24th June 2007, 6:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 24th June 2007, 8:39 AM by Great Rumbler.)
Quote:A magical RPG "for girls" eh?
It's a "magical girl" RPG. Meaning that it features girls with magical powers.
For reference, this genre includes series like Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon.
Koji Igarashi does make two good points in that interview. One is that, in general, there have been very few female figures that are considered to be "heroes" in the same way as some of the male figures [i.e. strong, corageous, valiant, bashing bad guys with maces and so on], aside from a few very rare exceptions such as Jean d'Arc. In that sense, having a female character in a medieval setting is a bit unrealistic.
Also, his mention of females in the classic vampire stories are almost always either sacrifices to raise vampires to life or aas prey for said vampire. The vampire is then defeated, usually by a Van Helsing. Modern vampire stories have bucked this trend to some extent, however.
On the other hand, Castlevania is a game where you fight three-headed hellbeasts with a whip not some documentary on medieval hero figures. And all of the games have been made within the past fifteen years; they're not some 19th century story written in a time when a great many things were much different than they are today.
Meaning, his rationalizations are non-sensical at best.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.