Posted on 06/07/2016 at 08:39 PM
| Filed Under Blogs
This is a weird topic for me because I'm actually in the camp where I don't care. I like playing a lot of anime JRPG games and they typically use sex appeal to sell them which is not something that appeals to me, it's just there, and I just accept it as a cultural difference, which is what I think happened with games like Fates. I don't knock a game down for making me uncomfortable, but I do mention that it makes me uncomfortable. I'm not talking about Bayonetta, but more or less of Neptunia type games where the protaganists look like toddlers made to look sexy. Even a lot of the Atelier games that I enjoy use very "sexy" imagery to sell them, but they aren't really sexual games at all. Also, there is a difference between "editing" and "censorship". If games are products, then companies can edit them to fit the region they are selling to. Australia is very strict about violent games for example and US is more conservative about sex, unlike Japan. Censoring art and editing a product are different things, but these two things get mixed when it comes to gaming.
This is from Atelier Sophie, a new game:
I read different reviews and can usually enjoy a game that has bad scores, so it doesnt mean much. However, if you're tight on a budget and see a new release get poor reviews, saving your money is very helpful. So I feel like reviews are important, if you veiw games as products and not art or whatever.