So I was looking for some silly RPGs to play to pass the time and I found Valiant Force, which is where this lovely piece of work comes from.
And a piece of work it is. It’s always a trip to see generic bikini armor that is at the same time exceptionally overdesigned. (Also I just want to note that her back leg is fully on the ground, heel and all, which means her legs are different lengths.)
So Valiant Force is another mobile action MMO where you collect the greatest “Heroes (capitalized) to have ever existed.” And just like all the other similar games we’ve featured here, the sexy girl aspect of it is completely irrelevant to gameplay. Or anything.
But that doesn’t stop the game’s website to feature this in its promotional art:
Hi. I hope you don’t mind me sharing my own work. I tried to make these armors as realistic/functional as my minimal knowledge on the subject allowed me to.
Of course we don’t mind! And I love both of these pieces very much.
I’m happy to see Ciri dressed in appropriate armor instead of a shirt that’s unbuttoned right between the boobs (even when they go to a cold place and she wears a fur cloak), and the armor design itself is very nice. [Link to original post with close-ups!] I like that you can see the layering in the gaps. It’s a bit too symmetrical for me, but that’s more of a personal preference than anything.
As for the second piece, that could practically be used as a poster to recruit monster-slayers in a fantasy universe! It’s quite awe-inspiring, and I love your entire line of Classic Arcade Girls.
Thanks for the submission, and keep doing great work!
This sexy lady you see in there is Claudia, the female protagonist of one of my favourite french comics of all times, Requiem: Chevalier Vampire. It’s a very good story (although is very nsfw, it has a lot of explicit violence, nudity and sex scenes) but… it could do waaay better with female representation. The double standards here is something that really hurts, specially while the males have this awesome armors:
And females has… well, you’ve seen.
The only valid excuse i could see for this is that the story happens in hell itself and they’re all vampires and are practically indestructible but… this does not explain why males have such badass-looking armor and females don’t.
And it’s not only the costumes, within the story, a lot of the male characters refers to women in a very despicable way; just because “they’re all sinners and are in hell” (literally this is the excuse they give when they say or do some painful sexist things) There are some genuinely good female characters tho, such as the queen of Dystopia:
But she only appears for a very short time, i think in fact she only appears in one of the numbers. There are also a group of only female pirates whose leader is some kind of transgender women (it is not specified but you can guess by some things she says and also her past when alive). And they are treat very equal to any other group of characters within the story, and are the ones that looks the least sexualized of all:
Yes… This lady is one of the least sexualized character in the story…
If you’d like to see, you’ll find some bingo material and you don’t even have to search really much (the cover of the 7th volume for example, the 10th and even the 2nd).
(I also want to apologize for my spelling or writing errors, english is not my first language and i’m still learning.)
So I did some cursory research, and you were right: finding bingo material in this series is not even that hard. The most clothing I’ve seen Claudia wear is this:
And while those boots are amazing, her top is somehow even worse than the bingo’ed one… it’s giving me second-hand pains. She does have fun facial expressions, though.
And I will say that despite the questionable choices for covers, the texture rendering on them is pretty damn good. Of the covers I’ve seen, I think this one is my favorite; it’s got pretty cohesive shape language and a striking (if conventional) color palette. Plus I’m a sucker for ladies with huge shoulder pads, sorry!
Looking into this comic was definitely a trip, though. Thanks for the submission!
It’s time for Camilla from Fire Emblem to make another appearance.
She is given a promoted class in Fire Emblem Warriors with more cleavage. Apparently, she can be sexualized more, complete with “my eyes are up here.” Though unlike Fire Emblem Fates, she does remember to bring her axe and wyvern to her cut scenes in Fire Emblem Warriors, so silver lining.
Oh Camilla,.. it’s kind of amazing how much has and hasn’t changed since the last time you were given a bingo card. Mostly it just seems a few squares like Bared Belly have become ambiguous and more boob straps have been added.
They’ve also somehow managed to lean into the armor as sexy lingerie and remind you, in case you somehow forgot, that she has big boobs:
