Dawntrail's MSQ story is a disaster and waste of potential. [full spoilers]

[Malthir]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed it.

Shameless padding because someone on the writing team really likes food. They really need an editor.

Doesn't alot of east asia have abit of a thing for food streams etc, maybe it's just a cultural thing that the western playerbase doesn't mesh with?

[Tsumdere]

Doesn't alot of east asia have abit of a thing for food streams etc, maybe it's just a cultural thing that the western playerbase doesn't mesh with?

Food streams are somewhat popular in the West as well. I'll watch some food streams occasionally myself.
Food is a staple part of everyone's' lives so it's totally fine to bring it up even in games without food. Western games do it too occasionally. But it feels like it has been excessive through EW-DT.

I can't think of any other Japanese games I've played that mention food so much.

[Malthir]

Food streams are somewhat popular in the West as well. I'll watch some food streams occasionally myself.
Food is a staple part of everyone's' lives so it's totally fine to bring it up even in games without food. Western games do it too occasionally. But it feels like it has been excessive through EW-DT.

I can't think of any other Japanese games I've played that mention food so much.

Fair enough, I just feel like in anime and Jrpgs food scenes are pretty common but maybe that's just my imagination.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Fair enough, I just feel like in anime and Jrpgs food scenes are pretty common but maybe that's just my imagination.

No you are right, it is. Especially in shonen stuff, there are almost always characters who are obsessed with food, usually the good / protagonist ones.

I think it's because having a healthy appetite is a positive trait typical of young people (the main audience of those products), and it denotes the ability to appreciate the little, mundane pleasures in life that make those characters relatable, simple and easy to understand - while making them "quirky".

It's definitely a stale trope in 2024.

[jameseoakes]

Fair enough, I just feel like in anime and Jrpgs food scenes are pretty common but maybe that's just my imagination.

Honestly the whole pacing mostly felt more anime than anything to me I don't think of many games where food scenes cut into the main narritive like 14 now does

[Eyrilona]

Honestly the whole pacing mostly felt more anime than anything to me I don't think of many games where food scenes cut into the main narritive like 14 now does

Is it? I thought the meme about anime pacing was that it was the fight scenes that get drawn out to last a full episode or more. If anything, DT writing seems to draw out the long shallow cutscenes of between the sparse moments of action.

[Tsumdere]

Fair enough, I just feel like in anime and Jrpgs food scenes are pretty common but maybe that's just my imagination.

I don't watch anime (except Dungeon Meshi but that doesn't count in this convo LOL) so I'm unfamiliar with anime tropes and can't speak on that.

I still can't think of many Japanese games that do food scenes as much though.