I should clarify that I don't think it's because it's because Japan is amazingly progressive about gender. (After all, this is the game where he gets groped by :biden-troll: who exclaims "You're... a man?!)

It's just that Japanese character designers can go "I think the dudes can and should be pretty too"

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Every RPG protagonist must be Geraldo

    To be fair, I don't really care for the modern Square Enix house style. Everyone just looks like this weird uncanny valley doll person, though that's mostly due to the odd sort of unreal photorealism they go for