The Most Annoying Parts of JRPGs

[HylianSwordsman]

Cerebralbore101 said:

HylianSwordsman said:
I hate it when JRPGs do creepy sexual shit for laughs or to please a certain demographic. Like it's possible to do sexual humor or fanservice in a tasteful way, but so many games really overdo it to the point that it's creepy. Sometimes the girl is way too young, other times it's just that over the top anime style fell-on-her-and-somehow-grabbed-her-boobs type of cringy, but I see it all the time and now that I'm not like, 14...it just feels weird. Some of these games are otherwise really cool and I'd like to share them with my girlfriend but I'd just be embarrassed to because of the weird parts.

Xenoblade 2 has a lot of that. But it also tends to blatantly parody that as well. The whole Tora and Poppi relationship just parodies that sort of thing the whole time. Tora is a Nopon, and shouldn't be attracted to humans, or robots, or maids. The fact that he is is just comedy gold. It works for the same reasons that Pepe Lepew and the cat works as comedy. It's a bit like the "Did you see that android in the lunchline?" skit from the Portal parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5cl131KTk Tora, and Portal Turrets aren't supposed to be sexual beings. So the fact that they are is hilarious. 

Right, it can be done tastefully, in a way that's actually funny. Haven't gotten around to playing XBC2 yet, it's sadly in my backlog, but I've heard it has a fair bit of the cringier parts as well. I've also heard it is an awesome game otherwise, so I'm sure I'll love it to pieces, but it might end up on the "awkward to play with girlfriend" pile.