What are some games where the main character is having genuine

Crash bandicoot is always grinning that shit faced grin

Most games by Platinum and Clover.

Oh, and Grandia. That game truly feels like an adventure.

Devil May Cry
Resident Evil 4
Vanquish
Bayonetta

strangely enough all these games were made by a small set of developers who were friends and worked together at one time.

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>>377064071
Kid Icarus Uprising.

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>>377064071
Sonic Unleashed Day stages. Something about Sonic's "WHOO!" when he boosts really adds to the thrill.

>>377064071
>>377065146
I fucking love this. I wish more devs would do this. This shit is a thousand times more enjoyable than the grim, edgy protagonist we usually get these days.

>>377066725
>>377066725
Agreed

>>377064071
damn I miss viewtiful joe

>>377067086
I mean, don't get me wrong, not every game needs to have a protagonist who's just having fun and not really giving a shit, as that wouldn't serve the narrative for, say, a horror game, or a game with a serious, effective, dramatic story. But it should definitely be more common than it is.

No More Heroes

>>377065368
I liked that about the day stages as well. Sonic sounded like he was legit enjoying himself.

>>377067625
Also, this was one thing I liked about what little we saw of Scalebound. People complained about Drew, but he just seemed like a bro who just happened to control a giant dragon and was having fun with himself as he was in some fantasy world, even if he did look like some combination between Nero and Donte.

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>>377067338
>Tfw Capcom will never, ever let Platinum work on any of the Clover IPs AND won't do anything good with them themselves either

>>377067678
Nah, Travis Touchdown is an edgelord and an asshole. But that's okay because he was actually likable, memorable, charming, and charismatic in his own way unlike so many other angry asshole video game protagonists.

Old TMNT games. Doesn't matter of you get your ass kicked, you take a "Rest" and get right back up, all the while cutting up with shit like "Who put the lights out?" or "MY TOE MY TOE!" Not to mention cool but rude dudes otherwise.

>>377065146
I'd probably buy the game again for the switch if it ever came out.
Hades was amazing
Pit was too
and of course there's fucking ALIENS OUT OF NOWHERE

Doom 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGjA0O-PsI

>>377066725
I thought after Kid Icarus Uprising we were starting to see a 180 in protagonists, in they had been all coldsteel the edgelord types, and now we were going to get purehearted goody twoshoes types.
Didn't really happen though.

>>377069841
Wonderful 101 had a good one too.

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>>377069841
>we were going to get purehearted goody twoshoes types
Well, we did get the purest of goody twoshoes.

>>377065368
>Sonic boom
The fuck was that? I don't remember it.

>>377069841
>>377069990
>>377070029
Fucking wish we got more protagonists like Wonder Red too. As a moralfag, it's nice to see someone who genuinely wants to do the right thing selflessly. Not only that, but he was such a breath of fresh air too. Every protagonist has to be edgy nowadays and then there's this motherfucker.

>>377065368
lol wtf

>>377070029
Wonder Red is too fucking good
>The strong stand tall! The weak kneel! Such is the law of the universe!
>You're wrong, the truly strong help the weak stand!
>>377070227
I'm completely with you. There isn't anything wrong with the good guy that just wants to help. Fuck, his story tied into the moral of W101 really well too.

>>377070180
How the fuck do you not remember the disaster that triggered CWC to yell SONIC'S ARMS AREN'T BLUE? It even has a TV show and everything.

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>>377065146
>Again today I will go soaring through the sky!

>My enemies I'll dish 'em up in a stir-fry!

>Gracious goddess of light watches from up above!

>At dinnertime I always show the cook some love!


>Palutena: What are you singing?

>Pit: Just a little victory song I made up!

He was a cringy little faggot but that just made him more lovable. He was always genuinely happy to be doing his job

I really got that impression from Sonic in Unleashed in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrPUHTcrHY

>>377070356
I meant the EEnE pic attached to it. I don't recognize that.

>>377070180
If you talking about the picture, it's from a music video that aired on CN sometimes.
If you're talking about the game, it was Sonic re-imagined as a sitcom style cartoon with tie-in games that were super terrible. It has some okay gags, but it's most of the time pretty bland.

>>377065368
"WOO, FEELIN GOOD!"

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>>377070372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl5s7iz_pvU

>>377070324
>Wonder Red had the perfect opportunity to get revenge on Laambo for killing his father at the baseball stadium near the beginning of the game
>decided to help the civilians instead
>kept his composure the entire time
Fuck Wonder Red was too good for this world.

>>377070492
From a CN music video, a "Groovy" I believe they were called.

I think those designs specifically though were based on really early interpretations of the characters.

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This jolly fellow

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>>377070227
>As a moralfag,
Nintendo needs to go back to Advance Wars, its one of the only games where a moralfag actually faces consequences for their stupid actions.

