/v/ - Video Games

Sonic Adventure

>>15516498

well, that's technically true

Dragon Quest IV applies, unless you count the brief intro.

Mario Tennis GBC. You have to beat the entire single-player story mode to play as Mario.

Ys Origin.

>>15516489

Not exactly the last character to join (Piccolo and Gohan join later), but Goku comes into Attack of the Saiyans more than a bit late. Game starts off some time before the final tournament of Dragon Ball, and focuses the first four sections of the game on Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien training. Goku only shows up once the tournament itself is getting underway, and is obviously the protagonist of the story to anyone remotely familiar with Dragon Ball.

Wild Arms 3 also has individual character prologues, like the previous games of the series did. While Virginia is clearly the central character during the intro leading up to being able to pick which backstory to play through first, you can choose them in any order, and even choose to play hers last (which can actually make some of the later ones a tad harder, as items gathered in one backstory get carried into the others if memory serves, meaning you can stock up on berries and such in the easier ones to deal with the somewhat tougher ones, like Clive's prologue). Same for Rudy in WA1, as you can play Jack and Cecelia's prologues first (WA2 and ACF wouldn't count under your criteria, as they have more than just 3-4 playable characters, and the latter three characters in each don't have prologues).

>>15516489

Final Fantasy 6, but the characters all got equal development and it's more like Terra was the focus of the first half while everyone was the focus of the second half because to recruit them you had to go through little mini episodes to get them all back.

Actually making the last character you recruit the main is a bit hard as fuck to do.

Say you have 5 characters, the Hero, the Friend, the Girl, the Sage, and the Dark Knight. Hero picks up all the characters except for the 5th, and he confronts the party several times. Eventually, Dark Knight joins because he was betrayed by his employer and was tricked and they all go off the fight the big bad guy.

Hero, when confronted by the big bad guy, takes the bad guy's offer to join or is mind controlled/sealed, and the big bad uses a spell to blast the rest to the 4 corners of the earth now that the Hero is out of the picture. The Dark Knight, who despite being a former enemy has the biggest moral compass, travels the world to bring the party and becomes the center of it, the Hero when re-recruited now being an equal to the Dark Knight or something, and they both save the world.

The last person being the main character in other settings is easy enough, but with video games you have to subvert expectations pretty hard to make it believable.

Megaman X7

>>15516607

>X

>The main character of X7

Good joke anon.

>>15516517

Wasn't the intro added in the remakes?

>>15517092

It's a shame you never get to be Megaman Z on itself. Megaman ZX had so much potential. Shame it's all wasted and it goes nowhere.

>>15517092

>>15517092

>where you can be Megaman X and ZX

What? I don't remember that being available at the same time ever

I don't even remember there being a new game plus at all I just used a new save slot for the higher difficulties.

I do remember model OX being locked to people that had GBA megaman games and that was pretty jewish

>>15519000

You need to finish the game with both Vent and Aile to unlock model X any time you start the game again with either character. When you get the model ZX you'll keep the model X.

>>15519000

You unlocked model OX by beating the game and either beating Omega Zero or beating the 8 returning bosses from Z3 and Z4. Omega Zero is always in the game, so you can get OX regardless.

>>15516498

Gamma was a gud boi he dindu nuffin

>>15519110

he's talking about super sonic

>>15519020

Yeah, what this guy said; sorry, it's been a while since I've played through ZX

>>15519020

does beating the game on easy count? because I think I played it like this

>easy with vent

>normal with alie

>hard with vent

in that order might have gotten the two reversed but the point still stands

but when I played that hard game I didn't get to keep model X

>>15519081

I recall you had to beat Omega and the bosses behind Z3 and Z4 but Z3 and Z4 were behind doors that could only be opened when you have the proper GBA game in the GBA slot meaning you couldn't get OX without having the GBA game

Fire emblem

Sonic 06

>>15519248

>but when I played that hard game I didn't get to keep model X

Wouldn't know about easy because that's for pussies. But you have to have 2 "cleared" save spots for each character in order to unlock the X model.

>>15516597

Terra is barely focused on at all in FFVI other than very early on. She is barely even a character at all.

>>15519259

>he was already the protagonist of rondo of blood.

Didn't stop Soma from being the protagonist of two games.

Odin Sphere if I remember correctly

>>15516517

>>15516705

Yes, and even then the last character unlocked is not the hero, it's either the shitty dragon the the Sephiroth knockoff in the remakes.

>>15516509

>>15516498

>>15519110

But isn't the last character you unlock in SA is Metal?

Surprised no one said Chrono Trigger, considering Chrono is indeed the last character you recruit at the end of the game, given you resurrect him.

>>15520161

Ironically, Alucard is an unlockable character in Dawn of Sorrow + was made an Assist trophy in Smash. Not a full fledged fighter like Richter Belmont.

>>15516498

Fucking smartass.

>>15519196

That always seemed beyond fucked and I never understood how he ever became popular at all until I found out he actually starred in his own games.

Poor Richter.

>>15516699

>this post

>making sense

Kek joke m8

>>15520368

Metal was unlockable in DX only iirc, I think he was DLC for the dreamcast version

>>15517952

It's pretty obvious he'll be playable from some of the shield things that block you from being allowed to snag blue orb fragments and absolutely nothing you have on you will work. Even someone who never played Devil May Cry would figure out that someone had to be playable besides Nero and Dante is famous enough that he's a first guess.

>>15521080

Well yeah. It's not like this isn't the case for the other games listed. It's not like anyone would even believe there's a Dragon Ball game where you don't play as Goku, either.

>>15520377

But you don't play as him, do you?

>>15516498

Nigger.

>>15530794

You unlock A2 last though

While she may be best girl, she's not the main character

>>15530806

she becomes a main character, and without her 9S wouldn't go full Caim

>>15530806

It really comes down to how you define main character.

every new DMC game from here to eternity capcom shits out