It’s one of those designs that makes me think there should be a custom bingo card for it. A bingo that includes squares like “WTF am I looking at?!”, “Over-accessorizing” and, of course, “Extreme racial/cultural insensitivity”.
~Ozzie
You know – most designers are happy commodifying and dehumanizing one culture at a time… in this case it’s like they were trying to cram as many as possible into one drawing of a generic pretty white girl.
That’s impressive… in a sickening, terrible kind of way.
– wincenworks
more about exotification in character design on BABD | more about cultural appropriation in costume design
Ritual Entertainment’s SiN is a franchise that truly went all out on the sex sells approach. The even went as far to hire fetish model Bianca Beauchamp to cosplay as the iconic villainess Elexis Sinclair from the first game and be a booth babe at E3.* They also hired her for modeling reference**, motion capture and extra publicity shoots.
This was all to promote for their nine part SiN Episodes series that stopped mysteriously after part one.
Could it be that sex doesn’t sell!? Is this possible!?
* I love this video because it showcases one of the drawbacks of this approach – the interviewer is clearly more interested in asking Bianca about herself rather than this game she’s there to promote.
** Why yes, they did remodel the iconic villainess to look more like Bianca Beauchamp and it was actually an improvement on her original look:
– wincenworks
