Dalisclock said:
Johnny Novgorod said:
What do you know, he likes it. Is that a first for a JRPG?
He liked Earthbound, if that's worth anything.
As an aside(and maybe this needs a different thread) but do the Japanese have an obsession with High School dramas or something? I have somewhat a passing familarity with Anime but there seem to be a lot of High School centered Animes, and the ones that aren't usually have AUs that are.
From what I've read about on Japanese culture, my hypothesis on why Japan seems obsessed with high school in its media is because being an adult in Japan sucks. You work incredibly long hours, with many of those hours being unpaid, to the point where establishing friendships/relationships doesn't seem worthwhile since you'll have no time for those people anyways (and they won't have time for you either). High school is essentially that last moment of freedom before entering adulthood, so I can kinda see why it's an appealing setting.
This is shown quite bleaky in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, which actually features an almost all adult cast. The one teenage character asks what it's like being an adult, and the oldest party member (35) says "The pain never stops". Yep, I'd want to be in high school forever too if I got told that.