Thread 717899170

Why Magical Girls as a genre never had any real presence in vidya?
It's mostly licensed games or cheap, not particularly ambitious stuff.

How would you make it work for a videogame?

Good question. I don't know either, doubt that there is no overlap between people who would watch these shows and people who play games.

>>717899965
What happens at 13-15 exactly?

>>717900336
You get into edgy shit instead to appear mature and start separating yourself from what you actually liked. Then you slowly but surely realize this is retarded as fuck and your kid self was right all along... well, for people who don't permanently get stuck into that mindset anyway.

The real sin and shame is that there are almost no good Pretty Cure games.

>>717899170 (OP)
persona style life sim but as an otome game

>>717899170 (OP)
Magicami next question
Magical girls are for fags

>>717899170 (OP)
Women don't play video games other than mobile slop and sims

>>717900834
Good. There are enough male fans as it is.

>>717900834
I would prefer a completely original franchise.

>>717900848
Persona style could work for sure. Hell it's almost designed for it.

>>717900909
>women
>implying

Because despite outward appearances the superhero part is not that important in magical girl shows. These shows are designed to appeal to girls and thus are mostly about problems that appeal to girls, like helping stray animals, taking care of little kids, solving relationship problems and so on so forth. If you want older magical girl shows, like, way older, you'll see that magical ability is used to solve those crises directly. After Sailor Moon the dramatization shifted to fighting some kind of monster but it's really just a sublimation of the episodic conflict, usually connected to the emotional drama de jure, and after beating the monster the problem somehow gets resolved. Therefore it can be concluded that magical girl genre is less about fighting and conquest and more about girly drama which is not that suitable for video games unless you're, oh I dunno, fucking Persona?

>>717901073
>and thus are mostly about problems that appeal to girls, like helping stray animals, taking care of little kids, solving relationship problems and so on so forth

>>717901270
Not an argument
>b-but Madoka
Madoka is a misery fetish garbage for otaku

>>717901327
nta but you do know that madoka wasnt even close to the first "edgy" magical girl series right? You're just proving anon right by thinking every magical girl show is just precure derivatives

>>717901073
There are shows where the focus is absolutely the superhero part and the girls are designed for a male audience, it's a pretty wide genre.

>>717901327
No, not M*doka. That's a magical show franchise in the same way DDLC is a romance novel. Which is to say, it's focused on being meta, not in the "4th wall break" way but in the "deconstruction" sense.

>>717899170 (OP)
There's been a few

>>717901417
I've probably watched more magical girl shows than you did, friend
Most pedos here on this board haven't even gone through the entire CCS

>>717901073
You would think Persona would open the floodgates, and you wouldn't be the only one either since Gust tried something similar with Blue Reflection, at least in style.

>>717900336
Puberty.

>>717901874
Apparently you just can't like magical girls during your puberty.
Or you aren't going to admit how many "sessions" you wasted to the sailor senshis

Usagi(anime version) is one of the most entertaining MCs ever.

>>717899170 (OP)
Because magical girls are a fad.

>>717899170 (OP)
Magical Girl stuff is pretty short on actual fighting.
>"Toshikun totally likes you, Keiko!"
>20 minutes of giggling and a scene at the beach
>monster shows up
>"By the power of the love goddess, I will avenge all broken hearts!"
>5 minute transformation scene
>"Love buster attack!"
>monster turns into sparkles
>"You did it again, Keiko! You're so pretty and cool!"

>>717899170 (OP)
the magia exedra gacha game is fun if you like madoka magica and like honkai star rail's general combat system. it's tweaked a bit, but i like the tweaks. and it doesn't have the overworld, but i didn't find that added much in HSR anyway.

but i do agree with you OP. it's an underutilized set&setting for vidya gaems

>>717903758
But there are many games where combat takes the backseat to VN-like segments. Often JRPGs.

>>717903801
I dislike Madoka, but more importantly
>gacha
Even worse.

>>717903930
>But there are many games where combat takes the backseat to VN-like segments. Often JRPGs.
And this would be trash. As the zoomers call it, movieslop.

>>717903981
One of them is amongst the most popular series out there, you realize.

>>717903930
>I dislike Madoka
OP was not a faggot for once.

>>717904015
And popularity defines quality, which is why Taylor Swift is the best musical artist (and she's truly an artist) ever.

>>717904074
No, but it certainly does define whether it would be a good idea to sell something along the lines of it.

open wide anon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3101040/_/

I liked Yumemi Dreamer

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>>717904134
>This game features mature content that may not be suitable for all audiences, including:
fantasy/mild violence; blood; violent acts; accidental death; bodily injury; corpses; violence description; killing; torture; detailed deaths; depiction of suicide; depiction of violence acts; fear; psychological horror; mild swearing; unapproved use of medical drugs.
Ah yes, magical girls.
Jesus christ, and there are people who say M*doka did not ruin the genre.

>>717899170 (OP)
>How would you make it work for a videogame?
A Princess Maker kind of game could work.

>>717899170 (OP)
>How would you make it work for a videogame?
mahou shoujo xcom, but openxcom style, not the new one
>demonic forces invade earth
>assemble a squad of magical girls to defend the earth
>xcom-style difficulty, mahous frequently die
>destructible environments
>geoscape and battlescape, basebuilding etc
>dreadful and opressing atmosphere

there, i made a perfect MS game

>>717904195
I like how they made sure to include "mild swearing".

>>717904316
An association that only ever recruits little girls to fight sounds hilarious as a premise.

Make a Cutey Honey action game.

>>717904453
>An association that only ever recruits little girls to fight sounds hilarious as a premise.
anon that's almost every mahou shoujo
also wait till you hear about Upotte