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Re: There'll Be More Senran Kagura Bursting Onto the Scene in 2016

Miiamoto

@ZenTurtle I don't think Senran Kagura promotes sexism in the same way that I don't think the Saw films promote mutilating and killing people. The audience enjoy watching people die in the most grusome ways in those films and may get a strange enjoyment from the experience, but when they leave the cinema they don't suddenly believe the type of behavior they have seen is acceptable, nor do they try to emulate it.

We know we can't fly, we know it's wrong to kill people, or drive off a bridge, we know we can't shoot lazers out of our eyes. The nature of this type of fantasy is that it is an expression of something impossible, not a road map leading to the normalising of mass murder or the enslavement of womankind.

The very idea of scantily clad female ninja's running around fighting giant demons is ridiculous and kitsch, and no one playing these games takes its tongue in cheek portrayal of women seriously or believes it represents any real world situations.

Re: There'll Be More Senran Kagura Bursting Onto the Scene in 2016

Miiamoto

@ZenTurtle Are you equally outraged by Call of Duty normalizing guns, or Street Fighter for normalising violence and unrealistic male body types? If not you're a hypocrite, but if you are, then you have missunderstood gaming:- It's a fantasy, it's an escape from reality.

You don't normalize something by sticking it in a videogame, instead you fictionalise it, it leaves reality and it becomes a parody. You can't hold the fantasy world of vidogames to the same set of rules as real life, after all, what use is a fantasy that can't break free from the the real world?

If you object to Senran Kagura then you object to freedom of thought, freedom of expression and to videogames as a medium.

Peace out.

Re: Feature: A Year in Development - Shin'en Multimedia

Miiamoto

When such a tiny team can create something so beautiful and so technically impressive, it really exposes the big third parties and their lazy, ineptitude.

I really hope they get the sales they need to make this a worthwhile endeavour. We need talented indies to have the confidence to make these kind of ambitious games and show the big boys how it's done.

Re: Sales for Dementium Remastered Have Been Much Lower Than Expected

Miiamoto

"Although most Renegade Kid games have been fairly well received and advertised, some factor is just preventing them from really catching on with gamers."

...And that factor is them repeatedly making unappealing games.

Example: Mutant Mudds - Play as an ugly pixel art rendition of a stupid dork and travel through a generic, uninspiring world, while battling bland enemies made of mud. Who'd of thought a game like that would put people off?

Re: Rumour: PEGI Rating Outs the Development of a Tharsis Port for Wii U

Miiamoto

I'm happy that its comming, but I'm far from convinced by the trailer. Turn based strategy is the best thing in the world when it's done right, but it can just as easily be the worst, so the dev team really need to know what they're doing to pull this genre off.

...Dice rolls and ugly character models are certainly an ominous sign, but fingers crossed.

Re: Review: Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U)

Miiamoto

@rjejr The mention of 20 hours was not talking about completion time, but rather the reaching of a significant milestone (being vague as you seem to be avoiding spoilers). It sounds like it'll be as massive as the last game.

Re: Review: Stella Glow (3DS)

Miiamoto

9 huh? This wan't really on my radar, but this review was so positive that I guess I'm going to have to add it to the vast amount of RPG's I'll be getting on 3DS over the next few months.

...I'm going to be so broke!