Square Enix’s heroine embodies an age-old issue developers have with women in video games

Square Enix’s heroine embodies an age-old issue developers have with women in video games.

  • HidingCat@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Don’t let some people put you off.

    Unfortunately I don’t have an opinion on this, as I’m not into these games. I do note that Japanese games (and anime for the matter) can still be very fanservice-heavy, and I won’t be surprised that servicing the male fantasy is still one of the key points of the design.

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      I live in Japan and have for years, and trust me, it’s not just games and anime - most media has a very objectifying way of looking at and treating women (even on the news, they’ll have older but and very young women for the presenters), and women are often written in a very two-dimensional way that seems very geared for how the writers WANT women to be, not how women actually are.