I thank you again for this information and the idea about the story.
It is not so much partly dark stories or brutish passages or dark aspects to stories that bother me as games which have such themes dominate within them. Until Jewel Knights and then Gibo the trend seemed to be games that might have dark themes within, such as XC2, but still have very a majority of consensual non dark themes and sex scenes.
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Then with Jewel Knights in which most of the sex is forced and basically rape, through an jackass of main character and Gibo in which there is sort of brainwashing and a form of psychological torture, once again by a jackass of a main character, going on in a way that allows the sex scenes to me at least many times seem forced if not psychically, psychologically, the trend seemed to change. I was not sure if this is a “new” trend in the games they were bringing over for translation or if it was just that in at least the two out of the three newest released games, that I have played parts of, such themes and brutish passages seemed to begin to dominate the plot lines, even if it was a possible redeemable ending or gradual change of the main characters attitude and actions toward the end of the game, the overall game still seemed dark and left a bad taste at times. Even the “good endings” in Gibo left a bad taste and those in Jewel Knights did not change my dislike for the main character expect for one ending in which the roles are sort of reversed, the Jewel Amethyst ending.
So within Doushin since you have indicated that there are in fact, at least some good or at the very least well done redeemable endings, then this is not a game that seems like one I would consider, based on what you have said, to be as dark as the others mentioned.
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Once more I thank you for the information you have provided. It does sound like another to add to the long term list, for whenever it might be released in English, hopefully sometime before XC3 if Peach Princess is the one working on this game.
[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 07-13-2004).]