What are some JRPGs where the protagonist ISN'T under the age of 21? Other than Dragon Quest V I can't think of any
What are some JRPGs where the protagonist ISN'T under the age of 21? Other than Dragon Quest V I can't think of any
Jonathan Ward
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Adam Robinson
Bartz is 20, close enough? Cloud is 21
not sure about Maxim, but he's a married man.
Charles Reed
Japan is very youth centric. Most are 13 to 16 and won't find many protagonists above 28.
Landon Sullivan
Nier
Connor Diaz
Nier western release swapped out the under 18, youthful protagonist for a grizzled old grandpa to appeal over here.
Lucas Moore
but they didn't rewrite dialogues so it is completely worthless and shit
Levi Carter
Alright? Shit man, the thread asked for JRPGs with protagonists over the the age of 21.
Get that stick up your ass to loosen up a bit.
Kevin Parker
dq8 hero is 20 and has a job
Nolan Stewart
Vagrant Story.
Levi Barnes
Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean 1-2, Tactics/Ogre Battle, a few Tales games, Shiren, Radiant Historia.
Sega is actually really good on this department, their protags are almost all adults. Shining Force, Phantasy Star, Yakuza, and Valkyria Chronicles, well, if you count the ones that matter. The RPGs they had which had a teen doesn't devolve into teen drama and coming-of-age theme, either.
Joshua Campbell
>Radiant historia
Isn't Stocke 19?
Brandon Lee
Persona 2 : Eternal Punishment
Andrew Ramirez
Parasite Eve
Gabriel Hernandez
Lost Odyssey
Wyatt Fisher
Crono is a 38 year old divorcee living with his cat at his mother's house.
Adrian Hall
>Star Ocean
Protagonist is 19
>Tactics Ogre
Denam is 18
>Radiant Historia
Stocke is 19
>Tales
The only one I can think of is MAYBE Yuri because he's 21
Nicholas Collins
smt strange journey is in a no-kid environment entirely
Jonathan Morgan
How old are Raidou and Hardcore Hacker?
Logan Phillips
What are some JRPGs where the protagonist IS under the age of 11?
Jaxon White
dragon quest V
Hudson Bennett
raidou is a high schooler hence the costume, haven't played soul hackers
Bentley Brown
By the end of the game he's still physically only 20. He starts arc 2 at 16 years old and is 20 by the time he's married and reaches Gotha. After getting stoned by rapehorse and his kids grow up without him, he's 28 at the end but only chronologically.
Jayden Hill
Cuck horse
Unironically, Monster Girl Quest (Paradox).
Jason Lee
DQV MC is pgysically younger than 21 though.
He was a statue for 8 years
Michael Hall
>20 by the time he's married and reaches Gotha.
4 years?
I thought it was 2 at best.
Lucas Myers
Yes but then that gets into arguments over what actually constitutes age and shit
I would argue he's still over 20 because he was forced to watch all of that shit and experience the passage of time, even if biologically that isn't the case
Aiden Hill
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Maya is at the ripe old age of 23.
Jose Thompson
Yuri from Shadow Hearts is 24 yo.
Also Lenneth from VP isn't specified, but she clearly resembles an adult woman.
Jace Cruz
In SMT: Strange Journey the protagonist and all npcs are trained soldiers with experience in combat and such.
Luis Russell
Valvatorez from Disgaea 4, even discounting the 2500 year old demon nonsense. His equivalent human age would be about 25.
Chase King
Overlord Zetta from Makai Kingdom. I don't think his age in human years is ever explicitly mentioned but he says he's well over 30,000 years old. If I could put it to numbers I'd say he's anywhere from late 30s to early 40s personality wise. Even gets a kid later which starts his new character arc as a dad.
Thomas Nguyen
young protags are better for self insert and older people don't care about self insert (hopefully)
Angel Lee
Not everyone wants to self insert when they read a story, having a memorable main character can do wonders for a game.
Brandon Cook
Then it's the best of both worlds isn't it?
Carson Morgan
>Valkyria Chronicles, well, if you count the ones that matter
Welkin is literally a student
William Wilson
I thought Shiren was a teenager.
Eli Campbell
Arle, probably better known for her appearance in Puyo Puyo, is 5 years old in Madou Monogatari: Hanamaru Daiyouchi Enji
Christian Carter
Speak for yourself, when I was a teen I self inserted as Auron in FFX because he was the coolest motherfucker in the game.
Levi Fisher
Lost Odyssey
Elijah Martin
Yuri from Tales of Vesperia
Nathaniel Richardson
Fortune Summoners
Levi Brown
Actually it's because from a writing and narrative standpoint, youth has the most potential for growth, development, and character shaping. I guy from 10 - 30 is going to undergo radical changes both mentally and physically (usually for the better) compared to a guy from 40-60. Youth just holds way more possibilities compared to the aged
Austin White
Yurikago no Sora, she's 8
Jonathan Sullivan
>JRPG character is 30 years old
>Fully gray hair
Brandon Cook
Trails in the Sky the 3rd
Isaac Green
Xenoblade 2: Torna the Golden Country
>27 years old
Colton Richardson
Xenosaga trilogy
>23 years old
Gabriel Wright
Cloud Strife is 21
Lightning is 21
Cecil Harvey is 20 in FFIV, but 37 in After Years
Kaim is 1,000+ years old by the time Lost Odyssey begins. Actually acts like an immortal being who is just tired and wants to die.
Suikoden III has 3 main protagonists: Of the three, Chris is 22 and Geddoe is 112 but looks and acts like he's in his 40's.
Dart Feld from Legend of Dragoon is 23
Shion (The actual main protagonist of Xenosags, not KOS-MOS) is 22/23
Elma, the actual protagonist of XBCX, is 29
Dominic Hill
DBZ is literally my favorite artstyle but why doesn't Toriyama get shit for everything looking exactly the same? Back in the DB days he still had a distinct artstyle but it wasn't that unique that it literally looked like the same series for his other works.
