#is western / european (arthurian) settings.... basically the medieval ages and stuff

[rametarin]

Just JRPG ponderings

I think if I ever tried to make a game from the ground up in C, as an exercise in the language, it’d be an attempt to capture a classical era in a Japanese fantasy sphere and have a cowboy as an odd member.

Why?

Well. I think back to the RPGs for the NES and SNES and I remember even when they liked to set Japanese games in more generic sword&sorcery medieval stuff, it was usually with a vaguely European bend. With the occasional sudden appearance of, like, katanas and traditional/era similar Japanese stuff.

Just. That’s just how JRPGs do. It’s not ‘inaccurate,’ it’s not ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ It just IS.

Lupin the 3rd is basically Japanese fanfiction from a European character and they added a samurai to that that can cleave stuff apart. It’s like some western kid’s first katana user character, but it was actually done by an actual Japanese person.

So why not. The 3rd or 4th party member can be some misplaced cowboy. If not by trade, than in spirit. Just like how having dudes in samurai armor and wakazashis show up in what was previously established as pseudo-European, King Arthurian stories and aesthetics, and nobody even notices because it’s just so fun.

Just a dude with a pepperbox pistol, a trusty lasso, a tendency to ride complete stranger beasts around (like lassoing a giant bird, or a walrus, or a whale) and a fool’s luck. In a place that is culturally and aesthetically very medieval/dark ages Japan-Ish.

I’d consider it a loveletter, really. I always respected how Japan loved taking western fantasy and giving it their own touch. It’d be fun to take the same creative liberties with Japanese culture and fantasy.