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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3764557" data-attributes="member: 18">Good correction, because that is generally true. However, whilst it's easy to mock, and funny, I don't think it's quite fair. D&D's style of unrealistic fantasy has traditionally be slower-paced, with a bit more gravitas than your average fantasy anime (which is often extremely humour-oriented, like Ruin Explorers and Slayers), and features a lot less jumping around and shrieking, and a lot more quietly creeping down corridors and so on. It's definately a different style. People who complain about "realism", though, are definately a little confused. This game has hit points, for god's sake!I'm not sure NGE is as pretentious as it comes across to Western eyes, because all the Biblical stuff is comparable to us doing, I dunno, Greek Gods, and I wonder how seriously Japanese anime viewers took it - I doubt it was remotely as serious as some anime-fans over here. Lain is a pretentious, but it gets away with it by being high quality in a way that .//hack isn't - Don't get me wrong, I wanted to like .//hack, but it was just too faux-deep and teenage-angsty. At least NGE's teenage angst is genuinely stuff that stresses kids out (like Kenshi's sexual orientation confusion).</blockquote>