WesternGamer1000

If he uses the lightning cannon, I might actually get the game. Hey, if they can give Jill or Chris from RE a move set, the Helgast shouldn't be that hard.

I still don't see where you are coming from, in most video games the pretty boy character is far and few between, except in the jrpg style where they dominate. Not all of gamers who play a majority of japanese games are anime obsessed japanophiles. I don't know what a meme is, but since LP was not nearly as popular or critically received as DR, you really cannot make that comparison.

If you are going there, then Just Cause 2. Published by Square.

It wasn't developed by Square. They just published it. Besides, not all of the people who buy Japanese games need pretty boy protagonists.

BTW Frank West is probably the favorite Japanese character of the West, so there you go.

I feel this question has been beaten to death, but most of the japanophiles seem to live in their own fantasy world.

Old Man = original design

Younger Nier = redesigned for Japanese audience because older Nier failed the panel, hence the name REPLICANT, as in replica.

However, congrats on finally getting your way

I know, no androgynous teenagers contemplating slitting their wrists while wondering if that mesh shirt would fit them. Must be a horrible game.

And I thought MMO players had no life

Reuben, stop being a little douchebag. First, look at Western sales, SE above all wants to make money. Look at one of the most popular Japanese characters in the West, Frank West. Not some pretty-boy. If you want to argue about SE decision of not thinking about their installed fanbase in the West, by all means go ahead. But by making a statement that is not correct, you look like a little Wapanese twat.