I recommend you Dragon´s Crown
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(01-15-2014, 03:08 AM)LemmingofGlory Wrote: Or it might not be satirical at all, just sexist. Or maybe it's sexist AND satirical.

If I'm reading the art style, it looks like they were going for satirical (in the form of a kind of loving, over-the-top homage to Golden Axe) and just ended up in sexist territory because there are just very few checks on that kind of casual sexism, in the industry generally, and even less in Japan.

Quote:Here's an explanation for the artwork that argues for sexism, and it comes from the Japanese gaming market itself. My understanding is that their gaming market is viewed differently: everyone is a gamer. You don't have this marketing blindness that views girls who play games as "somebody's girlfriend who happens to have picked up a controller." The female gaming demographic is its own market. The sexualization of the Dragon's Crown characters, seen in this light, might be an attempt to appeal to different subsets. Sorceress/Amazon appeal to fans of hentai. The Elf appeals to fans of more ordinary anime/manga women. Wizard/Fighter appeal to fans of pretty pretty dorito-faced yaoi princes. The Dwarf appeals to, uh, an unusually specific niche of bara fans(?). With this view, the artwork sexualizes all characters, but perhaps not in a way that we expect as a western audience as the sexual appeal is intended to cast a wide net for Japanese gamers. As a western audience, we primarily see it as using women to titillate since the fact that the men are sexualized also isn't really registering for us.

Could be. I think the arguments for the male characters are quite a bit more stretched than the female ones - if I wanted to make a super bishonen yaoi knight, I think I'd make it a lot less subtle than the fighter currently is. The Japanese know their super-androgynous sexy male characters, and as an example, this one isn't very extreme at all. The armour is too protective, not enough skin, poses aren't sexualized enough. Especially for a game that's supposed to be about overwhelming, fantastic exaggeration...

Quote:I think he's saying that we have not ruled out that FIT may be a consortium.

Commune.

-Jester
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I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by gronbek - 01-08-2014, 10:20 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-10-2014, 09:01 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-11-2014, 05:05 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by gronbek - 01-11-2014, 11:07 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-13-2014, 01:50 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-13-2014, 11:38 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-13-2014, 04:44 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-13-2014, 10:35 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Frag - 01-13-2014, 11:56 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-14-2014, 12:51 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-14-2014, 02:09 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-14-2014, 12:46 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-15-2014, 12:32 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-15-2014, 01:37 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-15-2014, 03:06 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-15-2014, 03:20 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-15-2014, 12:15 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-15-2014, 09:10 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-13-2014, 05:56 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-15-2014, 12:44 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by gronbek - 01-15-2014, 07:55 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-15-2014, 04:28 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-15-2014, 04:08 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-15-2014, 08:44 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by gronbek - 01-15-2014, 07:05 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Tal - 01-15-2014, 09:28 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-16-2014, 01:24 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-16-2014, 03:35 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-16-2014, 01:32 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Lissa - 01-17-2014, 12:23 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Tal - 01-17-2014, 04:50 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-17-2014, 08:19 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Tal - 01-22-2014, 02:10 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-18-2014, 07:08 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Mavfin - 01-16-2014, 03:41 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-16-2014, 04:47 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-16-2014, 12:07 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Bolty - 01-17-2014, 01:32 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Jester - 01-18-2014, 04:57 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-17-2014, 03:41 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-17-2014, 10:29 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-21-2014, 05:35 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by DeeBye - 01-22-2014, 05:44 AM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by Mavfin - 01-23-2014, 04:39 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-27-2014, 09:26 PM
RE: I recommend you Dragon´s Crown - by shoju - 01-22-2014, 02:55 PM

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