TrickWithAKnife wrote:
Yes, I'll skip it if I see anything Japanese is a WiP topic, except in special cases, like the creator is Japanese themselves. Doesn't matter how wonderful the art or writing is, I'm not going to play a game that annoys me. Obviously the creator(s) didn't read this thread.
It kinda reminds me of my friends and family reacting to anime, they don't really care if the story is freaking amazing or if the art is more realistic, it still annoys them. (Like this:
My mother: "Anime? That's high-pitched japanese girls with weird haircolours and samurai dudes with the deepest voices in the world"
My brother: "THAT'S JAPANESE!!! Everything japanese is the same and it sucks!"
My friends: "Anime? Ewww"
Me from 2 years ago: "Anime is annoying, everyone has weird hairstyles and girls have high-pitched and annoying voices and the guys are all serious with deep voices, and weird ability names (Well, I never watched anime at that time, I just listened to my mother XD))
Yeah everyone that I know except one or two friends of mine don't watch anime because they think it's annoying and it's japanese, which is a weird language for them, they never really watched it, but they still say it sucks. I'm not saying it's the same thing(Because you already played those kinds of games (Right?) that's already a difference), but it really reminded me of this.
TrickWithAKnife wrote:
Seeing people who have never stepped foot in Japan for lomger than three days trying to give history lessons on Japan seems really insulting.
If the same thing happened here(In my country, but I'm tired of refering it that way), I'd be laughing my ass off , like when a stranger told me that serving shrimps at weddings was traditionally from my country, I was like "Where the hell did you get that from??", while laughing (Wow I'm reminiscing a lot XD).
TrickWithAKnife wrote:
But lets face it, most games with Japanese characters here are just throwing them in because that's what they like, and they don't really care that it annoys some people.
Yeah, I agree with that. Like how I put magic because I like it, I wouldn't care if someone wanted spaceships, I DON'T LIKE THEM!! (Ooops, I'm sorry, that was rude XD)Which is why most people start with the "I know this is totally cliché but....", because they kind of know that, but they're taking that risk. I'm actually pretty neutral with japanese high school themes, I don't love them but I don't hate them either, I'm more of a fantasy and comedy person, so I look at them. I normally don't look at works in progress that explicitly say [Drama] and [Tragedy] without [Comedy] on them, since I don't like depressing things.
TrickWithAKnife wrote:
Everyone thinks their project is special. Perhaps they are special. I won't know because I just saw one of your characters is Misa Yagami, cute but naive high school student, thought "another damn weeaboo making another damn high school dating game" and closed the topic forever.
Yeah, like how I would think my project is special because I'm attached to it. They think they're special because it's
their stories, the stories they made and came-up with that they're proud of (I think, I can't really speak for people, everyone has their reasons). But yeah, unfortunatly, for us players/readers, it's not the same thing, it's just "another story/game", so it never sounds as original. I'd close that dating game if it said "X is the cannon pairing" (Well, I wouldn't plays X's route at least)or "There is only one obtainable", no matter how good it would be too, I just hate that A LOT (It surprises me I haven't put that in this thread, it's the thing I hate the most), if you have more obtainable characters don't make a cannon pairing!!! (Ooops, off-topic again <.<). But really, I say taste that vegetable before saying you don't like it, what sucks about this example is that in your situation, those vegetables are the same as every other vegetable, but your parents are saying that it's a special, delicious vegetable that might look like any other from the outside (Wow, the weirdest example ever XD). But I think about it this way "Ok...I'll eat those vegetables because my parents worked really hard making them, and their cooking can't be the same as everyone else's so if it tastes bad I'll tell them to cook better next time! I might throw some in the trash while they aren't looking though......" (What the hell XD).