I am right there with you. The game clearly put a lot of work into the woman's animations to make it "cute" and the first person view made it way more personal than I was comfortable feeling. I like that barrier to exist.
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Yeah I saw that moment and I felt uncomfortable too because at that point I'm like how old is the MC? How did he get this job w/o any kind of exp? Why are there so many girls? Also, the idea that as a "Captain" he should date girls who work for him despite it sounded extremely sketchy.
Nothing says healthy relationship like a person in a position of authority dating their subordinates.
Lookin' at you here, Byleth… :X
In this case you know exactly what they're doing because most of that game is 3rd person (if it's the one I'm thinking about which I tried out for a few hours).
Other VNs are first person (usually) probably just because they ultimately descend from old PC graphic adventure games which were probably always first person to spare the precious processing power that would be needed to render a 3rd person avatar. Or maybe it was some other reason. In any case in VNs it morphed into something more voyeuristic probably when eroge took over the market.
Ah man Sakura Wars (2019) was my first in the series and it was so extremely cringey. The animations and camera angles especially I hated. I forced myself through it and found very little redeemable about it. If you don't like the first few hours, it does not get better.
Mamma Mia, indeed. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was one of those knockoff mobile games.
The gameplay itself seems fine, but there is something deeply jarring with anime girls being in an environment that's trying to be realistic. It just makes them look even more absurd than they already are.
The whole "little anime girl with ultra realistic weaponry" always feel very fetish-y and weird everytime I see it.
What in the world...New XCOM mobile game seems to REALLY want that gacha audience.
I would love to be a fly on the wall while they were pitching this garbage.
You not into anime girls cosplaying as realistic naval ships?
I'm not sure I would describe mecha musume as having ultra realistic weapons.
I believe those are alternate costumes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCgERUZPz-8 The blonde with bare thighs is OTs-14, who is by default in a combat-suit looking costume, though much too tight. Most of the default costumes seem to have similar design philosophy.
When it started out I thought a Anime like game without a character that shows me her thighs welcome surprise, but towards the end you see a few more characters who hate to cover up their legs.
I get this entirely. It's handled with a somewhat lighter touch, but I definitely noticed every time FF7R did this, and I didn't like it there either. The intention is clear.
Which is why Jeritza, Seteth, Manuela and Hanneman are the correct choices.
(Alois is already happily married, Catherine and Shamir belong to each other, Gilbert is a PoS who doesn't deserve happiness and Rhea... well let's just say that if you have to ask yourself "would this be incest?" it may be a good idea to play it safe and avoid it.
Also, why isn't Anna marriable? It would have added another 100% not creepy option. You had ONE JOB IS!!!)
I know this may be not the thread but at least TH doesn't come close to the level of possible incest in Fates
You have the pseudo-incest by being able to marry any of your 8 siblings, then due to the way the child system works and that all the Royal Sisters can marry anyone who has a kid makes it so that everyone can be your nephew/niece while still being able to marry them
Then you get real incest with Azura who is revealed by a throwaway line to be your cousin (also means that marrying her Shigure is also incest)
And finally the 4 kids of the Royal Brothers (and Shigure if you have Azura marry any of them) can also marry their cousins if the mother of any Gen 2 girl is one of the Royal Sisters
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Fates is really a mess, but we already knew that. Honestly in my opinion, marrying Hinoka, Takumi, Sakura, or Ryoma is not that bad. You didn't grow up with them and they are not related to you by blood at all.
Marrying Azura is incest, so yeah, that's fucked up, and the Camilla, Leo, Xander and Elise... well at least they aren't really related to you, but you still grew up thinking they were, so I dunno.
It might be legal, because no blood-relation, but it's still too weird and creepy. And about the incest with the second gen sheananigans... yeah, that was also possible in Awakening (and Genealogy/Thracia lol) depending on who you pair-up with who to make the babies, and honestly I want to think it was an accident. Like, they didn't think hard enough about it to realize it could happen. But at the same time, this is Fire Emblem, a series infamous for playing fast and loose with both pesudo-incest and actual incest, so maybe I shouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt.
Eeeh, kinda. But if we start to take "Children of the Goddess" too literally as in Rhea, Cichol, Indech, Macuil and Flayn's mom were all siblings, than it starts to become a little too weird and the poor Nabateans are doomed because of in-breeding. So it is better to just assume that "Children of the Goddess" is not literal since we don't know for a fact what's the truth there.
But we do know for a fact that our mother was Rhea's daughter. We don't know if she was biologically related to her or not (they didn't go into detail on how homunculi work), but she was still a mother figure for our biological mother, and Rhea is aware of it, which is kind of skeevy.
And depending on how you interpret Sothis (Rhea's freaking mom) becoming one with you, it becomes even more skeevy.
Quite a different situation compared to Seteth and Flayn maybe being our second/third cousins IF they actually are blood related to Rhea.
The joke about your Hoshidan 'sibling's is that you only learn this either by marrying one of them or by playing Revelations. Otherwise, the story in both Birhtright and Conquest continue pretending that they are your real siblings. So yeah, in a way you, are marrying your biological sibling unless someone spoiled you or you read it somewhere else.
And the only mention of Azura being Corrin's cousin is in Revelations, the DLC route.
Agree about the Nohr siblings. It is way too weird to marrying people you grew up with and treated you like their brother/sister.
