Yeah, Capcom's RE team really improved this gen. Let's remember what RE women looked like last gen:
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Oh god, that's terrible how did that stuff get approved??? Some of it isn't even just sexist, that tribal outfit thing they are doing is just racist and fetishistic and ewwww, whhhhhyyyyyyyyYeah, Capcom's RE team really improved this gen. Let's remember what RE women looked like last gen:
After puddlegate now Skirtgate - Jills Preorder costume (RE3 Remake) is not the original costume!!
True, but it's not like Capcom has no history there...
I feel like these type of design is the norm with Japanese action games set in the modern era.
this one is just honestly bafflingI still can't get over that urban ninja costume for Moira. It just looks stupider the more I look at it.
This is what happens when you build an industry on insular nerds whose only points of cultural reference are comic books and cartoons :S
A few days back, I posted over in an EtcetEra thread about how a lot of love for the Digimon franchise I had has died over the years due to the ever increasing amount of fanservice and how sexualized every woman Digimon is portrayed and drawn (especially post hiring an hentai artist), where it's down to their designs, posing, constant jiggling of the breasts in the anime or the sheer amount of sexialized artwork for the cards.
(While no nudity, they are still VERY NSFW and suggestive):
https://wikimon.net/images/8/8e/Dch-7-150_front.png
https://wikimon.net/images/0/08/Rosemon_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/9/9d/Dch-7-145_front.png
https://wikimon.net/images/5/57/Lotusmon_collectors_card2.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/e/e0/Bellestarrmon_ex_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/5/56/Angewomon_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/7/7b/Lilithmon_collectors_card.jpg
Like I said there, it annoys me because the Palmon like is my personal fav Digimon line even Rosemon and I think Lilithmon is cool as well, but their never allowed to be cool with excessive jiggle physics or overt sexualzation or making Rosemon's boobs bigger. Like this is how she looked in the early 00s when Rosemon was first introduced for the Pendulum like of the Virtual Pets in official artwork compare to modern artwork of her:
And also what bothers me is just the sheer lack of imagination with it. The original intent with Digimon's designs was that they were invoke monster movies and western horror, fantasy and Sci-Fi (see the many early Digimon with Spawn demon like mouths, the bugs being inspired by Xenomorphs or the 5th Virtual pets have parodies of the Grelims and Critters being the two Child Level digimon while the Adults were all based on Godzilla monsters etc), yet like only about 5 coded women Digimon get to be monsterous (The Biyomon line, Arukenimon, 2/3rds of the Palmon, Calmaramon and Magnadramon), most of the time it's sexy women in sexualized or revealing armour or clothes, Venusmon for is the worst when you compare her to the rest of the 11 Digimon based on the Roman Gods.
I just wish Digimon could give us more varied women Digimon, like Bride of Frankenstein (Boltmon exists why can't her?) for example or Saddako or an evil doll, one based on the countless of many women Yokai like Pokemon has to great effect, a Gorgon, a Hyena, a naked mole rat or something truly monstrous and original?
And I feel like such a hypocrite saying all this because I like Rosemon and Lillymon from the Palmon line and LadyDevimon, Ranamon (and evolved Calmaramon) and Lilithmon.
Sorry for the rant.
There is zero reason the Persona games can't all have a female character option.
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Minervamon was really fucking bad in xroswars I dropped it pretty early on for well being bad and just holy shit the horny levels were off the charts. I dont even mind some of the designs (Lilithmon is one of my favorite designs specially the butterfly themed X one) but shit this in your face in a kids show of all things just wasnt flying for me.
I mostly just want to share this amazing image of Kitana's new unlockable costume in MK11:
What an incredible design! <3
They could just do what most anime games do lately with this and just have both potential protags participate in the anime cutscenes at different levels. It's not hard to give more options, especially for blank slate characters. It's just laziness / condescension.
Oh Lucifer, I just looked it up and Motomu Toriyama worked on the game as co-director and he also co-wrote the script. Fuck. Obviously they needed someone to handle the women in the game because Nomura is inept in that regard but I didn't know they grabbed him.
Hmm? I don't think this is true. There's some male gaze-y stuff and "girly anime mannerisms" going on that is worth criticizing, but much of the time she's pretty normal and the camera doesn't constantly focus on her tits & ass. Like, she's about a million times better than Cidney in FFXV. She has her vulnerable moments but she's also confident a lot of the time. The biggest change is them playing up her being uncomfortable about the way Avalanche is going about their ecoterrorism. I don't think there's that much infantalizing going on (though I'm only up to the wall market part, so I haven't seen everything). Like, even up to this point Tifa has been all "Cloud, I got this" and shown she can handle herself several times.
You sure about that? From what ive played, she seems fairly normal.
While somewhat true, they also make a point to make Tifa say & show that she's not some damsel in distress who needs saving. The land lady thing I feel was more of a "she needs a true friend" and less of a "she needs a saviour". And I dunno, I don't think having someone in the main party show distress about the extreme methods of Avalanche is a bad change. I don't think that makes her overly vulnerable, just adds some dimension to Avalanche
Oh my, I clicked the spoiler thinking it was something from the original you spoiler tagged as a courtesy. It's not, it's something completely new.
its been a while since ive played ff7 and im only in chapter 3 of the remake, but tifa seems more confident and assertive than she was in the original. her concern for Cloud is still there and shes still reserved, but she is not as timid and doesnt deflect as much. i like her. feels like the same character, but improved
The RE team at Capcom Dev 1 has come a long way. Hopefully the push for a bigger esports presence forces the Street Fighter team at Capcom Dev 2 to follow suit.Yeah, Capcom's RE team really improved this gen. Let's remember what RE women looked like last gen:
After puddlegate now Skirtgate - Jills Preorder costume (RE3 Remake) is not the original costume!!
True, but it's not like Capcom has no history there...
Hmmm not really seeing that. Especially cloud. He was a personality void in kh, here he's pretty much the same cocky guy from the og. Tifa, I'd even say is in line with her og counterpart too. In kh, her world was basically just cloud and saving him. Here, she's struggling with her own issues, not everything is about him.
been replaying the RE games, well some RE games, time to replay 5 (which im actually a big fan of), not 2 minutes into the game, we get Sheva introduced... like this
Come on Capcom...
Maybe I'm just less familiar with the original (admittedly it's been almost 10 years since I played it last), but I've been way more invested in Aerith's character than I ever remember being. Yeah, I'll grant that she's a lot more "anime" this time, with all the good and bad that come with it. But she's also more engaging, I think.
