Why I Hate Japanese Games

[Professor S]

I was reading and watching the review for Devil May Cry 4, and as I was watching I actually became annoyed. The animations look great, as well as the graphics, and the gameplay looked solid as well. So I started thinking, why does this game physically agitate me? I thought about it for a while and it came to me.

I hate the style and writing of Japanese games, or more expressly, these kind of uber popular Japanese games. Stylistically, Japanese games like DMC4, RE series, etc. got stuck back in the mid 90's. It just seems to be the same spiky hair androgenous metrosexuals nancing about with oversized phallic swords embroiled in a spiderweb plot that makes no sense involving a great evil that will destroy the earth spirit. I swear if I hear Gaia one more godamn time in a game I'll swim to Japan and gut Sony's Square-Enix's president.

That brings me to the non-existant writing. Since FF7 its seems like everything is just a variation on the same theme with over emotional douchebags complaining about their feelings while the world burns around them. Lets also not forget that raely do these games have intelligible plots. At best they just create a losse excuse for the action to take place.

I've been finding that as I've gotten older I've unintentionally gravitated to Western designed game companies like BioWare, Codemasters, etc. Their more reality grounded style and storytelling just speaks to me more.

Anyone else feel this way or am I the only one?