The public still doesn’t know which images were censored or to what degree they were edited, but Atlus wants us to take their word for it: According to them, they had to make minor edits to a few images in order to avoid crossing that AO rating which would make the game unsellable. Philip’s next point goes over Atlus’s censorship of the game for the ESRB. Sure, there are a few suggestive outfits among the girls, but the most ‘sexual’ thing I saw there was two girls relaxing in a hot spring, which could have very well been a scene of skinship, a concept foreign to Westerners but is normal practice among Japanese people. This trailer he uses as evidence doesn’t provide sufficient evidence to me for his claim. I’m still waiting for my copy of Moe Chronicle, but I digress. What he sees as a problem is actually par for the course for games like this, and as I’ve said before, the PlayStation Vita is the de facto home for some of the most niche games out there. Kollar, who I’m going to guess possesses some strong progressive and feminist views. This sort of game isn’t going to appeal to someone like Mr. Let’s make no mistake, Dungeon Travelers 2, like Conception II, is a niche moe Japanese RPG. As you can see in the trailer below, Dungeon Travelers 2 presents its hand-drawn female leads in various states of undress and, beyond that, in full-on sexual situations. Cool! However, like Conception 2, the main character is a dude, and the women are primarily presented as things for him to interact with they’re in the game to be rescued, fought or used in combat rather than acting on their own.Īnd above all else, they’re in the game to be ogled. Let’s start with the cast: Dungeon Travelers 2 is that rare RPG that mostly stars women. So what is Philip’s problem with Dungeon Travelers 2 ? Kollar were to review Dragon’s Crown today, would he have docked points for the sorceress’ sex appeal, just as Arthur Gies infamously did for Bayonetta 2? There are times when the two major tabloid game news sites are so similar in their narratives that they are indistinguishable, other than their names. Having played Dragon’s Crown myself, there was no point at which I felt the stylistic choices of the artists hampered the game in any way. This comment reminds me very much of Jason Scherier’s condemnation of Dragon’s Crown back in 2013, but his article was far more insulting to Vanillaware’s artists. I’m going to play devil’s advocate here, as I always do. He loves the hand drawn art style, but doesn’t seem to care for the exaggerated proportions of the female characters, which he feels drags the game down. In practice, Conception II’s concept of procreation is by far the most innocent method of doing so I’ve ever seen in a video game - aside from when you drop off your Pokemon to mate with Dittos in the daycare center to create clones.ĭragon’s Crown also gets criticism from Mr. But then he goes on to say that he finds games like Conception II disturbing, because the idea of “classmating”, or performing a magical ritual with your female classmates to make star children, bothers him. Kollar praises Atlus as a niche games publisher, because they brought us the Shin Megami Tensei franchise (which includes spin-off series like Persona ) that has become so beloved over the years. A picture is worth a thousand words, they say, but does that really tell the whole story?Īt first, Mr. “ Atlus can do better than this creepy, porn lite dungeon crawler” certainly is an eye catcher of a headline, complete with picture of a cutesy anime girl, half-naked with some underboob going on. And then I remember that tabloid news sites (especially game news sites) don’t have particularly high standards for content, peddling whatever headline happens to catch the most attention and clicks from its potential viewers. When I look at the state of mainstream journalism, there are opinion and news articles out there which leave me scratching my head. (NOTE: All quotes in this rebuttal are taken from the original piece.)
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