durr, it’s a bug. They created an awesome and complex skill system, and someone found a loophole in it. it’s not “bad game design” if it wasn’t designed

it’s not “male gaze”, it’s this in manga form:

I really really hope for something like Assault Suit Valken, but with that graphics. It would be so. fucking. awesome.

you are welcome, I wasn’t against your point, I’m against the idea that “male gaze” is something we should strive to get away from in games. Vanilla games are very unique and would lose a lot of their uniqueness without that art direction

historically there’s a clear relation between maternity and sexuality, hence the more prominent role of the woman body in art in that sense.
usually, naked woman = symbol of fertility, naked man = symbol of physical strength

guess what gender is the one that can generate babies and so, since humans are able to draw, was always seen as the figure of maternity? 

sure dude, sure

they’re naked because it let’s the artist do pretty pictures like those. And I’m totally cool with it. Again, it’s Vanillaware. It’s their thing. Their games are unique for this exact mix of stuff

oh, you mean like the Dwarfs from Dragon’s Crown?

This kind of art is as embedded in Vanillaware and Kamitani style as it’s broad brush strokes and dark hues. It’s a mix between renaissance paintings and manga. It’s Vanillaware’s style. It’s fair to not like it, you can just not buy it.

errr... the one on the left is clearly a guy.
Besides, it’s George Kamitani. Male gaze? Have you ever played a Vanillaware game? It’s like complaining that an hentai manga shows sex scenes

it’s a modern version of the engine, GZDoom, itself a fork of ZDoom that was one of the first “modern” doom engines. It supports 3d acceleration, mouselook, texture filtering, higher resolution, colored lights and a lot of stuff that the original could never have, like true polygonal models. So it’s not really Doom,…

that was obvious even from the thumbnail, dooms mod scene has moved away from the original engine something like 17 years ago

well sure, it’s an opengl engine that can read the doom wad format and maps, but besides the graphics, a ton of logic is still Doom’s

well, someone also remade Half-Life 1 with the Doom engine, so this seems about right:

It’s a very accessible game, but it’s true that most people just go on with spamming continues and allies and go like “uh, this game is stupid”, it’s a game that hides a bit too much it’s depth, they should have added a separate “mode” with no cpu allies and a “1cc” mode with no continues

“with the game just reviving you if you died”
The thing is, it’s not “the game” that revives you if you die, it’s you. You CAN buy continues, and you CAN choose to have allies, so you can have a very easy game you can steamroll if you want, but that doesn’t mean the game lacks depth or skill. It’s designed to be…

are you sure you want to do that?

It’s a great game, the best beat em up ever made probably, but there are several VERY questionable design decisions

I’m not implying anything, you are drawing your conclusions. It could also be C: wanted to sneak a KEK meme in the game for the lulz