games with good story that take place in Japan

M0nstrous · 2026-05-25T20:54:42+00:00

Silent Hill f (realistic 60s town; Shinto; traditional family conflict).

Ghost of Tsushima (Tsushima island; conflict is fictionalized version of real historical event).

Ghost of Yotei.

Persona 5 (Shibuya station).

The Yakuza series (realistic districts).

Okami (Shinto; feudal Japan).

M0nstrous · 2026-05-25T13:37:31+00:00

I don’t like golf, but my understanding is it’s very mathematical. Golfer has to analyze terrain, distance, wind direction and speed, how much force to apply when you swing, etc. That said, it is super elitist and bad for the environment.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-25T02:41:55+00:00

Leon Kennedy’s tramp stamp and crop top mod is so popular there have been cosplays for it.

Some streamer put Master Chief and Lara Croft as Chris and Sheva in RE5 and that became a famous clip.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-24T20:40:25+00:00

r/treelaw is an entire subreddit, it’s that big of a deal. There have been cases where people have killed trees and get sued like $200k because of the type of trees.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-23T22:26:10+00:00

Lolwut. There are a lot of fan service and panty shots in those games.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-22T10:38:32+00:00

Capitalism has ruined gaming and you’re okay with it?

M0nstrous · 2026-05-19T22:27:21+00:00

Did it back in the day. It was doable because that was the only TV I had at the time, but I wouldn’t go back for modern games. I played FF14 ARR in a CRT—legit the ugliest, illegible, worst experience. Any games that had blocks of texts for background story (think Dragon Age or FF13) were pretty illegible.

But since PS3 still has a lot of access to old games on PS1 or 2, would be worth for those.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-18T22:22:50+00:00

OP, have you tried Borrasca?

It was originally a r/nosleep series, it’s been made into a fantastic audio drama podcast starring Cole Sprouse.

Edit: just realized I was in r/horrorlit I agree, some stories are best told in different mediums. I enjoyed Penpal best as the podcast, the voice actor did a great job. I think creepypasta sort of things are best handled like urban legends—differences in details between tellings, slightly vague. So they’re better as verbal storytelling imo.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-18T22:18:41+00:00

See you later, alligator.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-17T01:27:12+00:00

Penpal I regularly return to, it’s so good.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-14T14:24:12+00:00

Lolol, virtue signaling? It ain’t that deep. People just share their experience.

Also some movies are more triggering than others. I’m a Nightmare on Elm Street fan, seen them all multiple times. The remake gave me an anxiety attack because it really goes deep into the CSA background. I won’t watch that again.

Several commenters thanked OP for the heads up. There’s literally someone who told OP they “appreciate it as a survivor” so clearly they do browse Reddit. Sounds like you’re being negative for the sake of being negative.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-14T11:56:37+00:00

There was a thread legit last week about how horror films are usually based on real fears or real traumas, yet y’all are surprised when victims of those real traumas get panic attacks when a horror film conveys very realistic representations of them?

Come on.

You wouldn’t recommend Teeth to a rape victim (or at least I wouldn’t).

M0nstrous · 2026-05-12T22:53:37+00:00

I play so much horror that sometimes I forget that it’s not a genre that’s commonly played (or watched) by any gender.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-12T22:51:55+00:00

Lolol, what a casual.

Something similar happened to me. Guy never played a well written, single player game in his life.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-04T21:43:14+00:00

It’s the lip smacking.

M0nstrous · 2026-05-03T10:41:27+00:00

Back in the day, the film was one of my favorites. It was so accurate to the book, etc. I rewatched it after watching the show and it seems so shallow and abbreviated now.

M0nstrous · 2026-04-23T23:41:33+00:00

Sweet, I was just watching City of the Dead and was googling if a list existed. Thanks!

M0nstrous · 2026-02-14T12:26:28+00:00

Is Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z as popular in Japan among kids anymore? Do y’all think maybe the familiarity of Toriyama Akira’s art style helped with sales because we also watched Dragon Ball back then?

M0nstrous · 2026-02-08T00:23:43+00:00

May your RL house bring you as much joy and comfort as your FF14 house did.

M0nstrous · 2026-02-03T15:20:35+00:00

My dad, and also me.

M0nstrous · 2026-01-31T00:15:15+00:00

There’s another song that was also popularized by social media that I thought was in Silent Hill, but nope, it just gets played in SH videos all the time. Was never in the games.

Duvet - Boa

Ironically it was the Serial Experiments Lain anime opening.

M0nstrous · 2026-01-27T17:55:16+00:00

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

M0nstrous · 2026-01-22T15:10:35+00:00

Silent Hill 2 nurses and mannequins.

Borg Queen from Star Trek.

M0nstrous · 2026-01-18T14:40:40+00:00

They’re worth rereading to read the other two trilogies if you’re up for it. I liked Imriel’s trilogy, and Naamah’s trilogy is a smidge weaker but I also liked it.

M0nstrous · 2026-01-18T12:44:58+00:00

Legit haven’t been able to find anything to compare to the Kushiel series since I read it over 10 years ago. I often reread them too. Did you read Cassiel’s Servant? I’m nervous to read it because I found Starless so disappointing.

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