Playing through Tokyo Xanadu eX+ as I am, I find a thought occurring to me which I’ve pondered privately in the past, but never actually written anything about. So I thought I’d indulge those musings now.
The thought is, as it says in the headline, what would a “modern day urban RPG” with a primarily school-based setting look like if it was set in, say, the UK, where I’m from? I suspect it would be very different, and I’m surprised that no-one appears to have tried it up until this point.
Sure, there are western visual novels set in a school setting, but those are often heavily exaggerated or laden with insincerity and irony; there’s nothing delivered with a sense of genuine earnestness like Tokyo Xanadu eX+, the Persona series or Blue Reflection. And I think that’s a pity. So I’d like to talk about that a bit today.
