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I'm playing Nier Replicant now. I've played the original on PS3 and it feels weird that the protagonist changed from a large, grumpy dad to a small sweet child taking care of his sister.
Completely changing the protagonist in the original release is such a weird choice. And had to have been so much extra work.
Really I didn't know that. Doesn't that completely change the story?
The change was done to appeal to western audiences who they said would like a gruff older man better, so it was only dialogue changes that were done all over to account for this. The story is otherwise the same. But yes the character dynamics change a lot when the hero goes from like a 15 year old to someone around 40.
I only just met Kaine, but she's a companion who is around 20 years old, which obviously makes a big difference whether she'll palling around with a teen or a much older man. I look forward to seeing how the writing her changes.
Oh right I do remember reading something about this. A similar situation but it wasn't get appeal to Western audience was Metal Gear Soild 2. The whole reason Raiden was created was because Hideo Kojima conducted a survey among Japanese women. One respondent said she was tired of the main characters being "stupid old men".