SarcasticMantisShrimp submitted:
This is Nu Wa from Smite. Look who got a bingo!
I love Smite to death, but their portrayals of females leave MUCH to be desired.
Oh SMITE, you neverending well of snore-inducing generic “sexyness” and casual cultural appropriation.
At this point the only thing worth pointing out about this is that for a figure from Chinese mythology, Nu Wa/Nüwa/Nügua here looks suspiciously white. And, traditionally for SMITE, any claim of this portrayal being “historically accurate” hinges on mass delusion (and probably a certain youtuber’s disproportionate popularity).
PS: No need to claim precede a valid critique with “I really love this thing to death, but…”
~Ozzie
Oh mighty Athena, will the sleazy designers EVER leave you alone?
How warped our collective culture is to portray the goddess of wisdom clothing herself like this for battle (or any other occasion, really) so absurdly?
Seems like whoever did this, wanted to rip off was inspired by that infinitely stupid “chestpiece” from Queen’s Blade. She doesn’t even wear a thong! Quite the contrary. She gets a hole to show off her buttcrack… Maybe so she can go number 2 without having to take off her “armor”? Ewww.
Also fuck it, I’m counting the high heels square, cause I’m so sick of female characters constantly being portrayed on their tippy-toes like Barbie, even though their shoes have flat soles.
~Ozzie
(Thank you to Derek for directing us to this one – wincenworks)
A friend’s request for a bodily comparison of the gods and goddesses of Smite.
I’m having a flashback to this Overwatch silhouette comparison (pre-Zarya, the token exception, that is):
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Eyup. Typical. Men tend to be all shapes and sizes, while women are just slight variations of the same “shapely” figure.
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~Ozzie
With a very few exceptions, pretty much every time I see a game brag about diverse body shapes – I wonder if they hired the same “expert” consultant that Levi’s did:
– wincenworks
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