Journal of Other Forum Analysis

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And the number of people who have posted in here raving about how they are amazing and not even bothered to mention it makes me sad about the state of gaming and also reminded that era still has a lot of folks who simply don't give a fuck about women and others in gaming. At least acknowledge the problematic elements even if you do love their games. Asking for the smallest amount of self awareness and understanding of others isn't a huge ask.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-really-goddamn-love-vanillaware.828903/page-2?post=120675102#post-120675102


“I know you like your games but you should be required to prostrate yourself before us each time you say something good about the game, for balance”

Completely agree.

Like I said, these threads are always super telling when it's a problematic developer and the users who casually ignore (or slyly try to downplay) those issues. It always makes me side-eye those folks who can read these comments, the issues, the criticisms and then just blindly post (I love this developer! They are so good! I hope they never change!). You can have your likes, but these things should be called out consistently.

What if they don’t want it to change and like it how it is 

Just blows my mind how they treat this as if it was a genuine crime and harm and not just, you know, tacky artwork

If only they could be as classy as the Persona series, which I see has wikia pages with detailed write-ups on all the different outfits the teenage female characters wear...

It's crazy how some game series seem to get a pass no matter how fucking creepy they are to a normal outside observer, but god forbid a woman wear a form-fitting outfit that shows the curvature of her body the way most girls in every gym do.