i am in extremely poor health btw

[helarxe]

am i the only dude left for whom bayonetta aint hot at all?

the firearms hurt my firearm aesthetic sense (maybe the whole point??)

lollipops were always a bit cringeworthy a fetishy thing for me, it's such a "YOUR FATHER'S FETISH FOR FATHERWANK" (think about it)

the hair clothing thing is just sick

also sarah palin

but now apparently iz feminist game ??

Comments

[kavitykrunch]

it's my understanding the game was intentionally so over-the-top in UGH SEXISM IN VIBBEO GAMES UGH that it entered the realm of a parody. and while I can't tell you whether the character is hot, I can tell you that the game excels at its over-the-topness and is simultaneously hysterical and mindblowing. *o*

[helarxe]

i playd it is average gaem :x

[helarxe]

also, can we still get away with stuff by claiming it's ironic? is the 10s the new 90s :o

[urwen_sakurafu]

Irony, or LIErony, liek, amirite?

Well, I can't speak for dudes, but...

[urwen_sakurafu]

Bayonetta is hot to me because she looks like a strange genetic splicing (I shouldn't use this word in this way after spending an hour discussing tRNA ligase, but...I spent an hour discussing tRNA ligase and another four reading a review paper, so bleeerghhhhhire1) of Perf and Keira Knightly. I have two disgruntlements

Re: Well, I can't speak for dudes, but...

[helarxe]

That's some smart point-making yo.

For Palinity, her face is a bit the generic not-soft female type so it's hard to take it as a particularity. It's more the smug """milfness""" that isn't really charming.

2) is like the gunplay's turn-off for me. It's very Suspension of Disbelief: REJECTED. Also, I imagine the guns are supposed to be like the hello kitty AK-47 and emasculate the male gamers and thus emancipize wimmens or something. I could dig that part if my experience with male gamers wasn't that they're jacking off (w/ misogynistic fantasies) like with any other babe@videogame.

The story is everything I'm against and it makes me want to buy a lot of pills and eat them.

Of course, whenever I post negative comments on any popular thing I feel like I'm taking something too seriously and holding a bit of fun to wrong standards, or even missing its point entirely. It happens.

Re: Well, I can't speak for dudes, but...

[helarxe]

I'm reminded of somebody thinking the point of Blood Meridian was to use over-the-top violence and evil to make a parody of the whole Life thing. You know, like Inglouriouses Bastrd.s

More of something is only more of something, tending to too much of something, and not something else except in very very special cases.

The point of Blood Meridian is the sawed-off shotgun thing.

Re: Well, I can't speak for dudes, but...

[urwen_sakurafu]

So it's a very blunt point then? :P I haven't read Blood Meridian

[vorzac]

meh, I liked the giant mecha-warship-lizard-thing you fight in chapter XII or whatever. looks like the bastard lovechild of the HMS victory and Alexander the Summon from Final fantasy.

Also the last boss has cheap black hole insta-kill attack that sucks. literally. Hurhurhur.

Lou, forget the pistols on her legs, you can strap goddamn ROKKIT LAUNCHAS on them later. *spolier*

Also the plot was so weak I was actually shocked to took such a heavily signposted plot-twist and DIDN'T subvert it, in a "you're suspecting a curveball, but instead, we're actually going to take you by surprise by doing the BLEEDIN' OBVIOUS!" sort of hamfisted idiot way.

This is kinda why I argue with my programmer friend that games aren't an artform yet. Wally: any thoughts or prostulations on how such a exaltation to that eschelon of 'not actually sucking' that the medium could learn from?

Addendum

[vorzac]

'things I didn't like' the 2nd,

suffers from DMC2-itis in that the bosses have absolutly no reason to be there other than for spectacle that would make most teenagers cack their pants.

*spolers*

the inclusion of a big bad who only turns up on the FINAL goddamn LEVEL.

*end-spolers*

also, half the fucking cast seem to turn up to say stereotypical one-dimensional lines about themselves, then fuck off.

Still, I want one of those Lumen Phantom of the Opera masks with attached Monacle.

conclusion

[vorzac]

this game is the equivalent of an interactive Michael Bay movie.

Re: Addendum

[helarxe]

It's all about powertrip & indulgence & smugness & spectacle, is it not :(

teh PISS principel