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[-] Kernel@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

While I don't like neutering an artist's vision in the name of conformity or commercial pressure, it's generally a wise business practice to avoid deliberately offending your potential audience. I suppose a healthy gaming franchise needs new users to thrive, and maybe toning down the excess will broaden the game's appeal.

[-] megabucks@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

That video you shared was great!

I agree that neutering an artist's vision is almost always a mistake, but I wonder if the artist's vision has changed with the times as well? Furthermore, with patches, updates, downloadable content, and expansion packs for games, at what point is a game, as a work of art, complete?

How do you even begin to preserve a work of art when it is constantly changing and evolving?

[-] senicar@social.cyb3r.dog 2 points 1 year ago

If an artist's vision is sexualized children, maybe that artist needs an eye exam.

[-] Cryst@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[-] senicar@social.cyb3r.dog 2 points 1 year ago

One character is explicitly underage and sexually assaulted in game. Another is the "she died young and is a ghost so she just LOOKS young but she's actually way older" trope.

[-] spaduf 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is definitely important in this case. While Skullgirls definitely has a following, it's a difficult game to turn on in a couch setting because to those unfamiliar with the game, the style could easily come off as predatory.

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