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So sometimes even when I have the energy and attention span to engage with some form of media it's still hard to get myself to do that with specific media. I think there's a part of me that wants to save the things I particularly like for when I'm doing better and can fully appreciate them, which is part of why things I really like and am in the middle of will sit untouched for months and I'll start new things I don't already have any investment in instead.

Which is a long way to say I started playing Bravely Default instead of any of the dozen games I'm already halfway through.

Mostly I like it. It really does capture that "what if Final Fantasy games had stuck to something more like the earlier ones instead of going off in whatever weird direction they did?" feeling, like a more modern version of one of the SNES games or something. You've got your crystals, you've got your four Warriors of Light, you've got your job system, you've got your airship, and so on.

The naming of characters and other things is completely absurd, sometimes in a good way and sometimes definitely not, but aside from that most stuff is pretty good but not quite great. Good enough that I latched onto it and put a dozen hours into it over a few days already and was showing no signs of slowing down.

Sadly it has failed the "JRPGs don't include creepy male characters" challenge (sadly somehow still impossible). It has both gone wronged and gone sexualed (although not remotely explicitly at least). And no, just like with Xenoblade Chronicles 2, having the female characters grumble and go "shut up, Wesley" at whoever's causing problems but then not having any other consequences or changes in their behavior does not fix anything.

It was mildly annoying when it was just Ringabel, who is sadly inescapable because he's one of the four main characters, and he is incapable of shutting up about girls. No one wants to hear about it, dude. None of the people you're talking to do, and I don't either. But now there's a creepy old man who we need to help us to progress the story who's even worse, and the cutscene where he and Ringabel were being like the PG version of creepy perverts was interminably long.

Everyone else in the party wanted both of them to shut up. I wanted both of them to shut up. Edea, who has anger issues and tends to go mrgrgr at things that piss her off and then stab them, has somehow not murdered either of them yet, which is wildly out of character from everything else I've seen of her so far.

I just want games to stop it with that already. It doesn't make them any better, and it's usually not even relevant to the character development or story or anything, just some weird personality trait they can't resist tacking on to one or two characters. At this point I just want a game that either has zero characters like that, or if they do exist they face immediate and harsh consequences. Like getting stabbed.

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