So my take on this was more that the player character has potential for greatness but isn't there yet, like how an acorn can become a 45 meter tall tree that lives for a thousand years or maybe just get eaten by a squirrel. I don't think it's insane to say other characters are currently more powerful than the player character.
... Yeahhhhh they've already said the pcs normal just funky. His soul is "interesting" but not chosen one interesting, got radiation from a nuclear reactor interesting. The only character shown to actually have potential for a god killing anime arc is kas herself. The growth mentioned in the game is just it's soul getting more energy so kas can use it to (possibly) create a life. So if anything you're a delivery boy with a valuable package. Not courier 6 potential, but judging from the power of companions, average+. About as strong as the general of a hive, or possibly eventually a 9 tailed kitsune or whatever you sell your soul to.
They're locked into "power fantasy bad, I hate power fantasies" real hard, even though the kind of power fantasy I'd assume they're talking about is if after the first kas encounter you become the hulk or some such and don't take no for an answer, instead of through hard work and determination becoming a legendary warrior/mage/archer/healer/Casanova. Whether it's through priceless relics, skills, deals or a multitude of things, it stops becoming power fantasy prevention and becomes blatant handicapping.
With their current design they throw stuff like your character sacrificing any number of things for power and asking "was it worth it" away, they throw away being a legendary hero, able to be the vanguard and protect your friends, partners, lovers and children from darkness, and instead of any of that, they fall directly into the abyssal sister trope of "I did it through the power of friendship, I couldn't do anything without my friends".
There's a vast gulf between "immortal" and "average Joe", and generally anything with a aj protagonist has them and/or their party eventually do ludicrous stuff after starting from the bottom, not somehow fight demons throughout a continent, slap their way through a whole tree of rats, survive a rat in nom mode, sell their soul and obtain godlike powers, debate a god (and win) to obtain the long lost ability to absorb and mimic countless powers, get multiple relics to save you from the brink of death, duel demons for the weapons of gods (and obtain them), but then also have consistent stuff like leofric punching you, the den treating you like garbage, saying long term there's no possibility of ever standing against a god or, by extension, a wraith, and the devs actively limit anything your PC can do like you go from 1st grade to 6th, but looping back to the 5th grade because they have a vendetta. Anything dumb they'd prevent from a unchecked power fantasy is meaningless when they do the opposite extreme.
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You know if I'm being honest, isn't it deliberately harmful that TOBS writes Kitsunes this way while claiming they're based on Japanese culture? It's not indicative of how they act in the slightest and it could give people a negative/disturbing view of them.
They are soul suckers for sustenance that give sex in exchange(essentially making them whore bandits)
They are incredibly racist
All of them besides two are insufferable shitheads even disregarding the racism
They're doing the exact same thing Europeans did when colonizing the Americas.
Family dynamics are completely off of the Japanese norm.
Idk, just something I thought of. Why would you base your fictional race on a real one and then purposefully make them assholes? I can't tell if the dude idolizes the culture because he won't stop fucking trying to write about it or if he hates it because he writes it the way he does.
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That is the question, innit? Take kiyoko, she seems to be based on the "yamato nadeshiko" trope, the "ideal Japanese woman", but instead of being ride-or-die loyal or faithful she's what she is now. The den supposedly was based off tropes for a "weeb paradise", but you've got kohaku who fits the bill, and all the rest are pricks. It doesn't seem like something that focuses on the good but doesn't shy away from the bad of their culture, but something that focuses on the bad but sometimes chucks in something decent for a unknown reason.
