…when one male character criticizes a woman for going into battle with her shirt hanging open, which is really the snake eating its own tail of video game sexism in a game where a significant portion of its speaking female characters are similarly and impractically exposed.
Arthur Gies, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review: Off the path
A relevant follow up the question of how does one satirize bikini armor, specifically that one does not do it by blaming a fictional character for the clothing chosen for her by the creator.
Particularly not if one is going to then normalize it within their media, which has normalized this excuse to the extent that it appears on the rhetoric bingo card.
– wincenworks
…when one male character criticizes a woman for going into battle with her shirt hanging open, which is really the snake eating its own tail of video game sexism in a game where a significant portion of its speaking female characters are similarly and impractically exposed.
Arthur Gies, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review: Off the path
A relevant follow up the question of how does one satirize bikini armor, specifically that one does not do it by blaming a fictional character for the clothing chosen for her by the creator.
Particularly not if one is going to then normalize it within their media, which has normalized this excuse to the extent that it appears on the rhetoric bingo card.
– wincenworks
We’ve featured Duelyst before, so the quality of the designs isn’t the surprise – it’s them being praised like they’re something exceptional. In the interest of fairness, let me share the positive example from the article:
And there are a couple that are not quite as terrible.
But seriously, if this is the best character art video games can produce we need to try switching them off and then back on again.
– wincenworks
