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tazzyboyishere posted...

I would guess Ultima IV, though it's more platonic

Thanks, I'm glad someone who knows about 80s PC RPGs showed up. I know nothing about them but kind of suspected one of the Wizardry or Ultima games might qualify for this. Platonic is fine, the example of Mother is also mostly based on familial love. Reading about the gameplay, it sounds like this game does also include the idea of solving fights without killing, which is part of the virtue of Justice.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Girls Garden (1985) is about a girl gathering flowers to give to the boy she loves. The time limit display is the boy walking away toward another girl who he will fall in love with instead if you dont finish your bouquet in time. This was Yuji Nakas first game for SEGA. 1985 seems kinda late for the first instance of what you want but its the first I can think of.

Nice, I had never even heard of that one, but it looks really cute. January '85 makes it just a little bit older than Ultima IV. It looks like this also has pacifist idea since you give honey to bears to make friends with them. It's also interesting that this is one of the rarer examples (from what I know) of an old game where you play as a girl trying to win a boy's affection and not the other way around.

Snake5555555555 posted...

In Nosferatu the Vampyre (1986), you play as multiple characters, including the married Jonathan and Lucy Harker, and travel as a party protecting each other (along with Van Helsing). You slay the final boss (Dracula himself and an inherently tragic figure) through a non-combative method (luring him in to sunlight).

Um, just don't look at how the game actually looks and sounds and portrays all this!

Another one I'd never heard of, but okay, that sounds like it includes all the ideas I brought up! Though yes, the idea of killing Dracula by luring him into the sunlight does suggest a very different tone to convincing Giygas to stop fighting in Mother. It's cool to see these types of things being present in a horror game at all, especially in a time when not a lot of games were using them period. Maybe it helped that it was an adaption of a film.