A series that I like that has always introduced new main characters is Jojo's Bizarre adventure, every part of Jojo has a different main character than the last and none of them feel like replacements to each other
My gf hated ichiban but that's mostly because of the gameplay change. I personally loved it as the one playing the game, she'd watch me play them. The fact that he sees himself as an RPG hero and therefore it shapes his world to be like that is great. Where Kiryu is a serious brawler so it makes sense his world would be normal and beat em up. My favorite MC switch is kain and raziel. Although that may be cheating since we had a single game of Kain before soul reaver. I actually played blood omen after defiance so to me it was Raziel being the MC and then Kain joining in Defiance. Getting to see Kain as not just a villain but as something between a villain and an antihero.
I like twist(pun intended) in anime Gurren Lagann and it's impossible to talk about it without spoiling story. I think they made it more interesting because of that and they also changed overal tone of this anime from being very carefree to be more nuanced in the rest of the series.
Fighting games have to do this pretty often. Street Fighter has tried to do it a few times now and not really been successful. From 3 onwards each game tends to have a new Main Character. Alex in 3 is an odd case. I don’t think anyone really hates him or his game but when it came out not many knew it was even Street Fighter 3. Partly because of the arcade cabinet and partly because it only had Ryu and Ken. SF4 had Abel as the new protagonist who I’m sure has his fans but never took off. And 5 had Rashid who is the protagonist of the story but it’s really more of an ensemble of characters that it focuses on. Meanwhile SF6 has Luke front and center as the main character. Which he seems to be doing well because he was introduced earlier as a dlc character for 5 and has been met with mostly positive reception no doubt thanks to his voice actor hyping up the character and engaging with the fanbase. SNK are no strangers to new protagonist either. Their biggest fighting game series The King of Fights was a big crossover of their multiple series into one game. With an original character, Kyo and his friends filling the role of protagonists. But each arc would introduce new threats and new characters to take the lead while never replacing the old ones, at least not for long. Starting with K’(pronounced K Dash) as the new hero of the second saga. Then for the third saga they introduced Ash Crimson who was the new hero and the mysterious villain of the story. It’s very complicated and Ash is probably the most divisive of the heroes. And they have Shun'ei as the new hero of the current arc. They also have their Fatal Fury series that pulled off a new protagonist the best of any of these. They tried to replace the hero Terry Bogard before but it wouldn’t stick until they introduced Rock Howard. He wasn’t only Terry’s protégé he’s the son of the original main villain and Terry’s arch nemesis. Rick was a big hit among fans and while his big game was the last before the series went dormant it’s getting a new entry next year.
A series that I like that has always introduced new main characters is Jojo's Bizarre adventure, every part of Jojo has a different main character than the last and none of them feel like replacements to each other
I am so glad you brought up trunks
brother ill be honest; i thought this was a bigger channel (not trying to offend) with how high quality the editing is. keep it up dude!
Same! Then I saw 40 likes. On the way to great sucess
My gf hated ichiban but that's mostly because of the gameplay change. I personally loved it as the one playing the game, she'd watch me play them. The fact that he sees himself as an RPG hero and therefore it shapes his world to be like that is great. Where Kiryu is a serious brawler so it makes sense his world would be normal and beat em up.
My favorite MC switch is kain and raziel. Although that may be cheating since we had a single game of Kain before soul reaver. I actually played blood omen after defiance so to me it was Raziel being the MC and then Kain joining in Defiance. Getting to see Kain as not just a villain but as something between a villain and an antihero.
Jin from Tekken. And big boss was technically a new character that lots of people love now more than snake
I like twist(pun intended) in anime Gurren Lagann and it's impossible to talk about it without spoiling story. I think they made it more interesting because of that and they also changed overal tone of this anime from being very carefree to be more nuanced in the rest of the series.
Fighting games have to do this pretty often. Street Fighter has tried to do it a few times now and not really been successful. From 3 onwards each game tends to have a new Main Character. Alex in 3 is an odd case. I don’t think anyone really hates him or his game but when it came out not many knew it was even Street Fighter 3. Partly because of the arcade cabinet and partly because it only had Ryu and Ken. SF4 had Abel as the new protagonist who I’m sure has his fans but never took off. And 5 had Rashid who is the protagonist of the story but it’s really more of an ensemble of characters that it focuses on. Meanwhile SF6 has Luke front and center as the main character. Which he seems to be doing well because he was introduced earlier as a dlc character for 5 and has been met with mostly positive reception no doubt thanks to his voice actor hyping up the character and engaging with the fanbase.
SNK are no strangers to new protagonist either. Their biggest fighting game series The King of Fights was a big crossover of their multiple series into one game. With an original character, Kyo and his friends filling the role of protagonists. But each arc would introduce new threats and new characters to take the lead while never replacing the old ones, at least not for long. Starting with K’(pronounced K Dash) as the new hero of the second saga. Then for the third saga they introduced Ash Crimson who was the new hero and the mysterious villain of the story. It’s very complicated and Ash is probably the most divisive of the heroes. And they have Shun'ei as the new hero of the current arc.
They also have their Fatal Fury series that pulled off a new protagonist the best of any of these. They tried to replace the hero Terry Bogard before but it wouldn’t stick until they introduced Rock Howard. He wasn’t only Terry’s protégé he’s the son of the original main villain and Terry’s arch nemesis. Rick was a big hit among fans and while his big game was the last before the series went dormant it’s getting a new entry next year.
Dang was gonna goto bed but you dropped a new video so i know what i'm doing 🫡
Great video brother!
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