why are teenage and child protagonists with a mature storyline so uncommon in western games?

>>714277029 (OP)
What gaem?

>>714277097
brown dust 2
>>714277029 (OP)
>make game where crit is necessary
>make protagonist the only character in the game that can't crit
what were they thinking?

>>714277097
fecal particles 2

>>714277029 (OP)
In the past, it was because teens who play western games wanted to self-insert as older adults, while in Japan, they wanted to self-insert as a teen.

Nowadays, it’s because the Anglosphere is really iffy around depicting teenagers because they’re unreasonably terrified of sexualising them. Unlike in Japan, where sexualising teens is par for the course.

My theory about Japan idealizing youth is that the linear and rigid school>work>grave pipeline is so engraved in their brains that an adult having time to go on adventures breaks their suspension of disbelief.

>>714278464
My theory is that it's not your theory because I heard this parroted about 50 times now

>>714278464
Or the fact that japanese women heighten their voices to sound like little kids because culture.