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    Default Protagonists that age during the game

    Ocarina of Time

    Breath of Fire III

    Tales of Graces f

    What are some games you've played where the heroes age during the journey of the game?

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    Dragon Quest V. Probably the absolute best example of this, actually.

    Fable

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    Rune Factory 2, maybe? The second half of the game you play as your kid.

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    Fallout 3 - From the cradle to the grave... quite literally actually...

    Lufia 2 - To a lesser extent, you start as a teenager and become an adult with a family halfway through the game.

    SaGa Frontier 2 - Multiple times actually with different characters.

    Suikoden Tactics - Start as a kid and grow up to be an obnoxious immortal teen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
    Suikoden Tactics - Start as a kid and grow up to be an obnoxious immortal teen.
    Hah, that's right.

    I love this one, actually. It was my first Suikoden game and it made me want to go out and get IV so I could spend more time with these characters.

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    Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Last of Us - granted in both of these all of the aging happens very early in the game, but there is some gameplay pre-aging.

    Beyond: Two Souls

    Assassin's Creed 2 and 3

    Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War (which by the way has a pretty dark story for that era of JRPGs), Fire Emblem Three Houses

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    Final Fantasy XV!

    Tales of Berseria to a small extent...

    Yakuza.

    Of course, most of these are simple one off time-skips with some narrative impact but little mechanical change. I'd be really interested in seeing games with aging more meaningfully aligned with the mechanics. A few games have done this over the course of a series, like Metal Gear Solid, but few do so during the span of one game.

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    The only ones I can think of is Ocarina of Time and Beyond Two Soul.

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    Breath of Fire II also

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    In Fable 2, age is a consequence of a particular path along the light. However, as my ex-girlfriend pointed out, the aesthetics could be easily reversed (first with hairdye which is unrealistically permanent). I chose the evil path just to be a deck (I think it was sacrificing someone? A woman or a child, I don't remember)
    Also, don't you go from being adolescents to teenagers in Lunar?
    Jack: How do you know?

    Will: It's more of a feeling really.

    Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?

    Will: No.

    If Demolition Man were remade today

    Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
    Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
    Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
    Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
    Huxley: NO!
    Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
    Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
    Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
    Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
    Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
    Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
    Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
    Huxley: You need to leave, John.
    Spartan: But Huxley.
    Huxley: Get out!
    Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.

    By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mercen-X View Post
    Also, don't you go from being adolescents to teenagers in Lunar?
    Adolescent is basically just another word for teenager. The stage between childhood and adulthood where puberty happens.

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    When they came out? Like, none.

    When I spent most of my time playing it? FFX, I was 16 at the time, Rikku's 15, Yuna's 17.

    Sadly, I'll never really get to experience that again because I'm about to turn 28, and that means I'm a hag by Japan's standards.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    Ryo ages in Shenmue - just very, very slowly.

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    If we want to get super technical about slow aging, probably just about every protagonist ages during the course of the game, if not explicitly, except for rare instances like Suikoden protagonists with true runes.

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