For me worse is that Fire Emblem continues letting the player marry the child character. Take Fates, for example, we have Sakura, Elise, Mozu and Hayato. Nyx is even more terrible because she is the classic adult in the body of a child and with a terrible outfit. This shit is awful. Although a little better in Three Houses, you can still have Byleth marry Flayn, who is still like a child. Or Sothis...
As I said, Fates' an absolute mess. Imagine chossing to marry Hinoka BECAUSE she is your sister (because you are weird like that) and the day of the wedding you are hit with the revelation that you are not siblings at all. And there are no words to describe how sad, disappointed and betrayed you feel.
Only in Fates.
But idk if this is really on-topic for the thread? I guess that fetishizing incest is a kind of sexualization, and the main victim in both Fates and Three Houses are women (Azura and Rhea), so maybe it is on topic. I'm not sure.
I always end up getting married to a unit that has roughly the same movement range as my player unit, and is melee class so I can use them as a meat shield. This apparently makes all the ladies hot and bothered.
Videogames have clearly mastered the intricacies of gamifying romance.
Anime Aloy
Not 100% confirm but could be a promo for the both the sequel and PSN link up.
Other official art of new characters
Pretty intimating character in the story so far.
Not seen her in the story yet but she doesn't hold back when it comes to fighting or dealing with people. Some label her as the second in command lesbian trope.
One of the resistance member fighting the Shogun. Very idol like character.
Not 100% confirm but could be a promo for the both the sequel and PSN link up.
Other official art of new characters
Pretty intimating character in the story so far.
Not seen her in the story yet but she doesn't hold back when it comes to fighting or dealing with people. Some label her as the second in command lesbian trope.
One of the resistance member fighting the Shogun. Very idol like character.
Aloy is available on all platforms, which is nice for those who do not have Playstations like me. Looking at the artwork, it looks like Aloy will use the middle height character model.
Abby for Genshin next?
Yeah meant to make a correction.
Anyway, man how far would they go?
Aloy doesn't even look like her, she even has the tropey sexy female archer pose going on, they didn't even use the same artstyle on her, hell even the other revealed Inazuma characters look better, truly dissapointing.
That pose is pretty bad...
But the design itself could be much worse. The Genshin Impact artstyle doesn't lend itself well to characters like Aloy, so I truly believe she wouldn't have looked much like herself no matter what.
LMAO! Well at least they didn't hire the creepy "perfect fake teeth smile" fan.
But the design itself could be much worse. The Genshin Impact artstyle doesn't lend itself well to characters like Aloy, so I truly believe she wouldn't have looked much like herself no matter what.
LMAO! Well at least they didn't hire the creepy "perfect fake teeth smile" fan.
I have a gut feeling that Sony/Guerrilla Games had talks with mihoyo on how much they can design her and still give the team freedom of their own take.
Why did I check out people's reaction on Twitter? Why did I even open Twitter?
I need eye-bleach after reading a bunch of people calling Genshin Impact ruined now, and saying they will uninstall the game. For a fun little collab. A fun little optional collab with Horizon is ground for uninstalling over literally any other issue with the game. Why are gamers like this?
I need eye-bleach after reading a bunch of people calling Genshin Impact ruined now, and saying they will uninstall the game. For a fun little collab. A fun little optional collab with Horizon is ground for uninstalling over literally any other issue with the game. Why are gamers like this?
Where did you see reactions like that? I was checking that tweet above for Aloy and saw nothing like that. A lot of people confused at this crossover or clarifying where the character came from.
Weird I checked the same tweet and some people were saying that she didn't fit the style of the game at all, others were completely against crossovers, some guy complained about her eyebrows (??????) and I saw a few uninstallers. There were a good chunk of people explaining who Aloy was but even some of them were like "I can't believe half the comments are so negative". I have to admit, the people being confused and not knowing Aloy outnumbered the whiny babies, but the whiny babies hirked me to no end.
EDIT: However, consider that since I never use Twitter, I also never blocked anyone. Some of the grosser comments might have been from people you have blocked.
I dunno, I think they went a little too far in the opposite direction in terms of her lip fullness.
That a hell of a read and the growing pains the industry still going through.
Also I like his profile
On one hand I respect the guy for what he did. We always need people to push back against the status quo and all kinds of discrimination.
On the other hand I am now worried about future Insomniac project. Since he left the company will other people be brave enough to stand for what's right or will the company naturally attract more people like that game director and art director?
Only time will tell.
That Aloy design for Genshin Impact.
Sony and Guerilla why.
Edit: Time to draw attention to how nice some of the covers for the comic were during the first arc.
Not "anime" style but still cartoonish.
Sony and Guerilla why.
Edit: Time to draw attention to how nice some of the covers for the comic were during the first arc.
Not "anime" style but still cartoonish.
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That would be an improvement over how needlessly depressing Part II is.
Why would you think they would use a completely different art style than whats in the game? Or what would you expect of a aloy design in genshin?
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Classic school playground banter!
"Eww! A girl likes playing Zelda games? I'm never playing Zelda again. Zelda's for babies!"
After part 1's ending there really wasn't much chance of everyone being happy forever.
It's more the principle of them approving this in the first place.
Abby in a bikini. You know you want it, so many men would be uncomfortable.
