Why do most JRPGs have terrible writing?

Why have you come from /lit/? Return to writing.

Japs can't write. Even something like Hunger Games is above their pedigree.

Western writers recycle cliches because they sell, Japs just genuinely love the same shit over and over and would continue to produce it even if it didn't sell

video games are a shit medium for storytelling

it can't be helped.

All games have terrible writing.

>most
all
but there are some animes with good story

Its incredible how much more erotic that shorts is than tongs and other more popular female panties.

they don't. you're just a tranny who's offended by anything japanese because it doesn't cater to your fetishes or equally mentally ill politics.

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More like the best

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I will say JRPGs usually have better written villians. Western games go WAY overboard with "omg so melodramatically evil!" bullshit. Raping grandma, murdering children in the streets, using taxes for hookers and blow, kicking their dogs, just stupid shit that would never happen. It's completely unrealistic. JRPG villains tend to leave you feeling a moral dilemma because you kind of agree with the villain half the time.

yet there are so few good stories in vidya
rly makes u think

Here are a few:

1. The Japanese have always relied on aesthetics for narratives instead of learning how to convey ideas through language. In calligraphy classes, children are taught the form of kanji over function, despite its multitudinous usage cases.

2. Localization efforts are very clerical for Asian languages due to the ass-backwards grammar and general ambiguity present in many of them. Remember, the Japanese are extremely conservative, and so they dislike taking creative liberties and would regularly chew out EN localizers back in the day for going off the script... If they even gave them a script. That's how Ghost Stories got such a godlike dub.

3. Reliance on tropes. Whereas American games pride themselves on subverting the viewer's expectation, Japanese games wish to fulfill them. That is why LNs so intrinsically use isekai plots as far back as their inception. FALCOM is a great example of how this admittedly amateurish practice can bolster worldbuilding; make it easier to create a memorable ensemble cast; and engage players through a sincere and easy-to-parse plot.

4. Western assumptions about Japanese literacy. "The Tale of Genji" is not nearly as ubiquitous as we think it is. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is really only taught in bits and pieces, much like the Shinto religion. JP people like Oda Nobunaga the same way we romanticize Teddy Roosevelt or Genghis Khan (or, more fittingly, Lu Bu!). We like to think that salarymen only play mobage and dating sims because of the drudgery of work, but it really is because they prefer those games and do not wish to challenge themselves very much.

>TL;DR JRPGs have terrible writing because the Japanese do not have a tight grip on Kanji and its symbolic uses. Just as much as they rely on tropes as a crutch, visual storytelling is a major theme of these games. When the Western world got wind of these games, they were both held back by their notions of the Japanese, but also the companies themselves.

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Final Fantasy VII

because it's harder to do
one guy can write a book but it takes hundreds to make a game

Demon Souls
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 3

Why limit it to JRPGs? Most games have terrible writing.

You are mentioning a Ya book, kek, I guess westerners can't write either based on their ya shit

>because it's harder to do
thus ...

Hunger Game stolen lot of ideas from a japanese book named Battle Royale

As far as I know eastern languages convey ideas differently so having a bad translation really fucks up the whole thing.

pic related

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lol get shit on

Yes, difficult to imagine a throbbing cock with tongs

different culture = different writting style

true

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Silent hill quite literally shits on 99% of western game stories. Why can't the west write something at least above some shlock horror?

Thus it's a good storytelling medium but it takes skill and coordination to pull off effectively and is therefore rarer. You wouldn't say a diamond is a shit gem just because it's harder to obtain.

Those are all soulslike

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I want to spunk on the belly

Tenchu fatal shadows

>the stacy bloomers vs the virgin spats

That makes it a terrible medium for storytelling not a good one. If it's allegedly that difficult to convey your story.

threatened by USA and ((them)), unfortunately.

Because they’re written for teenager boys that subsist on a media diet of cartoons and shonen manga.