Jack Of Owls
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So she talks like that all through the game, every time she whacks at an enemy? Seriously? Oooookaaaaay 
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Forspoken - action-RPG from Square Enix with cringe protagonist
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Isekai can offer a convenient means of explaining an alien setting to the player, since the player-character himself needs to have everything explained to him (e.g. Final Fantasy X). It does seem a pointless contrivance, however, if the setting is a more-or-less standard fantasy one, as the player can be expected to be familiar with fantasy tropes. Also, a similar function can be provided simply by having the PC be an outsider to the exact geography, as in Morrowind.
Isekai is as American as Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars and Abraham Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar.
Baron Dupek
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Yeah, pirated copy is in torrent sites now
Denuvo supposedly work on subscription basis, it has now roughly been 6 months since it was released so I guess that was how long SE subbed to Denuvo initially
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At least something funny came out of this miserable shitheap.
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Isekais aren't about being trapped in a game but about someone finding themselves transported (or reincarnated or taking over the body of someone else) in another world, almost always quite different from their own world (which also almost always is the same or very similar to ours).
As far as games go, this actually has been used a bunch of times in games already outside of Japanese works, even in the 90s (or actually 80s - IIRC the Avatar in some Ultima games is clearly summoned from the "modern" world). It also doesn't have to be about a fantasy world, e.g. Toonstruck and Comix Zone are 90s games about authors transported to their own worlds (which is a topic that more recent Japanese isekai novels have used too).
Tyranicon
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Someone hit the nail on the head earlier in the thread when they mentioned that Isekais are blatant power fantasies that are almost impossible to fuck up.
All you need is to follow this formula:
1. Regular lame-ass protagonist dude
2. Multiple big-tittied hotties for his harem
3. Generic demon lord/bad guy plot
It's almost like the audience for this is overwhelmingly men or something. Perhaps when you sink millions of dollars into a project, you should do some basic market research.
Kek.
All you need is to follow this formula:
1. Regular lame-ass protagonist dude
2. Multiple big-tittied hotties for his harem
3. Generic demon lord/bad guy plot
It's almost like the audience for this is overwhelmingly men or something. Perhaps when you sink millions of dollars into a project, you should do some basic market research.
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I've read a bunch of isekai novels and while there are a lot of them like you describe, those are by far the novels i find most boring and bland :-P.
Tyranicon
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They're that way by design. Most media no longer tries to sell purely by quality, but instead because of guaranteed audiences and the right amount of marketing spend.
It's why a lot of things are shit.
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wasn't she a trust fund baby to begin with
Mr. Chickin' is very unhappy about this, Frey.
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She probably is sucking something these days.
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