Are you completely put off of a game if it has anime/ish aesthetics no matter the mechanics/story/music/everythingelse?

No but it certainly isn't my preference.

I know this is a generalization but I really don't like the hypersexualized look that goes along with most anime. I don't care for that in non-anime art styles as well.

No, if a game looks interesting I'm willing to give it a chance no matter what the art style, music style,etc is. I learned that lesson after finally giving Dragon quest Viii a chance and really loving it.

Nope. I like anime.

Generally, if a game has an anime art style, it will give me a bad first impression, simply because there's SO much crap out there using that art style. However, I'll still give the game a chance. There's been a handful of times in the past where I've been incredibly surprised by a game with an anime art style being REALLY good.

Hell, I still play Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale on occasion, and that has SUPER stereotypical anime characters in it... However, both the gameplay systems and English localization on that game were really well done. I can't help but love the shit out of it.

Not, just if it has softcore porn pedophile date sim elements. It just so happens any game with that also happens to be anime styled.

Kind of.

I like my anime more serious in nature. A lot of the anime tropes are ones I grew out of in my early twenties. Tear drops, pancake faces, power levels, fan service, and "Eighteen year old guy who stumbles over his own two feet, is a very poor fighter, but is actually a murdering machine when they want to be" tropes. I just stopped finding them funny/endearing/tolerable.

So, as I have a bad habit of doing, I picked something up because the art looked cool. Trinity Blood. "Holy shit, look at this box art. It looks like Castlevania the anime! I'll buy all the DVDs!" What I got was "main character that avoids combat, trips over his own feet, but has a power level of 394763495786 who should just be called Vash the Stampede who loves sugar cubes and an art style that looks nothing like the box art."

I also have a bad habit of buying things and not opening them for months at a time. (It's how I have this sealed copy of MGS Substistance and Metroid Trilogy).

So yeah. If it has an anime aesthetic, I no longer buy on impulse and will let my friends/trusted reviewers filter content for me. If it means I just play Valkyria Chronicles and watch Black Lagoon, so be it.

Yeah I'm potentially put off by anime art styles. Some styles bother me more than others. For instance I wasn't phased at all by Dragon Quest 8's art direction nor was I bothered by Catherine's. I am bothered by art styles like what's in Dust, Hatsune Miku, and those various visual novel type games. I think it's when you mix the nonsensical drama stories with the extra exaggerated styles that really puts me off. Those stupid anime sounds put me off too. those "auhhh???!?!" and "uhhh?" fucking sounds they make. Maybe draw better faces so you don't have to make stupid sounds to compensate.

Anime-style in general? Nah, I don't really mind it or particularly care one way or the other.

Pedobait or moeshit like Disgaea and those Atelier games? Truly fucking abysmal.

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Having said that, unless it reaches the level of Arcana Hearts, where it looks like Chris Hansen will knock on your door any minute, no.

It's the reason I haven't played Dust: An Elysian Tale, although maybe it's because I think the anime-furry aesthetic is not good with the whole 'genocide' storyline.

Shut up, you filthy Japanophile.

On topic FUCK NO. I'll play anything as long as it's fun or interesting enough.

Holy shit! that was the funniest video I've seen in a long time!

I don't like a lot of the tropes of anime, or some of the broader implications of the genre, and anime storytelling is usually pretty over-the-top and somewhat adolescent. But that said, I was totally able to love the hell out of Tales of Vesperia and Eternal Sonata in spite of the animeness of them. Some games do it better than others, coming across as endearing rather than creepy.

I think in a way - and please don't flame me for this, because I honestly think I'm saying what a lot of people are thinking - I'm way more creeped out by people who are way into anime than I am by actual anime.

I think most people are creeped out by those who are obsessed with a particular form of entertainment. I haven't watched anime in a while (other than attack on titan a few months ago), so I ain't flaming.

Yes.