I am totally agreed that there's no legitimate reason for it. There is a story 'excuse' for nakedness, but even that didn't require showing the nakedness, at least not as much as it shows.
Do you think having some gross content is inexcusable, regardless of anything else a game does? Should we boycott any media that has content like this? In which case, would you call playing the game and enjoying it morally unacceptable? I'm not trying to be defensive, I'm genuinely wondering the answer to this question.
I personally was not grossed out enough for it to be detrimental to my enjoyment, but I blame years of desensitization for that. I didn't "choose" my reaction, so I don't think it's bad in itself that it didn't bother me. But I am able to take a step back and ask myself - is it bad if I recommend the game to people? I think based on your post, the answer is yes, but I'm undecided.
I used a lot of curse words in my last post which probably makes it sound like I'm more emotional then I am about this. But, I just wanted to be clear on my stance.
In response to your post, I don't think it needs to be boycotted or even that playing and enjoying the game is morally unacceptable... You don't get to control how you feel about the game, you can control how you act based on the feeling... Just like I don't have to use a bunch of f-bombs in my response. Play and enjoy whatever games you want.
The problem that I personally have with digusting shit like this in a video game, or any fictional media, is that some people wrote this shit. It's a fictional story, it's not true, they can write whatever justification, they can draw whatever 'art' they choose to. This is a story about kids that have to get naked, with drawings depicting such... fuck that gross ass shit. Even if it's not depicted in graphic detail it's TOTALLY unnecessary. Make them older, make the justification require them to wear special suits. It's FICTION. The author chose to write it this way, which means they chose to write a story about naked kids... and that's fucking gross. If that's the story they HAVE to tell, then they need to get some help and that shouldn't be celebrated. It's the same thing with the 1,000 year old dragon trope (and I HATE making this comparison because people will focus on it, and it'll detract from the point), you can make a cool story about an ancient dragon that transforms and lives as a human, that's cool. But they don't need to draw them as a sexualized child in a bikini, that's fucked up and disgusting, just DON'T do that shit okay?
The bottom line is that the authors go out of their way to sexualize children and women, so whatever 'greatest story in video games' comes along with it is fuckin rotten by association because those same authors want you to enjoy this pervy shit. They want that. They want you to look at and think about naked kids. If they didn't want that they wouldn't put it in the game. It's fucked up.
why buy a coke and then complain about the sugar? Just dont buy the coke.
100% this. Except in this case the 'sugar' is naked kids.... and I personally can't get down with 'it's only a little bit of naked kids', or 'the naked kids are barely naked'.
I'm out, I don't need that shit. at all.
