I mean, yeah maybe? I could be brain poisoned or I could just have enjoyed the game too much to have really noticed but the feeling it always gave me was just like, "welcome to the 1940s, women are objects" but then this woman is also such a badass that the men can't get away with it.
Up until now I didn't even know Filia was canonically underage tbh if you'd asked me to guess her age I'd have said at least 18 without batting an eye so I hadn't even considered that scene in that light.
Like I said though, not cut up about it. I will reinstall this evening and take a look at how they changed it.
I haven't seen the change, but if you look at the original cutscene, it's clearly a porn-brained depiction of sexual assault. You can feature sexual assault in your art, even have it be a main element, without depicting it in an eroticized manner.
I don't have an interest in judging your character, but at the same time I think I was reflexively a bit distressed because there's a piece of shit on this board that goes to incredible lengths to defend the depiction of rape (etc.) in Goblin Slayer as "progressive, actually," so I kind of thought "God damn it, not you too!" Just being oblivious is whatever.
Yeah, it's mechanically a really excellent game and artistically occasionally it is actually really good, but it looks like a hentai game and some characters are creatively bankrupt porn tropes (notably Filia, who is the protagonist, and Valentine, who is the stand-in for the main antagonist; the side characters tend to be way better).
I can't blame you one bit for not being able to stand it. I can so long as it's not the very-worst characters on screen.
I found something actually bad. They removed the Soviet Announcer
https://youtu.be/XDZm80V1Swg
Nothing in this was bad or warranted removing, corny and kinda shit yeah but ehh I don't think you can say this needed removed. The only reason I can see for this removal is that Mike Z voiced it and the staff probably all hate his guts.
Based on other trends in changes by the company, I think it was for being Mike Z. I really enjoyed the voice, it wasn't even particularly "soviet" but just "drunk Russian". I think it's only "Soviet" because Mike and some others have a very pop-history WW2 fetish.
My only other thought is, could be Ukraine-Booster brain rot ("Russia Bad"), or both-sides-ist "anti-extremism", since they're also removing fash elements.
You're better than this. That scene was clearly eroticized, which sexual assault shouldn't be, least of all child molesting.
I mean, yeah maybe? I could be brain poisoned or I could just have enjoyed the game too much to have really noticed but the feeling it always gave me was just like, "welcome to the 1940s, women are objects" but then this woman is also such a badass that the men can't get away with it.
Up until now I didn't even know Filia was canonically underage tbh if you'd asked me to guess her age I'd have said at least 18 without batting an eye so I hadn't even considered that scene in that light.
Like I said though, not cut up about it. I will reinstall this evening and take a look at how they changed it.
I haven't seen the change, but if you look at the original cutscene, it's clearly a porn-brained depiction of sexual assault. You can feature sexual assault in your art, even have it be a main element, without depicting it in an eroticized manner.
I don't have an interest in judging your character, but at the same time I think I was reflexively a bit distressed because there's a piece of shit on this board that goes to incredible lengths to defend the depiction of rape (etc.) in Goblin Slayer as "progressive, actually," so I kind of thought "God damn it, not you too!" Just being oblivious is whatever.
Lmao I do not defend Goblin Slayer. Completely with you there.
yeah just looked up that into and its super cringe panty shot shit and shes like underage
I tried that game when it was new and I liked the mechanics and ease of learning etc but damn playing it was too embarrassing tbh
When I saw the thing about them removing sexualization I had an image flash in my mind of the steam menu drop-down to "uninstall game files"
Yeah, it's mechanically a really excellent game and artistically occasionally it is actually really good, but it looks like a hentai game and some characters are creatively bankrupt porn tropes (notably Filia, who is the protagonist, and Valentine, who is the stand-in for the main antagonist; the side characters tend to be way better).
I can't blame you one bit for not being able to stand it. I can so long as it's not the very-worst characters on screen.
I found something actually bad. They removed the Soviet Announcer
https://youtu.be/XDZm80V1Swg
Nothing in this was bad or warranted removing, corny and kinda shit yeah but ehh I don't think you can say this needed removed. The only reason I can see for this removal is that Mike Z voiced it and the staff probably all hate his guts.
Based on other trends in changes by the company, I think it was for being Mike Z. I really enjoyed the voice, it wasn't even particularly "soviet" but just "drunk Russian". I think it's only "Soviet" because Mike and some others have a very pop-history WW2 fetish.
My only other thought is, could be Ukraine-Booster brain rot ("Russia Bad"), or both-sides-ist "anti-extremism", since they're also removing fash elements.