Forlorn Drifter wrote:Back on topic, lets bring up "Dragon's Crown", the PS3 and Vita game. How do you guys feel about that, specifically the way they show the sorceress?
I think people who criticize a game before playing it are doing the arts a huge disservice.
Anyways, it seems to me those that criticize Dragon's Crown art direction haven't really asked themselves why the game looks like it does. It's a well made game, by a good artist and the exaggeration is so obvious that simply deriding the game as fanservice makes you a shallow critic in my mind. There's a lot to say about the artwork, from the medieval painting influences to Mickey Mouse in a came from Fantasia. This is not a dumb game from the looks of it and
In a sense this is like seeing a panel by Frazetta and only noticing asses and breasts. It's so reductive so as to be worthless.
Because there's a lot to think about in this game. The buxom sorceress is buxom for a reason and players will probably be told that she's a necromancer. A necromancer, someone who gives unnatural life, so it only makes sense to draw her as a fertility goddess, with giant mammaries, which also ties into the sexual subcontext of wizardry and witches as a whole, a good explanation for her tough, dominatrix attitude. Witches aren't good, nice christian women but corrupted succubus who lure the unsuspecting and weak.
It's not exactly subtle yet few talk about it, or how the Knight is a clear "bishonen in shiny armor" stereotype, with his raw power turned into cuteness when he takes off his helm and his fair hair flows in the air. I mean, goddamn, you can't get any more obvious than that!
That I notice this and reviewers who have actually played the game doesn't makes me very sad when it comes to the analysis of the arts.
AppleQueso wrote:I pointed it out before, but if male characters were designed to appeal to women in the same way female characters are designed to appeal to men, male characters would look more like all those prettyboy JRPG protagonists.
So muscled firefighters aren't attractive to women? Guess all those shirtless scenes are for male fantasies then!
Some feminists are obssesed with talking for all women and deciding for them what they should find attractive instead of recognizing everyone has a different taste. Some women like prettyboys, others like charming devils and muscled manly men. This is not surprising and you don't need to read
Twilight to realize it, just talk to women.
The same goes for men. Not everyone likes the hot bombshell stereotype, some like the cute neighbour instead. Putting everything in two boxes as if they were the only options is a silly way to approach things and also tends to ignore the LGTB side. Hard to complain about tits when other women foam over them as much as I do
TL;DR. It's not as simple as "male fantasy/female fantasy".
