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Poil posted:What is it about these kind of games and utterly unlikable male main characters? Not just the blandness you're supposed to self project onto, if you are sad enough, but whatever personality there is is always so terrible. Fulfilling the male geek audience's fantasy of being "cool and confident" (i.e. an rear end in a top hat)? Writers' unexamined conceptions of what an "ideal man" that all the girls would be into is like?
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Another possibility is that VN writers think making male VN protagonists dimestore horndog jerks, yet still pathetic in some way (lack of real assertiveness, awkwardness with social contact etc.), makes them more relatable by way of making them flawed. Or it's the writer themself projecting their own frustrations, insecurities, and repressed antisocial feelings onto the protagonist. Or it's something completely different. There's many possible factors. With regards to DDLC specifically, though, I can't really say what's in play (then again, barring the writers opening up about their writing process, one can only probe so far). The protagonist is certainly a weak link in the writing, that's for sure. However, we aren't that far in the game; perhaps the protagonist is the way he is so there can be a basis for development later on. (Then again, that's not very common in this genre.)
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