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[benji]

Some of this got posted earlier:

Something that is extra annoying is that I'm just trying to outright avoid the game at this point yet every time I scroll on twitter/social media stuff I'm just being served people praising/going full shitbag on it. Just waiting for my apathy to take over at this point.

There are countless entertainment options available to people at all times, so watching some constantly trip over making excuses for their own active choice to buy gaming's equivalents of 'she breasted boobily' is certainly something.

This is probably the most tiring thing to see, especially when people are like "It's got good graphics" and I'm thinking to myself "I hope that you mean everything else beyond Eve, but I'm almost 100% sure that you also mean Eve as well" inside my head.

SIE has pretty fucked priorities. Remember how some Japanese PS4 games needed to make adjustments to sexualized content in order to get approval?

Meanwhile this game is a goddamn tentpole title.

Yea, you're right. I had almost forgotten about that issue. Sony had issues with the most recent Senran Kagura and Neptunia games having overt sexualized content of adults and minors in them and made them change cover art and censor some things to get approved. It was an arduous task forced upon the dev just to get the game on the storefront for sale.

Meanwhile, you have the devs from Stellar Blade go "hold my beer" and jump the security line on a pogo stick.

Even though some of the games being altered were technically for a net benefit, the reasoning behind it wasn't good nor clear. Kinda like when somebody within Valve was policing "anime" and visual novel games on Steam.

I am not at all surprised that corporate enforced social morals turn out to be only applicable to the poor and the powerless. Well, relatively poor and powerless in terms of developer/publisher resources and scale of the game.

Nintendo shockingly has the best female representation so far in 2024...

Yeah wtf... it literally looks like a skintight skin suit....as in skin itself as the suit. Is Eve a fan of Texas Chainsaw perhaps?

Well, Nintendo is making a game actually aimed at girls (and I do say girls because the game is for primary schoolers) so it has to actually be appealing to girls and thus not something that makes them feel bad, while Stellar Blade is made to be a fap fantasy for horny men who've never had a meaningful relationship with a woman, except maybe their mother and even then.

There are countless entertainment options available to people at all times, so watching some constantly trip over making excuses for their own active choice to buy gaming's equivalents of 'she breasted boobily' is certainly something.

Yeah this. There is basically infinite media out there and choosing to play this game with everything about it just being grosser than DOA Extreme instead of doing literally anything else just says so mcuh about you. I'd be more accepting if the person chose to play a literal porn game instead of this

I want to believe that Sony was fulfilling a contract and that they won't work with Shift Up again after it came out they were a misogynistic developer who punished women working for them for supporting women's rights. But unfortunately we all know they probably don't give a fuck...

There are so many smaller studios in SK SIE could invest in, but nope they went with Shift Up. It's all cold business calculations. Not like I would expect them to defend a smaller studio from the angry mob of misogynists.

I've had to stop myself from turning my twitter account into a gimmick where I just respond with "why don't you just watch porn".

I've turned inside out with cringe. I don't have enough eyes to roll anytime this game is put anywhere near Bayonetta.

I guess one upside, I'm seeing some people get turned off the game due to being blindsided that it's a souls and not character action. May help it sell less.

Me waiting for the lesbian erotica VN I backed on Kickstarter to finally finish production.

Go on... May I have the link please

I technically can't say.

🍜🛁 makers of 💜💣 and 🍀👶

Edit: Wait, Good Luck Baby! isn't adult so I can say that. But yeah, the latest project from them.

Both my kids are dudes, and both enjoy it too. Thr only complaint my youngest has is he can't play as his favorite, Rosalina.

Oh I'm not saying that boys can't enjoy it and I'm sorry if I phrased it that way. Obviously games are games and anyone can enjoy anything and we should degender stuff for kids because it's completely silly to have boys' books and girls' books, boys' games and girls' games, boy toys and girl toys. I just mean like demographically, a game about a princess trying on different pretty clothes with activities such as being a mermaid, figure skating, and riding a horse (albiet in a cowgirl outfit) are at least in the modern era girl coded, and as such from a development perspective while making the game fun would hvae been the first priority, it would have been designed to try appeal to young girls

Seems very weird to withold her age

Makes you wonder what it'll take to get her measurements.

You know, since they are invoking Judea-Christian mythology, I'm terrified what design "Lilith" will have.

She's a 1000 year old dragon (robot), but also born in the opening, so she is both 1000, but also a child, and looks like a woman, just to cover all bases and fetishes.

It's unquestionably this. There's no reason to hide it unless this is the overdone twist.

You could say....born sexy yesterday, for example.

Absolutely lol. And since there is an Adam and Eve, she will also be the child-robot-mother of new humanity (and maybe the child-robot of old humanity?!).

Yes lol. She is absolutely that trope.

What are the odds of her literally getting impregnated at the end of the game?

Extremely high lol.

Low but only because they are teasing the age reveal for a sequel. A Stellar Blade 2 will 100% end with her married with 3 kids or something.

If they do anything along those lines I'm betting it will be either immaculate conception or some weird romance with an ai or entity that is a self insert for the player. Actually maybe "adam" will be blank/boring enough for that, especially if it gets real weird into repopulation.

I'll be shocked if there is an overt in game romantic interest, especially a kiss, assume it would be in that weird place between homophobia on the sapphic side (in general and with south Korean media) and not wanting to give her a male love interest, which I guess is also rooted in the same.

Oh my god, you're so right.

Take your bets everyone, which sentiment will win out? Adam and Eve anime birth of humanity and an excuse to get Eve naked or pregnant, or weird gamer "I don't want my main character to kiss a man" attitude?

The battle of the century.

secret third thing: self-insert via incest kink

Just saw these gifs of stellar blade, and it's just pure cringe. Honestly, I can't imagine playing this game even if it were incredibly well made. It also makes me distrust people who say the game is good just because how can anyone look at the is and be like "oh yeah very normal game, no notes"? And from what I can tell it's not even a nier automata situation where there's a lot of depth to the story and themes of the game and overall a very lovingly crafted piece of art that has questionable elements. This just seems like a mishmash of a game purely propped up by the overt sexualization, and wouldn't warrant a second glance from most if not for that.

Setting aside the needlessly oversexualized garbage, who the fuck opens a chest like that? Nothing in that animation makes any sense at all lol
Probably an attempt at making her cutesy and in need of protection... Instead, she just looks like a bumbling idiot.

Might as well throw in Vanille's running animation from FFXIII to complete this cocktail of inadequacy.

Low but only because they are teasing the age reveal for a sequel. A Stellar Blade 2 will 100% end with her married with 3 kids or something.

Nah, part of a harem with kids.

This proves it, this game is built just for titillation and nothing more. I knew this to be the case from the marketing, but this is enough for me to completely handwave this game.

Like fuck, at least Nier, while it has obvious sexualization, the marketing and most of the game did not focus on 2B's appearance (outside of the obvious self destruct).

Correct me if im wrong, but most of the original fans of Nier came from the prior games as well as platinum games, not 2B herself, correct? This games hype seems to be ONLY for Eve.

Lot of kink-shaming happening in this thread.