Audience-Alienating Premise: Difference between revisions

* ''Yo-Kai Watch'' status as a semi-flop in the West despite being a [[Cash Cow Franchise]] in Japan is due to this, as the game goes into the concept of [[Yokai]] everywhere, even in a mundane modern city. Since "Yokai" is a very Japanese concept difficult to culturally translate, players outside that cultural sphere cannot see the appeal.

* ''Custer's Revenge''. You know, that pornographic [[Atari 2600]] game about the General Custer raping a tied up Native American woman? Leaving besides that fact that the blocky graphics are not particularly arousing, the very repetitive and oudated mechanics (even for its era) and the horrifically racist and misogynist premise made it unsuitable for anything with normal sensibilities. Whatever numbers it sold, it was more due to [[Bile Fascination]] than anything else.

* The whole ''[[Drakengard]]'' franchise. [[Crapsack World]] doesn't even '''begin''' to start to describe its universe, and in two of the games you end up playing straight up [[Villain Protagonist]]s. Your party members can include cannibals, serial murderers, sex maniacs, and pedophiles. And in case you are actually interested to play to follow the story, the gameplay is monotonous and grinding, and the controls for flying the dragons is probably one of the worst in the industry. Despite being the shinning example of [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]], it has an small cove of fans who love the game precisely ''because'' is extremely different to the ''[[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasies]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest]]s'' and ''[[Tales (series)|Tales of...]]'' that dominate the JRPG landscape