It still baffles me how limiting some people are with a female character's friggin wardrobe. 2B looks like that because it's a stylized video game in a stylized world and Yoko Taro wanted to give her a cool costume to wear. It's the same reason any clothing designer in real life makes clothes. I don't know how I feel about playing as a grossly objectified version of the creator's sexual fantasies who's dressed in a short skirt and high heels for no real reason. I have no problem with characters looking attractive if it's not immersion breaking. For me, it's squarely on the side of "cool looking for the sake of looking cool" that plenty of video game character of both genders embody. Sure, the outfit is sexy, but it's not over the top or absurd. Calling 2B "grossly objectified" is extreme hyperbole. In terms of over the top, immersion breaking outfits for female video game characters, there are far, far worse offenders than any of the characters in Automata. She had quite possibility the most outrageous and idiotic costume design I've ever seen in a video game character, and it was hard to take her seriously, despite otherwise being an interesting and well written character.Īll that being said, I never had these issues with 2B. One notable example of a character I otherwise thought was interesting but I just couldn't take seriously because of their outfit was Kaine from the first Nier. I have, on many occasions, found myself unable to take a character seriously because of their ridiculous sexy attire that no one would ever wear in the types of situations video game characters are often in. My issue with those types of characters is purely from a critical perspective, not a moral one. However, I do often think it's really dumb and treats the audience like horny morons rather than people looking for a meaningful experience. I'm not one to get "offended" by over-sexualized characters in media. It's not a stripping (no pun intended) of equality, but just an acknowledgement that the pendulum has often swung too far in the other direction and we might need a bit of a correction. It's why you could have something like magic mike but doing that with the genders swapped would not be cool in modern times. I personally don't think it's any sort of "unfairness" and just people realizing that the objectification of women has been much more of an issue than the objectification of men throughout human history and are therefore being more vigilant about it. #Nier automata 2b kaine full#I am however still interested in reading the article if you want to throw a link out to it.Īs for why male full frontal nudity does not draw ire like female nudity does, that is way too deep and a bit too much of a tangent to dive into and discuss here. Also, yoko taro's "I like girls comment" came after he was asked why she wears high heels, not as to what his sexual orientation was. If you grew up in the west or have had western media be a major force in shaping your perception of the world, that outfit looks like it's a french maid outfit. People are going to interpret things and derive meaning from them based on their own personal experiences and backgrounds. Is he supposed to say he likes dudes?Īdam has full frontal nudity but no one complained about that. Making a pretty woman is now objectifying women in games these days. As for the outfit she wears, Kotaku did a pretty good explanation of how it was influenced by Harajuku fashion and not just a skimpy french maid outfit which Abby keeps calling it. You don't actually look up her skirt to get the trophy, the trophy acknowledges the fact you tried to look up it so its your morals which are in question.
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