I preordered because I'm lesbian, and a game like this is right up my metaphorical wheelhouse.
A game where a modern-day schoolgirl gets isekai'd, becomes a samurai, and kicks incredible amounts of ass while romancing a cute foxgirl? Sign me the hell up! It doesn't hurt that miko and schoolgirl outfits are really cute.
The people complaining about censorship aren't applying their own standards evenly. EVERY translated game makes JKs into "college students" or whatever. Because here in the Western world, you aren't allowed to kiss or hold hands or go on adventures unless you're of age, and you LOOK enough like it to satisfy literal puritans.
And the people complaining about fanservice seem to think lesbians are all magical fairies in a realm full of glitter and pixie dust, whose love is pure and chaste and not meant for mortal eyes. Or more likely, that we aren't REAL. That we're just a straight man's fantasy, so any time we show up in games it's to sell more copies to straight men.
How do you not see that that's MORE fetishizing than having schoolgirls show pantsu and kiss?! I am not a bloody unicorn!
I want more games where anime girls are the protagonists, and get to be cute and awesome and horny for each other! I want more games where you play as a girl, and no one's in love with a man! Or where the guys are all robots and a talking mouse, like in Neptunia! And I would really like it if MALE REVIEWERS would stop pretending I don't exist, and shaming people for liking fanservice games. Because I'll take them any day over the torture porn of another Tomb Raider or The Last of Us, or a "wholesome" fluffy pastel game that makes being horny a sin.
Just to drive the point home, no one here in the comments would have complained about the cover if the magical girl were decapitating someone with her scythe.
@Vyacheslav333 What all of those games banned in Russia have in common (except Viewtiful Joe?) is yuri, or lesbian content. It's extremely unfortunate, but it seems the existence of gay girls and women is considered unacceptable to even mention in media there.
Here in North America and Western Europe, we are of course much more enlightened. So we always have a reason why anime girls being caring and affectionate towards each other is gross and perverted, and made by men for men just like Neptunia and Nekopara.
Lesbians are only allowed in our games if they are photorealistic, obviously of age in the US (not the UK), and going on a bloody murder spree across post-apocalyptic Seattle.
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I preordered because I'm lesbian, and a game like this is right up my metaphorical wheelhouse.
A game where a modern-day schoolgirl gets isekai'd, becomes a samurai, and kicks incredible amounts of ass while romancing a cute foxgirl? Sign me the hell up! It doesn't hurt that miko and schoolgirl outfits are really cute.
The people complaining about censorship aren't applying their own standards evenly. EVERY translated game makes JKs into "college students" or whatever. Because here in the Western world, you aren't allowed to kiss or hold hands or go on adventures unless you're of age, and you LOOK enough like it to satisfy literal puritans.
And the people complaining about fanservice seem to think lesbians are all magical fairies in a realm full of glitter and pixie dust, whose love is pure and chaste and not meant for mortal eyes. Or more likely, that we aren't REAL. That we're just a straight man's fantasy, so any time we show up in games it's to sell more copies to straight men.
How do you not see that that's MORE fetishizing than having schoolgirls show pantsu and kiss?! I am not a bloody unicorn!
I want more games where anime girls are the protagonists, and get to be cute and awesome and horny for each other! I want more games where you play as a girl, and no one's in love with a man! Or where the guys are all robots and a talking mouse, like in Neptunia! And I would really like it if MALE REVIEWERS would stop pretending I don't exist, and shaming people for liking fanservice games. Because I'll take them any day over the torture porn of another Tomb Raider or The Last of Us, or a "wholesome" fluffy pastel game that makes being horny a sin.
THANK YOU.
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Just to drive the point home, no one here in the comments would have complained about the cover if the magical girl were decapitating someone with her scythe.
Re: Review: Blue Reflection: Second Light - A Stunning-Looking Anime Adventure
@Vyacheslav333 What all of those games banned in Russia have in common (except Viewtiful Joe?) is yuri, or lesbian content. It's extremely unfortunate, but it seems the existence of gay girls and women is considered unacceptable to even mention in media there.
Here in North America and Western Europe, we are of course much more enlightened. So we always have a reason why anime girls being caring and affectionate towards each other is gross and perverted, and made by men for men just like Neptunia and Nekopara.
Lesbians are only allowed in our games if they are photorealistic, obviously of age in the US (not the UK), and going on a bloody murder spree across post-apocalyptic Seattle.