The “The 3D sequel to the popular Bikini Karate Babes video game.” (their words).  If you haven’t heard of Bikini Karate Babes then don’t worry, they’re using a very loose definition of “popular”.

Warriors of Elysia is the ultimate attempt to profiteer by pandering to the presumed straight male audience.  Even worse that Scarlet Blade.

How could it be worse than Scarlet Blade you ask?  Well it’s not just due to the Michael Bay style explosions.  Scarlet Blade at revels in it’s pandering. It provides a flimsy story to explain itself and asks players to pay extra for a little more pandering.

Warriors of Elysia tries to pretend that it’s a regular clean game, just with women in bikinis because they want to be.  It wants you to think of what goes on as normal.

Now as you can see, they hired real models to do video motion capture for all the fighting moves.  They also made extra videos to try to pretend there was a story to all this nonsense and a comic that illustrates how one of the characters has an “instant win” move of pulling off the other girl’s top:

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This is actually a thing. It’s actually a gameplay mechanic that happens

Now I need to stress – at no point in any of the promotions does it present this as an erotic product or otherwise adult game.  in fact on the forums they tell posters to keep things clean.  The game also features all kinds of cut scenes and stuff that don’t really make sense but are there to try to loan it validity.

This is the ultimate attempt to normalize objectification of women in video games.

This is literally an attempt to cash in on the success of the fighter genre by assuming everyone will buy the game if it stars bikini babes.  How well did that work for them?  So well that literally nobody is interested in stocking it so they sell it only via their own website and they’re asking for donations towards making a mobile port.

It’s really amazing that with products like this in existence, marketing professionals want to cling to the myth that sex sells.

– wincenworks

(Thank you to adicitus for pointing out a mistake on my part referring to the product in several places as Warriors of Elysium… no such group or Elysium itself deserves to be connected to this trash)