Are there any video game characters that you've grown to dislike? For me, it's Bowser. Seriously, what happened to you Bowser? You used to be cool! Super Mario 64? Menacing. Yoshi's Island? Epic. Now he's just a bumbling idiot who time and time again fails to stop a little Italian man. Even his voice has become terrible. I think the fall of Bowser can be traced to Super Mario Sunshine. It's probably the worst portrayal of Bowser. The final battle took place in a hot tub!!! I hate Bowser so much now that I would even say that the Mario series desperately needs a new main villain.
While I still like the character, Snow Villers in Final Fantasy XIII-2 seemed like a total jerk compared to how he was in the first game. He was always sort of impulsive, but in XIII-2, he almost seemed full of himself. It might just be me, but I think they sorta bombed on delivering his character the second time around. Hopefully, it won't be as bad in the upcoming DLC.
I kind of feel like without Fang, Lightning, or Lebreau to keep him grounded like in the first game, Snow's kind of crazy. :P Serah babies him and lets him get away with too much bravado and being on his own the rest of XIII-2 hasn't helped. Hopefully he won't be so annoying in his DLC though. :s There are plenty of characters I dislike and have never liked. I play a lot of character/story-driven games so liking or disliking a character is very common for me. There's usually one or two in every game that just won't click for me. But for characters I did like and then stopped liking? I can't really think of any off-hand. After scrolling quickly through my games list, I guess I didn't much care for Naia in Sequence and grew to really dislike her at the end of the game. I tend to get attached to characters easily, though, so if anything, I'll grow to like characters over time much more easily than dislike.
Ganondorf. Even if Ganondorf proper wasn't featured in ALttP, he had a nice little backstory there that gave the game an mystery. Then we get to see him and face him in OoT. He was a great villain. And then he returns in TWW and there is a great deal of character development on him. We learn his motives and reasoning. He's a smart guy. The character developed and improved each time. And then from that refined character in TWW we somehow end up with the garbage that was Ganondorf in Twilight Princess. A really lame villain. Evil, just because and has no real influence on the story. (Also, Bowser in Paper Mario was the best Bowser. And the original SMB where the manual backstory said he was the leader of a tribe that wields black magic. That plot point was kind of dropped from the series)
I liked Ganondorf in Twilight Princess, even though he really didn't play a huge role in the story. He was just kind of there manipulating Zant. His goal was to get revenge for what happened in OoT. He was put on trial, was to be executed but the Triforce of Power intervened and thus he was banished to the Twilight Realm instead. He made a deal with Zant, the sort of 'you scratch my back, I scratch yours' deal. The final battle was incredible too. First you fight his puppet Zelda, then Ganon, then Ganondorf on horseback, and then the duel in Hyrule Field. Overall, it wasn't the best appearance of Ganondorf but it wasn't bad either.
I remember finding his appearance really disappointing in Twilight Princess because I felt he cheapened Zant's role a lot, but I also only played the game once a few months after it came out so I don't remember a single detail about it. :/ I should replay it soon.
Well, you pretty much remember it correctly. XD But sure, go play it. I just replayed it again and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I can't think of any characters right away, but there is a character type that I usually do not care for. That is fist fighter type characters, ones who fight with their hands. I usually do not care for them, there are only a few in all of the games that I've ever played that I actually liked.
