Cid from Final Fantasy 9 was 35?! THIS GUY, with the steely grey beard and glorious regal moustache?! He's clearly 20 years older than that!
As an adult I thought it was kind of funny that Steiner, at 33, is the designated doddering fussy comic relief old man of the party but this is just nuts.
I keep being confounded by the way Japanese media treats age. 6-21 is prime adventuring age, you're practically done at 25 and afterwards you should just shuffle off to a retirement home
Hey, at least Trails through Daybreak has an older JRPG main character. He's 24.
I do appreciate how the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series actually has older characters.
Wild Arms 1 for the PS1 had a leading man that was a clear adult at 27 which was nice (balanced out by the other two leads being 17 and 15, I guess)
I think what helps Yakuza is that it has a more realistic art style and has a non-school modern Japanese setting
What helps Yakuza is that it's pulling stuff from media marketed to adults lol.
Children could never understand Baka Mitai.
Only a lost child trapped in a 30-something year old body could.
Bro, that's how the first line of the song goes
Kiryu and Majima basically haven't aged at all, other than 0 where they look younger, I swear they look the same in every game. While playing Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, I had to constantly remind myself that Majima is canonically 60, lol.