'Ghost of Tsushima' is a real tease but doesn't go as far as full frontal.
This is not even the only time we've been robbed of a video game penis this month. Last week, Death Stranding, Kojima's uncanny game about Norman Reedus being a futuristic Amazon delivery guy, came out on PC. If you've played it, you know that piss is an important commodity in the early game, and that the player can choose to make Reedus pee on command. On consoles, this animation was always framed from the back, keeping it PG. On PC, with players being able to hack and move the camera around, we got to finally see Kojima Productions didn't render a penis for Reedus. When you turn the camera around, he's peeing out of a ghost dick.
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Video games often will portray female characters in revealing clothing or completely nude, if only to titillate a particularly horny segment of its audience that's into that kind of thing. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it would feel a lot more fair if games like Ghost of Tsushima just went the extra step and at least gave us the option to see Sakai's dick.
Would it be accurate to say western made video games often portray women characters like that the past few years?
I think western games mostly stopped portraying women like that after some certain feminist youtube videos about tropes become popular. And those same videos that were often called 'basic feminism 101' say that equal opportunity objectification is not the answer. That means no penis. You should be appreciating the protagonist's character as a full and complete human being, not reducing him to his reproductive organs. (If you claim it's possible appreciate both reproductive organs and character in the same game I would agree with you but feminist media theories usually present this as a choice of one or the other, can't do both.)
Actually, the male butt we do see in this game is still problematic and I think it should be patched out to save and protect men from the harmful video game. At least until everyone agrees it is fine again for western video games to include content designed to titillate any straight men who happen to be in the audience. Once that happens they should patch the butt back in.
Would everyone agree there is nothing inherently wrong if the next Horizon game or Tomb Raider game let the player see the protagonist naked a bunch in a bunch of baths or hot springs placed around the game world with a gameplay benefit for using them? I get the feeling that would be a controversial decision that would never happen because of the controversy and popular medai theories about what's sexist/harmful to put into a video game, despite the fact that a bunch of people would really enjoy that content. I don't think this would happen even if we only see her butt.
If this type of content is fine with men characters it should be fine with women characters. If this type of content is not fine with women characters it should not be fine with men characters. I don't think men and women should be treated differently by media because I am not a sexist.
What is the last AAA game made by a western developer with a woman playable character that let the player see that protagonist completely naked with full frontal nudity? Anybody know the answer to this trivia question? (I don't.)
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