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What do you think about faceless MC ?

Honestly, I don't like it. It's even disappointing that this has become more common in some novels...
I wouldn't see a problem if it was a MC without eyes and just with a bang going to where the eyes should be (as it used to be in some old otome games and visual novels), but now it's annoying to see the same thing in almost all current games.
I don't care about simple character design or anything like that, I just don't want to be bald, without eyebrows and eyes😭
 
I don't like faceless MCs, because it feels more fake I don't know, because it ruins the atmosphere and feels weird. 😭
 
I don't understand the point, I find it annoying, especially the male gaze hentai thing of not having eyes... It looks horrible (looking at voltage games, symkiss and gakuen alice ps2...)
 
I never minded it since many old otome games have faceless or at least no eyes, ik its to self insert urself but i dont really like those gray self insert ones….it have always been a joke to me mostly knowing it as yn, even if its here to self insert u i cant manage to do even if i want….
 
The type where they have no eyes & partially obscured faces? There's something kind of endearing about intentionally nondescript designs. I know they gave her eyes eventually, but I remember loving Starry Sky's Tsukiko even when she didn't have them, thinking she was so so lovely! Helps that I love bangs that are long enough they obscure the eyes; The King of Fighters' Shermie was always my girl, still is!

This applies to all kinds of media though; otome, BL, bishoujo games... in some way, I feel like I watched so much harem anime as a kid and in my teens that I ended up brainwashing myself into "getting" why the most plain slice-of-bread men are appealing. So I guess there's lots of different reasons I'm actually partial to these kinds of designs! As long as they're not greyed out and completely devoid of features! The only time those work is like... when they're tools to pull the story forward? A-la the RGU shadow girls.
 
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I hate it!! Especially since those types of mc usually have personality (sometimes even bad personalities... i see it in western indie games), which is much harder to tolerate than the mc's face. I love the mcs so much, a lot of the time, they're much cuter than even the lis, so i love looking at them, this just ruins it for me...
And even if it's the issue that mcs with canon design can make it harder to self insert, i don't see how it's not even harder to self insert as a gray alien?
I'm sorry,, i just feel like this choice ruins perfect cgs. Maybe even an eyeless mc is better than a completely gray one. I don't mind those mcs as much.
 
Arisara said:
So what do you think about faceless MC on CG? Do you like , dislike or don't care?
I never liked faceless MC without eyes.
But recently i saw many vn have grey , bald mc and some don't have even eyes,nose,lips .
It ruins the atmosphere for me. Looks scary and fun sometimes.
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It looks scary as heck like what in gods name is this 😭

Also on a psychological level, being uncomfortable by this is a good sign for OP or anyone else because that means consent/non verbal consent with intimacy/affection is important for you to perceive a good relationship. This shows through the MC's joy or interest, not always verbally.

To have none feels uncanny; the MC looks like an object. I'm sure this is for self inserts, but the price it carries is somewhat disturbing for games that rely on mutual consent and expression of love being the key ingredient to the otome (for the ones that aren't intended to be toxic otomes like Diabolik Lovers, that is).

The alternative reaction might be a bit unnerving if you think about it...
 
They sure have their own great things (like self insert for some people) but also because of that, their personality is pretty much...general?
 
Nah, I don't normally like it. Like, I need to know who I am playing as. That way, it's easy to understand and imagine the scenarios.
 
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