PaperBag_Sniper
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2013
- Messages
- 1,312
- Reaction score
- 1,079
- Points
- 113
- Steam
- PaperBag_Sniper
- XBL
- Bottomless Bag
The irony of the current culture of gaming is that a lot of things people say you can't do were done decades ago. Now stuff like canon gay relationships are still niche and it doesn't help that it also happened in a niche JRPG on the PS1 but it happened.
Funny enough I've never found Tatsuya's silence to be absolute. And I think he gets characterized by how others react to him because like you say, he's established in this town. Perhaps I'm having his personality from EP bleed over into my memory of IS but even if he was quiet I had an idea of his "voice" if that makes sense. I got his general demeanor from the opening scenes and acted according to what others pointed out about his past actions.
Plus the game does a good job of giving him flavor text options like in the Demon Negotiations that further contextualize him. But yeah, still silent.