Oliver Hill
Main characters are all over 1000 years old
Daniel Green
I mean come on, that's fucking Yamcha when he had the same short hair but with his long hair attached, who also looks like mad Goku.
Jacob Powell
delete this ;_;
Jaxson Peterson
Looks like your average japanese teenager.
Brody Robinson
emulator when?
Bentley Parker
If I just change the age but not any of the dialogue reflecting that and the dialogue is still written like a 19 year old then it's pointless.
The character is still 19 regardless of the translation change
Wyatt Clark
>What are some JRPGs where the protagonist ISN'T under the age of 21? Other than Dragon Quest V I can't think of any
Uhm, sweetie...
>Even though after the second timeshift the hero is 24, he is still physically 16 because he never aged while he was turned to stone.
Ayden Edwards
>thread with 55 replies
>barely anyone can come up with any valid examples of what the OP is asking for
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF JRPGS
Nathan Butler
I also think the party chat says it takes 2 years between getting de-statue'd and rescuing your waifu. Which really doesn't make much sense. Sure, you're going by boat, but at most, you're travelling by boat to get the helmet and then to your mom's hometown, at which point you get a fucking FLYING CARPET. At that point, shit's solved within 2 weeks at most.
Nolan Lopez
>Establish him as the most badass overlord in the nisverse, period
>Turn him into Tsunderedad in order for him to still be the most badass, but able to fuction as a cameo
It truly was the most perfect move.
Daniel Wilson
>cecil was younger than cloud
what the hell?
Eli Perry
Pic related is considered to be 16.
Daniel Lewis
>what the hell?
Why would this surprise you considering the rest of the series? Celes in FF6 for example is a high-ranking general...who is 18 years old. Balthier was appointed as a judge at the age of 16.
Carson Stewart
which RPG lets me play as a protagonist that keeps getting shafted at every turn, but gets to have a happy ending
Jeremiah Myers
>this is considered 16 in Japan
How? Even if he went through 10 years of slave labor he looks way too bulky to be 16. He looks more like he's in his early 20s
Samuel Lewis
When the fuck did Yamcha join ISIS and get his own video game?
Ethan Wood
>he never worked out as a child
Jayden Nguyen
>How? Even if he went through 10 years of slave labor he looks way too bulky to be 16. He looks more like he's in his early 20s
Daniel Hall
Celes was a magical superbaby who was made to be a general since birth.
Cecil was an orphan who was told to learn how to use a magical dark sword that not just anyone could wield who at least worked his way up into the position of captain of the Red Wings, and he was in an actual grown-up drama-free relationship with Rosa from beginning to end with absolutely none of the will-they-won't-they bullshit that japan just LOVES injecting into relationships between adolescents.
Easton Anderson
>Stocke is 19
Finding out Stocke was 19 was what made me stop paying attention to character ages in anything made by nips. Stocke should be at minimum 27.
Japanese aging conventions are fucked, it feels like they just assign all their protagonists an an age between 14 and 19 at random.
Yuri is 21. Judith is fucking 19, I thought at first she'd be like a classic elf, hundreds of years old -- but for all her mature confidence she's a teenager and younger than Yuri at that.
And everyone, including himself, talks about Raven like he's 50 but he's only 35.
Daniel Green
>Finding out Stocke was 19 was what made me stop paying attention to character ages in anything made by nips. Stocke should be at minimum 27.
Why? His personality throughout the game is pretty bland and doesn't exactly show any age-old wisdom.
He also starts the game at level 1.
Wyatt Rodriguez
I thought Judith was 25/26, wtf
Raven I knew about, for some reason in Japan being 30 = old man
Jose Perry
umm bro, games are supposed to be for kids, what are you implying
Xavier Howard
>Crono is a 38 year old divorcee living with his cat at his mother's house.
kek
Caleb Russell
There is a reason why 30 is the sweet spot for becoming a wizard
Benjamin Harris
He's 25 in sh2
Jace Long
what game on the bottom left.
Robert Taylor
Planetescape tournament
Caleb Martinez
It's Planetscape Tournament you dope
Aiden Carter
Definitely at least one Pokemon game
Adrian Torres
The Mario and Luigi games. Both are 26 years old.
Robert Reyes
Liam King
Why is it Xeno with female protagonists (all in their 20s), are always better than Xeno with male protagonists (all in their teens)?
Lincoln Martinez
Planetescape Tournament, you newfag
Nathan Gray
I can see why you might call him bland, Stocke is written as being competent, calm and mature which aren't exactly bombastic personality traits. It's not really about having wisdom to impart per se (which I would say he does, he's a pretty knowledgeable and competent spy even at level 1) but rather the general calming effect that happens to people after exiting young adulthood.
I'd say Stocke acts like someone in their late 20's far more than someone in their late teens.
It's bizarre, everything about her screams "sexy older woman" character. I just ignore Japanese ages now.
Jeremiah Kelly
no fucking way dude. theyre both like 40
Luis Ross
Josiah Stewart
Another one.
Henry Jones
Is it fair to consider DLC it's own separate Jrpg?
Parker Fisher
>no fucking way dude
You are right, they aren't 26.
They are 25.
google.com
Gavin Reed
Jayden Smith
>DLC
Torna's a 20+ (50 for completionists) hour long prequel that's more of a standalone game than a DLC. It's as long as plenty of fourth gen and fifth gen JRPGs.
Jacob Hall
I'm pretty sure the youngest protagonists are 11.
Joshua Peterson
thinking about it, Asellus had a hard life
Jose Rivera
Yuri, Ludger and Velvet are all adults aren't they?