So... It’s OK to sexualize and put these little girls, who all look like they’re between the ages 10-14, in sexy and revealing clothes (or lack there of); but a close-up of them being punched in the face, IN A FIGHTING GAME, is an issue? OK.
Can we seriously stop this shit already? Can.. can this shit just die? Do I have to start giving you PORN ACTRESSES that look as young as Marie and NiCO so this can just die off a goddamned cliff? Or the plenty of cosplayers who look almost perfectly like Marie and NiCO and they are clearly above 18? Or you actually venturing outside of your goddamned house and comfort spot?
I mean you can even read the reason and figure out that the reason isn't "Oh my these loli's getting hurt" nonsense. Just ARGH, I'm really, REALLY getting tired of that shit because even with all of my issues, I have seen alot of women who are of the same age and has similar proportions and even babyfaces like them. This just needs to die in a fire before I lose my shit.
Well, that raises another question. How did TN, a Japanese company, not see the backlash coming? If protecting da waifus is such a big deal in Japanese otaku culture, shouldn't TN have known beforehand that Marie Rose getting pimp slapped in slowmo would result in some form of nerd outcry? They shouldn't have designed Break Blows around the close-up in the first place if there was going to be any worries about censoring it with certain characters.
Also it's such a mess that this whole Break Blow debacle is being linked to RYONA... DOA always finds itself in sexual situations at the worst times, huh?
There's a difference between understanding there could be some backlash but not knowing how huge it can be. It's actually pretty damn understandable since you would never realize how some people will react to something negative but never notice JUST how much people don't like thing here.
And secondly, CAN WE STOP WITH THIS?! OMG, Why do people act like Dead or Alive corners the market on Ryona? I'm getting so tired of this because it really shows how little people even understand or bother to even see it. Dead or Alive does not corner Ryona in the slightest, EVERY. SINGLE. FIGHTING. GAME. HAS. POTENTIAL. OF. RYONA!
Every goddamned one is basically a Ryona shitstorm but no, it's fucking BREAK BLOWS that that somehow has ties to Ryona, get out of here with that man. You do realize that the Free Cam and Photo Mode has ties to Ryona too right? Or Bayman's grapples or when the characters crawl away after they are beaten or Bass and Tina's wrestling moves, etc.
Sigh, There's only so much of this I can take...
Japanese and American (I'm sorry but most times I read something like that is from American people) fans are the two sides of the coin. The first ones love these characters ... too much and the second ones hate these characters ... too much.
And everytime I read these characters they are "18" something dies inside me because is like that people never looked to real women like:
And she's 19.
Everytime I read a insinuation like that I can't help myself and I just find traits of misogyny
And that fits to what
@DestructionBomb is talking about. The WAY people are going about it can very easily be beyond cringe and just makes everyone look like misogynists... which is the VERY last thing people want to have plastered onto DOA.
He needs to stop trying to appeal to everyone, and instead focus on making a good game.
He hasn't yet learned he needs to do the former, and because of that lack of focus he doesn't know how to do the latter.
Shimbori does good work when he is single-minded on a task. But he's doing far too much, and KT has him worrying about too many things as both director and producer, while handling a bunch of projects unrelated to DOA as well. On a personal level, I worry for him.
As a fan of the franchise, though, I wish he would stop listening to the lowest common denominator, stop worrying about selling X amount of units, and remember what it means to make a good fucking game. That's how you get on top of the competition.
I honestly do a combination of himself and KT on this one. Shimbori can definitely improve... but at the same time the dude is not a PR guy... and Koei Tecmo just KEEPS making him the PR guy just like Hayashi and I honestly believe he's not a PR guy either. They are people who dedicate themselves to doing what they can best... but their best simply does not work because they don't know what the hell they are doing.
It's not helping as I feel KT is running the guy ragged and he's worrying about too much shit, shit he honestly shouldn't be worrying about.
It honestly reminds me how the NA Localizer for Fate Grand Order for NA is pretty much under the same eye from the Japanese version and has to do everything PR wise despite him just being a localizer, not PR and thus he gets judged for things that shouldn't be what he signed up for.
It just shows just how fucked KT is in this side of the coin but Shimbori seriously needs to put his foot down on WHO he's catering to.
Even Hayashi knew what he was catering to, plain and simple, Shimbori can even choose a mix but he shouldn't try and please both at once, it never works out.
