Hey hey,
So I'm checking out IGN on my usual Internet rounds, and see a preview for this game called "Record of Agarest War" for the 360. I watch the gameplay trailer there, and I'm like, "Oh wow, this looks like some kind of weird Fire Emblem offshoot. Sweet!"
Except apparently there's also a fair of amount of almost henati-like stuff, because there's a dating sim combined with it. So now I'm like ":/"
Basically, I LIKE the idea that the game is trying to do with it. And that is that your character can have a kid, and then THAT kid becomes the main character. That's a really interesting game mechanic. It adds a ton of depth with generations of characters and a changing world over time, and the idea of actually having the characters have relationships is always a fun thing IMO.
And I like the idea of a more realistic game just in terms of maturity. People have sex. It's a fact of life. I've always been annoyed when games sacrifice reality for lower maturity. It annoys me to no end when I'm playing a game, and a guy gets slashed by a sword or something, and there's no blood. I'm sorry, but that just destroys the illusion of the game for me. Same thing with sex.
Gah, I'm all over the place right now. Ok, let me put it in a different way.
My favourite book series ever, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, is the most realistic fantasy I've ever read. People die (even main characters, and actually quite a few, no one is safe). Rather badly too (i.e. very graphically sometimes). People have sex (and there are not just male-female relationships). These things are part of why I like it so much. It's realistic. It's not like I'm reading it FOR descriptive sex scenes or something, and it does generally gloss over the details, and doesn't describe TOO much, but it doesn't try to ignore it like so many other books do. Basically, I just find it much more mature, and much more realistic. People bleed/get arms chopped off, and people have sex. Deal with it.
So back to the game. This idea of actually having your characters have kids and stuff sounds interesting. But from the gameplay trailer I watched on the game's main NA site, I see that for some goddamn reason, they decided that if there's going to be sex in the game, why not make it something that people can then whack off to? I have no idea just how detailed they're going to be going into, but in the short trailer, there were definitely some hentai-like censored scenes of the main females characters.
This has now made me annoyed. Why couldn't they just do something like what Mass Effect did? Show that the characters ARE having sex etc., but don't fucking make it porn. ME showed a bit of ass and some side boob, and that was it. If I wanted to play some hentai game, I'll go get one. I'm here to play a strategy RPG that includes relationships, generational characters, and a lot of different character-based story-paths.
And it makes it even worse that the special edition comes with a boob-mousepad, a companion pillow, and a soundtrack who's cover includes a female character bending over suggestively. *rolls eyes*
So now I'm very torn. On the one hand, here's a game who's gameplay looks fun and overall good, and has several interesting features that I've never seen in a game. But most importantly, could overall have a more mature story which is something I would really like (rather than People-Don't-Bleed-and-Children-Magically-Come-From-Magic-Adventure-Quest-Fantasy-23/Eternal Sonata/Blue Dragon/almost every RPG ever).
And on the other hand I'll never be able to play this game out in the open without being condemned as a pervert by my roommates because apparently the only people that are supposed to play this are those that live alone and want to play Hentai Sex Adventure ($10 $100 says that that's an actual game) at the same time as Fire Emblem.
*sighs*
Thoughts?
- Kastom
