A while back I made a thread about how Dragon Quest XI just wasn't the game for me. Well low and behold, I decided to just stick with it and I've ended up quite liking it! One of the biggest reasons is because of Sylvando.
With LGBT representation being so incredibly limited in video games – especially Japanese video games (to the point where I consider Vanille and Fang gay just to beef up our numbers) – it's wonderful to see a gay character play a major role in a video game and being unapologetic about who he is. That being said...I can't help but wonder if Sylvando isn't actually meant to be a proud gay man, but rather an offensive caricature of what people think gay men act like.
There's this gray space between the creator's intention and the fans' interpretation that I'm operating in, where I recognize Sylvando as someone who isn't ashamed of who they are, but that's because I'm also a queer person and am playing through that perspective. On the other hand, to the average person, Sylvando might just be a total joke that is just a conglomeration of every gay stereotype you could possibly think of wrapped into one.
I also can't help but think of that DQXI composer who is also homophobic...who I realize (obviously) has no input on the character design, but the proximity of that mess and this character makes my brain do funky things.
OP needs to be range-banned for reposting ERA threads every day.
Jordan Murphy
>strong, confident, dependable, amiable >mocking
he's flamboyant but the game clearly paints him in a very positive light, I don't see how you interpret that as mockery
Joshua Sanders
Sylvando is based.
Cameron Lopez
It's a Japanese trope to act like a flamboyant meterosexual that sleeps with tons of women and Dragon Quest loves their tropes. You are a fucking retard of the highest degree but I'm also a retard because this is clearly a copyasta.
John Robinson
Flamboyant straight and potentially bi dude is a classic character archetype especially in japan.
What you're experiencing is called cognitive dissonance and your brain is doing backflips to try to fit a square peg into a round hole because you've been inundated with leftist globohomo propaganda your whole life.
Fact is nobody really cares about gay people because they're a hyper minority that doesn't breed and thus has no impact on the future of civilization. In modern times, many millennials and gen Xers were tricked into waving their right to a normal healthy life. They were sold a false philosophy that leaves people hedonistic and nihilistic.
So is he like the peacock lad from One Piece who outwardly is flamboyant but actually a based character?
Benjamin Ortiz
Bon Clay is based but he's super gay
Jason Lewis
Just got him in my party and he is based as fuck
Lucas Cook
This.
The concept of flamboyant straight guy has been totally lost in modern media.
Instead we get Buzzfeed articles like "Is Bugs Bunny Gay?"
Easton Murphy
>i didnt like game but there's a gay in it so i like it
you people are lost
Angel Lee
Japs are just very bad at portraying homosexuality They literally cannot write a male homosexual that doesn't act like a predatory fruit.
Jaxon Miller
>In modern times, many millennials and gen Xers were tricked into waving their right to a normal healthy life. They were sold a false philosophy that leaves people hedonistic and nihilistic.
Which tumblr or game site did you copypaste this from?
Benjamin Fisher
I hope this copypasta if not fuck off back to tumblr or reddit you mentally ill faggot
Mason Jenkins
Gay people ARE a joke. Get over it.
Christian Jenkins
Pridefags behave exactly this way. That's how they write themselves too. See Marvel comics. They lack self awareness or lack any sense of shame when they behave like stereotypes.
I think the west is the one with delusions about homosexuality. Japs simply do not well on it because it isn't very interesting. Just an extension of the pervert trope.
He's gay if you want him to be. That's how to properly write a character in general. Leave it up to the imagination rather than broadcast it or cram it down the throat.
Chase Foster
He's fabulous.
Jeremiah Wright
They better make the PC version have the features added in S
Changing names is fucking retarded in localizations, but changing Sylvia's name was the most retarded.
William Russell
>read thread >it bothers them that he is portrayed as goofy sometimes and not always serious Do they hate fun?
Benjamin Morales
Yea Forums >man, I hate gay propaganda in my videogames Yea Forums >wtf, how am I supposed to know he's gay if they never showed him sucking a dude off? you serious nigga?
He's vulnerable to puff puffs while the women aren't.
Nicholas Ward
Gays have no place in vidya
William Hughes
Neither do straights, we don't need any form of sexuality in games.
Jason Ross
I think that's the point maybe? From what I heard Nipponese homos like to give themselves girl names or some shit, but I dunno know
Aaron Watson
That's the point, you retard. His original actual name in jap was Goliath.
Jace Carter
So basically he has no character at all. What great writing.
Jonathan Roberts
>sucking cocks is a character trait
based
Sebastian James
but he is gay, not a tranny
Colton Ward
>doesn't breed and thus has no impact on the future
i hear this line of thinking from poltard npcs 24/7 and i still cannot wrap my head around how someone could believe something so retarded
Parker Ward
Nigga, tell Horii that. That's how he wrote him before the localization team fucked everything up yet again. I seriously want to burn honeywood's bible and then get the localization team banned from ever working on anything again. Square doesn't pull this shit with FF, because they know sales would tank.
Zachary Johnson
Nice picture of something that only existed for 20 years
Elijah Hill
Maybe he is trans in the japanese version.
Ryder Reyes
The fuck kind of sexless fantasy world do you live in?
This is a thread copy pasted directly from tranny far left shithole, Resetera. How and why this doesn't lead to instant perma ban is beyond me.
Logan Martin
You know the next game is gonna have a town that exclusively speaks in haikus too.
Michael Brown
Did you just realize that now? They don't even let people discuss in their forums, either masturbate over a single opnion or you get banned
Julian Ortiz
>that doesn't breed and thus has no impact on the future of civilization yikes. /pol/lets actually believe this
Gavin Wright
That seems to be their rule since the DQ3 trash localization. Japan-related towns speak in haikus. Thankfully they aren't too common in DQ, but it's just so fucking stupid.
Noah Young
nobody fucking cares faggot, if fags were made fun of more they'd probably be less faggy.
Noah Brown
I thought I'd hate sylvando but his queerishness really grows on you
Nigger that's not even the OP's real opinion. That was literally copypasting a trannyera post.
Joseph Bailey
Sylvando is never confirmed gay, NOR straight, he is flamboyant, but if you belive that this characteristic makes him gay, then your having prejudice against gay people and putting a label on them. This is what differentiates the eastern way of thinking to the western way of thinking.
In moonland, fujos can freely believe ANYONE is gay until proven otherwise (an even then sometimes) and ship them with other people, while normal people can ship him othe females and see him as "normal" aka straight
In the western view, THERE MUST BE AN ANSWER, so people see what they want and starting arguing against other people that their view is canon, using completely unrelated stuff (he is flamboyant, he is CLEARLY gay) to use as evidence. There is also the problem with the whole "representation" nonsense as if a gay character show up in a piece of fictional media this is A BIG STEP to the movement.
tldr; REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, GTFO YOU NORMALFAG GAIJINS, YOU ARE RUINING MY COMFY WEEB GAME!
Dominic Myers
Hisoka is a predatory fruit but he's a great character.
