Courtier
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That seems really vague and generalized. By that logic any ''moe'' style in recent blobbers would have been inspired by EO. Does it follow Moero Chronicle was also the same? CoH? Students of Round? Unchained Blades? How about the first GenXth from 2008? You're actually selling the EO art short by calling it a general moe style, because the sheer amount of detail in those character concepts (the equipment) is unique, especially for handheld animu blobbers. They're all simply different.
Whether it's localized or not doesn't matter for its influence, what matters are actual sales and popularity. Fact is EOIV had about twice the sales of the first three combined. Said three had comparable sales to other popular blobbers at the time. But EOIV was being produced in the same timeframe as DG.
EO1-3 were really good games, but they did not greatly influence the genre (in art or otherwise) and on the contrary went off to do their own thing entirely. As we both know, for decades many companies have been churning out these games with varying degrees of moeblob and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Whether it's localized or not doesn't matter for its influence, what matters are actual sales and popularity. Fact is EOIV had about twice the sales of the first three combined. Said three had comparable sales to other popular blobbers at the time. But EOIV was being produced in the same timeframe as DG.
EO1-3 were really good games, but they did not greatly influence the genre (in art or otherwise) and on the contrary went off to do their own thing entirely. As we both know, for decades many companies have been churning out these games with varying degrees of moeblob and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.