prokopetz:
thewonko:
prokopetz:
The thing about JRPGs is that you can’t really shitpost about them. No matter what mockery of the genre you come up with, there’s a very good chance it’s been done – unironically, even. Like, I could say “oh, yeah, that’s the one where giant babies from outer space show up and eat everybody at the end”, and not only is that not the most off-the-wall JRPG ending ever, it’s arguably not even the weirdest ending you can get in that particular game.
No, it’s true. I just finished one where the final boss was a triangle who tries to delete your save file
Always a classic.
And heck, even a lot of the more mainstream titles are pretty out there if you think about it.
Like the one where you beat Azathoth by praying to yourself.
Or the one where a shrine maiden’s imaginary boyfriend fights his giant monster dad.
Or the one where the fate of the world is decided by a duel to the death between a terminally ill fourteen-year-old girl and the actual
Frédéric Chopin.
What about the game where you commit suicide, and then fight a gun-lizard who serves as a metaphor for the cycle of violence?
Or the one where a baseball player and a talking cat fight over a light switch?
Or, getting more mainstream, the one where the final boss is a giant snowflake that embodies the collective negativity of everyone in the world. It’s not even sentient. It’s just a snowflake.