DSMatticus wrote:other games with similar sexual content
I really like the look of Dragon's crown, and it's game play reviews very high. As soon as Sony ships it across the
non-existent digital ocean and it fucking gets here I want a copy.
In the mean time. I'm pretty sure I can identify the real source of all the hand wringing bullshit over it.
It's the art style. Not the fan service or the "sexual" content or the objectification or the boobies or the skimpy clothing or anything else. It is the STYLE in which that is represented. Because its all cartoon to the point of caricature. A style that I certainly think is bold and honest and fun.
But sadly a style which
looks like a parody. And because it
looks like a parody it looks like an attack on all those other games with the same content that DON'T have a bold eye catching cartoony style that clearly highlights that content. And even though it is I think rather NOT a parody or attack on that sort of thing, and more just, well, openly that sort of thing... there is the TERRIBLE DANGER that it might make these people look back on their other games, their other favorite games, like the Witcher or God of War or whatever the fuck because to varying degrees objectification of women is rampant in the medium, and have to REALIZE that they are doing the same thing too.
And they aren't ready to admit that. They want to pretend their other games are perfectly perfect and acceptable bastions of sexual equality and upstanding moral rectitude. And, the way Fan Boys work, that means ripping apart anything that looks like it might even begin to be an attack on that belief. Even if it isn't, it just needs to LOOK that way in a handful of screenshots, like Dragon's Crown does.
It's a pity because I think it would be better all around for everyone if games with lots of fan service and boobs and objectification were more up front and out there with it, like Dragon's Crown, and the rest of the games that wanted to pretend to be "normal" and "acceptable" and "equal" actually did that by
actually doing that instead of being dude bro games packed full of all sorts of sexism but with a less flamboyantly noticeable art style.
Anyway, that's my best guess why there is such a double standard in play on criticism of Dragon's Crown. Because it's basically the kid pointing out the emperor has no clothes, even though really it didn't want to do that and it just wanted to dance around naked along with the emperor.