>>377069739
I was not ready for the smile this put on my face

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>>377070594
He even offered him to surrender peacefully, same as every other enemies.
Of course this is what happened when he refused but hey, he has to assume the consequences of his poor decisions.

>>377068109
He's still having fun, retard.

>>377070856
I need to play Days of Ruin. It's been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years now.

They really do need to make a new AW though.

>>377070856
As if Will wasn't a moralfag too.

But yeah, I miss that series.

>>377067625
>Horror game where the protagonist is with a group that slowly gets picked off
>He sees nothing weird in everything going on and keeps making the worst decisions
I kinda want to see this now.

>>377070918
Wonderful 101 is probably the best piece of superhero media I've consumed within the last 5 years or so. It was so fucking good and I liked that the heroes were actually HEROES. They were good guys, especially Wonder Red.

>>377070937
While he's fighting strong opponents maybe, but the game pretty much rubs it in your face that he's a lonely, bitter, angry nerd.

>>377070918
>>377065146
That's the thing though, what makes these goody-goodies so enjoyable is that when it comes down to brass tax, they're brutally competent.

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>>377070918

>>377064071
I wish I had a friend like joe

>>377064071
Saint's Row IV

>>377067625
I want a horror game where the protagonist is having the time of his life, but in a purehearted way,

>>377071190
I'd like to see this as well.

I halfway take back what I said. I forgot that I've had ideas for games before where it might actually be a legitimately scary, creepy horror game, but the protagonists could have fun with it still, like entering a dark room and audibly saying, "Nope," or actively discussing horror tropes and how cliched or trite it might be.

>walk into room with corpses inside
>see writing on the wall with blood
>protagonist says something to the effect of, "They really took the time to write all this?"

>>377071398
>purehearted way
Explain.

>>377064071
Joe's voice surprised me when I first heard it, then I realised that he's supposed to sound like a big dweeb and it really grew on me.

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jacob always a bro

>>377071334
Need more cool toku bros in games.

>>377071463
>Explain.
I don't know. Something like not a case where a guy is happy people are dying around him, but he's a giant fan of horror mystery novels, and he just can't contain his excitement that he's finally a part of one.
Something like that.

>>377070516
>>377070837
Link to this video? I only remember "My Best Friend Plank".

>>377071820
I think it was called Growing Day?

>>377064071
Gene.

>>377071757
I had an idea like this once, but with a female protagonist, only it would gradually gravitate towards being more of a serious horror game.

>>377071879
I found it under "The Incredible Shrinking Day".
I guess there's a reason I forgot this one.

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No More Heroes
Persona 5, according to ingame dialogue
Hotline Miami 2's Fans genuinely enjoy being vigilantes. Dunno if Pardo likes creating his crimes, though, or if Martin Brown enjoys his movies too much.
Payday Series (Wait for June; the last p2p dlc is releasing then and they're also making one big GOTY version for ~40$ USD)

>>377071964
I LOVE IT

>>377072532
Everyone in God Hand was enjoying themselves to the fullest.

>>377072793
Especially the voice actors
>YOU GOTTA LOTTA NERVE SAYIN THAT TO ME CABRON

>>377072941
the dialog is fucking supreme

>>377071363
Everyone in TF2 loves their job except Demoman.

>>377073431
Demoman's fine with his job, it's just that his mom doesn't think he's working hard enough

>>377070180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUPCb8Uu_0w

>>377073773
I'M NOT COMING IN ANYMORE

>>377071756

fuck I'd pay so much money for a game with Dan the Man in it.

>>377074318
KAMI DA

Devil May Cry 1,3,4
Bayonetta 1, 2
Viewtiful Joe 1,2,DS
No More Heroes 2 (Protag is killing shit just to get laid)
Atelier games, since they're basically a Slice of Life anime with cute girls

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>>377071757
I can see this. A referential horror game mocking tropes and displaying self-awareness at first with a turning point where the protagonist's whimsy at the horror slips slowly into sadism through the early games, and another flip later on where guilt and terror break through, climaxing the character into full broken panic

Using the existing tropes and self-awareness to develop an uneasiness as the character changes, himself making claims or observations that arent congruent with common horror or with what the player knows in the game

>>377070856
The balance in DoR was great after Dual Strike but it still had a lot of issues that I'm sad will never be fixed by a sequel. So close yet so far

>>377075260
You. I like you.

Too bad horror games are halfway dead and the only ones left are all twitch walking simulators these days.

Gex

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Yeah he's not a protagonist in the typical sense because you can choose whether he's good for bad, but Delsin does enjoy the idea of having powers. Same with Cole, he also seemed to enjoy the powers he was given, but had more an air of responsibility about it.

>>377073773
That's a pretty good song.
Nu-CN is a mistake.