| curl-6 said: Strawman. Show me where I've ever said anything about Silent. |
Show me where I claimed you, specifically, had.
I'm saying it's a copout because you are using a manufactured persona to vito the dress sense and suggestive actions of a game character, that doesn't work.
Also a camera panning around the characters crotch, ass, and breasts has nothing to do with enpowerment or a show of power from the character and everything to do with using the character to sell the game., as you put it "sexuality is a selling point", in this case the needless sexualized events are used (mainly in advertising, most notably) to sell the game, it is reduced in that sense, from a powerful woman figure to simply using said womans appeance and actions as a selling point.
Don't misunderstand however, I don't particularly care what they do with the character, or how women are perceived, treated or portrayed in games, they are after all, only games, but there is a clear cut difference between empowerment and abuse.
Which would you call this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkdNzuf7Ftc#t=1m13s
I'd love to hear how blatent forced S&M is considered empowering.
To be very specific, the entire scenario plays out with japanese historical torture, in particular the "Wooden horse", where the victim is bound and forced to carry their entire body weight by the crotch on a jagged or serated edge, which is played out exactly as noted in historical accounts, in the game.
