I find Yoko to be funny more than annoying. I love making fun of her online.
I think Tidus is genuinely an example of culture clash in video game heroes. Ever since he was introduced western fans have talked about how whiny and goofy he is (which he IS, but he grows out of it during the game), but in Japanese popularity polls he's almost always in the like top 3 protagonists. He's got this japanese idol isekai'd to a fantasy world vibe which I assume didn't jive as much with as the more serious and brooding popular heroes like Cloud and Squall.
Whenever you have to ask that question after seeing it repeatedly, the answer is most likely "unfortunately, yes" at least for some part of their demographics. They are all over the place in Japanese games, and they even have town mascots IRL that are basically the same thing. Beats the loli stuff, which is the actual worst thing they insert into media randomly.
I considered mentioning this, but I've already gone over it before. Same goes for the new characters in Ys IX, though they are much less unlikable than XC2's cast (although both has a unquestioned classist bigot in their ranks).
I really liked the cast of XIII, with the exception of Vanille. Whoever gave that Voice Actor direction was wayyy off the mark.
Jack is so ridiculous that it comes full circle and makes him endearing to me again. He's my "So bad, it's good" character pick.
There's only one reason to keep Teddy in the party
I feel the opposite way: I kinda like her but not so much her design, she looks likes a female zoomer goth vergil
I was originally gonna mention Rex with a caveat that his character grew on me especially after Xenoblade 3, but this comment left be bewildered. I really don't remember any "classist" character in the party, it has been a while since I played the game but even then I surely would remember such attitude from the cast since the game has a pretty strong message about overcoming your origins and your past, it would be counter intuitive to have such character not learn their lesson in the game.
Alex Yiik is unintentionally likableNot characters that are meant to be hated, despised, or disagreed with, but dislikeable character's that we're meant to be enjoyed. Proper Scrappy-Doo's and Poochie's. I'll start with some low hanging fruit
Edit: I misremebered the quote from the dev, Alex was always meant to be unlikable. I'm still going to let it stand for conversations sake.
Indeed, a friend of mine's opinion on Rex made a 180° after he played 3. I must agree that with THE Picture and the dlc, my appreciation for him grew a lot
I feel like the people who hate the "JRPG boy" characters the loudest are often the ones who played the games when they were kids, so they didn't realize that they were them, and they just wanted to see the cool anime adults defeat evil (Ken from Persona 3 also comes to mind). Which is fair, it's just an observation I've made. 'Shinji's Law' strikes again.
What?
I CAN SEE THE GIGA CHAD CHEST!
Bad jrpg protagonists? many such cases "haha"
very well, you deserve the full image then
I hate Rean so f-ing much. Literally the reason i refuse to play Trail of games anymore.
Cold Steel IV was so good it made me drop the series
When the party is discussing the refugees, Zeke flies off the handle ranting about how these poor people don't deserve the help they are getting from Indol because they are a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings. (The rest of the party acts as if they didn't hear that.) This is yet another moment of the game's writer being hypocritical and self-contradictory, as ① Zeke himself got help from Indol without doing anything to earn it (but he's rich, so the wealthy master race "earns" it) and ② there is no sign of the refugees being lazy or bad people at any point. In fact, as the refugees increase later, we still see nothing wrong with them. Zeke, of course, learns nothing from this, just like how the rest of the cast learns nothing from their misdeeds, as the half-a**ed writer didn't even bother to tie up major plot holes.
