Any JRPGs with a protagonist older than 13...

Any JRPGs with a protagonist older than 13? Do nips collectively hate their lives so much that they can only live vicariously through adolescent characters?

JRPG protagonists are kids because youth is the last time Japanese people had any semblance of individuality. Once you graduate high school, you integrate into the well-oiled machine of Japanese society and forget that they ever had dreams or ambitions beyond "work for your superiors until you die."

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If they were adults that would require them to write a decent story. If they're a kid they can start immature or naive and grow along with the plot. The hero's journey.

Yeah my favourite characters are grizzled old men who are also written just as poorly

You're right this is much more engaging

Wouldn't it just be easier to have custom character creation, or give that character a full helm helmet?

>Any JRPGs with a protagonist older than 13?
Most of the Final Fantasy series

Fair point. Most JRPG protagonists are bland as fuck and clearly meant to be self-inserts. So why don't more of them use character creation?

>tfw they turned space marine fujoshit
why did they completely remove his cheekbones?

he has proper nutrition now

Yeah, sure

Yeah. Like every Final Fantasy game, your OP image, etc, etc.

Damn this image looks horrible at least post a better one.

Who is Cloud Strife or Leon Squall?

Because most JRPGs use them heavily for marketing and merchandising, and having a non-common design ruins that.

I feel like people who make posts like these don't actually play many JRPGs and just parrot what old, jaded Final Fantasy autists said on message boards more than a decade ago.

Japanese games reserve grizzled old veterans as the token wise party member who, for all their years of experience, are the same level as you

They turned him into true doomguy, Haven you see the new neutral ending?

Just use the "default" character for that.

>leon squall
???

I guess they don't want to stray from having to figure out how to make a story about a bunch of randoms. The want someone to star the game, like Cloud for example.

Eh, whatever. One of my favorite JRPG let me create my own team and the reboot somehow made my team of girls turn into lesbians.

Japan is massively insecure about age, full story at 11.

>Leon Squall
Did you just watch your boyfriend play Kingdom Hearts and suddenly you think you know everything about Final Fantasy?

LOL!!!
>mfw it's a jrpg so you're 13 and the church is evil so you kill god with the power of love
look guys I totally btfo those weebs with my knowledge of many jrpgs!!! do i fit in yet?

Leon Squallhart is my favorite character in Finishing Figment

You mean a JRPG with adult protagonists? There are tons.
But don't excepect bearded, experienced men to be protagonists, because "why would an older man being in an adventure in first place instead of working to provide for his family?"

A japanese guy literally said this to me when I asked him the same question you made.

Because for some dumbfuck reason they have the literal interns doing it

>le church is evilllllll well tipped!!! :DDDD
Look here faggot, the Catholic church, in the 14th century, literally declared poverty a heresy because ascetic monks were becoming more popular with peasants than the Church was. They travelled from village to village healing people, reading to people (very, very important considering literally 95% of people couldn't fucking read) and being otherwise bros to the common folk. The church then started torturing the monks and excommunicating them.
>it is better to be feared than to be loved

The problem here is that in Japan the transition from adult to grandpa happens around 22.

I've never played Strange Journey or any SMT game other than the Persona games and the first five minutes of nocturne on an em (too choppy on my toaster), should I get the Redux as my first SMT game? Want to get 4 and 4A too

>the reboot somehow made my team of girls turn into lesbians.
Could you please articulate on this. I don't remember anything like this in this game

The common agreement is that you should start in Nocturne or 4. (4A is a direct sequel and spoils some plot points of 4)

First of all Persona != SMT

Second, you should give atelast a try to SMTIV and SMTIV final but if you really wanna try play DeSu and then wait for redux or play Nocturne->IV->IV: and wait for Redux

Large amounts JRPG released in the 6th gen going down had older protagonists. Fun fact though, dudes that aren't even 17 saving the world was started on the playstation 1. We've just lived long enough to see the natural conclusion.

IV would be the best starting point for SMT if you can't play nocturne. You can move on to IVA afterwards if you'd like but the story is much more tropey

You just posted one

4 is usually a good starting point for various reasons (easiest most of the time, QoL, similar settings to SMT1 and 2)
The start can be brutal though

It been awhile. It has to do with the Thread of Fate system where it helps your character do combos or something. Off combat, it show whats their relationship with one of the character in the team.

a good starting point would be 4A since it has all of the gameplay of 4A but better and with less pacing issues.

Way to miss the entire fucking point of my post just so you could tip your crucifix at me.

I would revommend starting with Nocturne because IV:A's gameplay would ruin the experience.