Hmm there's actually a lot here to address, and I'll try to do so in as patient a manner as I can muster. I've skimmed the conversation that TheDukester13 was having here, and for the most part I agree with him, and I think you might be misinterpreting what he's saying. This isn't bad; his type of thinking is often…

Sexualizing women and turning them into caricatures of things that you need to protect or get off on as a monolith is more offensive than saying that's offensive, IMO.

I've been suffering through this myself. I keep a few on my desk - mostly Pokemon, a couple Star Wars, plus a random Dodge Charger Matchbox car - but then I have more on my bookshelf, a couple on my TV... I like to imagine that they look good with my decor (lol).

"This is a fantasy setting." Oh nooo.... While this is a common argument for fantasy worlds being assholes (haha, no black/asian people allowed unless theyre mysterious Other races! Women suck!!) it's quite fallacious. The fantasy world where women are fainting sex objects that can't take care of themselves was…

Fictional characters created by men aren't real women. There's a huge difference. Please don't try to make it out like fictional women need to be treated with the same respect that real women do.

Oh, the art direction is very good. I've personally enjoyed Vanillaware's previous titles a lot. And I don't think TheDukester13 is saying the game is terrible because it has sexy women in it.

No... what's being said is that fictional characters deliberately created by a male developer team to be sexy, shallow, and scantily clad were created with the intention of titillating a male audience. And shockingly, this makes women who want to play the game uncomfortable.

Sexy, curvy, scantily-clad women are a male sex fantasy. Big, buff dudes that are the hero are a male power fantasy. You put yourself in the strong guy's shoes - the women who are sexually interested in a cartoonish caricature of a strongman are few and far between.

Women who are made uncomfortable by the sight of their entire being/gender reduced to "sex object here for you to look at and enjoy" isn't someone going out of their way to be offended. Surprisingly enough: women want to be able to enjoy a power fantasy just as much as men do.

A call for awareness and acknowledgement that this is a ridiculously widespread issue that's offensive and belittling to 50% of the population is hardly censorship.

I seriously doubt anyone, much less a woman attending Yale, would be broken up over you not calling them. Where are these false rape accusation statistics coming from?

Precisely this. Be as angry as you want but don't heap it upon the person in your sights just because they happen to be a symptom of the problems making you angry. It will just confuse them at best and completely put them off/scare them at worst. There is a time and place for anger, and one-on-one discussions with…

Hate to be the hater but... Lord, this is some amateurish looking art.

Probably because superhero comics have been largely populated by white characters for a long time, and usually when there's an attempt to make a New Hero that's a POC the effort falls flat on its face because the writers make some sort of ridiculous heavy-handed reference to the character's race in their goddamn…

I laughed at "sexy Caucasian skeleton" - points for effort, none for accuracy. Caucasian is an inaccurate term to use if you meant she looks White, and while she's definitely white, that doesn't necessarily make her White. I'd say her coloring is due to her being a skeleton rather than anything to do with her race.

Gyroids are apparently modeled after "haniwa" - Japanese clay dolls buried with the dead. So when you dig up gyroids, you're digging up graves. Fun!

This exactly. CD keys, update downloads, whatever - this is all old hat for PCs. One of the points of consoles is bypassing all that, allowing for simplified plug-and-play experiences with little to no waiting for content involved.

I was actually on the fence about it until I saw this comment and the replies. So, thanks!

Same. I would happily pay for an English release... it looks hilarious. Or at least like it has a good sense of (self-deprecating) humor.

Of course I did. And then I was immediately depressed by the slew of people recommending it. There are no true sarcasm marks on the internet, and frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone recommending it just saw it as another "chill out, racism is just for lulz!" comment.