Who else hates mary sue vydia characters?
A character in a childrens game cant even have enough depth to be a Mary Sue, you dumbass.
gary stu
>rean
>mary sue
don't hate on the Mean Rean Machine, bro
>Rean
>literally gets shat on across FOUR FUCKING GAMES
>mary sue
Sometimes I forget how retarded people who visit this site are.
He's basically the deconstruction of a generic LN protagonist where he gets all these crazy powers yet loses almost EVERY FUCKING TIME because the entire world including his own dad is out to fuck him over.
why does he wear the mask?
speaking of Geralt "I have no discernable character or development over the course of a half dozen novels and three video games" of Rivia
Shit writers shouldn't be rewarded, ESPECIALLY when they work or are associated with fucking bottom tier movies, or whateve the Hell you want to otherwise pretend The Witcher series of quote unquote video games are.
It's suppose to help you self-insert.
He isn't a mary sue because he repeatedly fucks everything up, which the story actually points out. That said he also isn't much of a character in general, he's pretty fucking boring.
Having a bonafide harem and having the story being focused on him at the expense of other characters' development is still Gary Stu tier, faggot
Geralt had development, he was essentially forced to admit he wasn't the neutral impassive bastard initial impressions portrayed him as and that the family he pretended to hate was basically his real family. It's easy to forget because of the games, where he's generally far more affable, but book Geralt was kind of a whiny cunt.
>Gary Stu tier
the fuck does this even mean, jesus
It means that user is jealous of a fictional character.
>t. Crow
>has a harem
>can turn super saiyan
>pilot a mech
>son of the most important person in the nation
>It's suppose to help you self-insert.
sure
Literally a Mary Sue but male
There is no "tier" of mary sue. You either are one or you aren't, you mean he's a shit tier character. Sure, I can agree with that. He basically ticks off almost every generic harem protagonist box there is. But again that doesn't make him a mary sue, since Rean HAS flaws, even if they aren't all that interesting, and the story actually shows this to be true, rather than the usual mary sue "he is so perfect, it is such a flaw" or "his flaw is X, but we will never show it" approach.
>since Rean HAS flaws
Rean only has "flaws" in function of Falcom's need of milking the retarded Kiseki fanbase so they conveniently make him fuck up things so they can end more and more games in cliffhangers for sequel baits.
Yes but he still has actual flaws, even if they exist both poorly written and written specifically for the need to keep milking a series that had a chance to be good and then kept going until it was beyond fucking stupid.
Might be the best place to ask: Is trails of cold steel 1 a good place to start for getting into the series? I got gifted the game a while back but never got around to playing it
Yeah, there will be very little references that you could miss like a name drop but the game is mostly disconnected from the other ones so go ahead
Start with Trails in the Sky
Rean literally keeps losing first 3 games
*clink* *clink* *clink*
Fuck Rean and fuck Kekseki.
The Trails series is nothing but cash grab after cash grab of generic shounen games that seem original because by the time anyone cared to localize them the tropes that permeate them will belong to the last decade.
Filled with padding, each single story has to be split in multiple entries because whoever who's in charge of adapting jump shounen latest issue into a mediocre rpg with mechanics stolen straight out of Persona and Fire Emblem believes that you can't do a good plot without having to traverse each modern fantasy town over and over again with a goody two shoes master of all trades protagonist, his harem of dumb bimbos who apport nothing and his background male companions.
A sad corpse of a series with even a more tragic fanbase, who cling to it either because they think niche is cool and because they spend years learning japanese just to play a literal fan fiction of a retard who played Suikoden and Xenogears and thought that a long lasting series in the same universe would be good, with political themes as understood by a 11 year old and mechas. Literally everything that Kekseki ever did has done by literally any other jrpg series, but better and ten years before. It's no wonder why this shitshow ranks lower than the most cancerous weeb games in japan, even when the series has become a shittier parody of itself.
You're not setting him up for success when characters from before CS1 start showing up and have actual relevance to the plot.
How is Rean a Mary Sue/Gary Stu when he loses 3 games in a row....?
And how is he less of a Sue/Stu than Lloyd who is smarter than Rean, has a harem as big as Rean's, is a genius detective, child prodigy, etc...? Only difference is Rean is stronger.
based Johnny
>TFW REAN is the one considered a "generic shonen hero" even though ESTELLE actually has the "generic shonen hero" personality
hmmmm.........Really makes you think.............
okay Alisa, you can fuck off now you jealous tsundere bitch
Rean can't even get together with anyone except Crow, he's a fucking gay failure. Estelle can at least have the graces of a canon relationship, now.
>Estelle grew up wanting her brother's dick
OH NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!
No but it's okay because they're not blood-related, see
>Rean
>Gary Stu
Are you trying to summon Chiplock? The end of the first game shows that Rean isn't exactly a badass.
I have no idea what game that is, but that is legitimately a 10/10 character design.
>2 games later