Bayonetta 2 - an expression of freedom and not sexism

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SlayerRondo said:

The reviewer may have been uncomfortable with what the game was trying to do, but I believe that a game reviewers should try to review games based on their quality rather than their themes. If a game can be criticized for being to sexual than can games like Gears of War and The Last of Us have points taken off for being to violent?

Let me know what you think.

Well duh! If I was a person who didn't like bloody and gory games and only liked G-rated content then obviously I would give TLOU and Gears and hundreds of other games a low review score because it was too violent. Themes are totally fair game as part of a review. Being a professional game reviewer would not be a goodf career choice given the overabundance of violent and very violent games. Unless of course I was setting myself up as a "family friendly reviewer".

Personally I have no interest in hypersexual games, so I would probably also mark the game down if I ever played it. I think games like this are fairly immature attempts at giving woman characters control over their sexuality. I don't know enough about the game to credibly comment on whether it's sexist or not. But a game that has heavy doses of sexiness and sexuality, made principally by guys is going to have me assuming guilty until proven innocent. IMO the number of men who can actually portray provocative female sexuality in a non-sexist way is very small in the generality of the entertainment sector and rare in the gaming sector. But it is possible at least in theory.