7th April 2017, 12:35 PM
I've recently watched not one but two Studio Ghibli movies where female leads go from a big city to a country town. Even "it's the Japanese culture" isn't an excuse for that... excuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yeste...1991_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Marnie_Was_There
I actually do accept the excuse that it costs a LOT more to have a female character playable, and even more depending on the amount of voice acting and motion capture involved. But, that only goes so far. When there's a clear gender gap, that excuse just leads to the question "okay then, but why do you pick a male lead so much more often than a female lead?".
I'll grant that Nintendo does a pretty good job not sexualizing it's female characters. Well, for the most part. The Zero Suit is the worst thing to happen to Samus since Ridley killed her entire family, I'm recently realizing. (This is called hyperbole, before anyone takes it too literally.) Intelligent Systems? I can't say the same for them. They've gotten worse and worse over the years, and not just in terms of that, but their storytelling is just so... paint by numbers now.
I've never actually bothered with the Persona series. They kinda lost me at "kids shoot themselves in the head to gain access to a magical world", and I never checked in since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yeste...1991_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Marnie_Was_There
I actually do accept the excuse that it costs a LOT more to have a female character playable, and even more depending on the amount of voice acting and motion capture involved. But, that only goes so far. When there's a clear gender gap, that excuse just leads to the question "okay then, but why do you pick a male lead so much more often than a female lead?".
I'll grant that Nintendo does a pretty good job not sexualizing it's female characters. Well, for the most part. The Zero Suit is the worst thing to happen to Samus since Ridley killed her entire family, I'm recently realizing. (This is called hyperbole, before anyone takes it too literally.) Intelligent Systems? I can't say the same for them. They've gotten worse and worse over the years, and not just in terms of that, but their storytelling is just so... paint by numbers now.
I've never actually bothered with the Persona series. They kinda lost me at "kids shoot themselves in the head to gain access to a magical world", and I never checked in since then.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)