Post originally by Bloodcat at 2004-06-01 14:02:33
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Perhaps, but to me it really doesn't seem as if shoujo actually NEEDS a game. Its just a style of anime/manga. And really anime/manga is just a style in itself that (IMHO) doesn't really need game mechanics for anyhow, so why dig into the well even deeper and go into a subgenre?

To me it would be like dividing say. All Flesh Must Be Eaten into a bunch of seperate games covering John Romero movie zombies (social commentary and interpersonal conflicts), Return of the Living Dead zombies (action, comedy, ubergore, and boobies), and Resident Evil style zombies (inventory management, key collection, bad dialogue, and b movie biotech horrors) as an example.

It doesn't seem to make much sense. Doesn't BESM already cover anime in general?

Couldn't I easily make Mekton a shoujo game? Hell, I think there are mentions of even doing that in the back of the Mekton Zeta rulesbook!

I guess I just don't get it..