Someone Tell Sony Fans Final Fantasy Isn't Their Series! (article)

[Jordahn]

jarrod said:

Jordahn said:

jarrod said:
R&C is definitely a massmarket game, the problem it that's it's targeted massmarket audience is mainly not on PS3 then gen...

I've always felt that the combination of stereotypical cute cartoony characters and some of the most violent non-explicit action is not a conventional combination.  Most people who love explosions probably could not get past the cartoony look while those who want a cartoony "safe" game probably find the violence "unsafe."  This is why I believe R&C is targeting a non-conventional userbase (i.e. not the masses).

Violent cartoons aren't massmarket?  What cave have you been living in the past 70 years?

HAHAHAHA!!! As an anime fan, I know where you're coming from.  Lots of violence there.  And, yes, there are violent western region cartoons as well.  But given the general western mentality, the initial outward appeal of R&C specificially seems to cater to the "kiddy" audience, but beneath it it goes way deeper than that.