Inti Creates needs to be called out for the sexist treatment of their female characters and designs.

[Twenty5Thousand]

Recently I played through an excellent game of theirs, Bloodstained Curse of the Moon and was excited to play the sequel. And then I saw the character design for only new playable female character. After being totally disgusted by this I decided I'd rather watch some of the game than play it and sure fucking enough I find out not only is this character incredibly sexualized, but she also becomes a damsel in distress in the game. A god damn fucking object. This isn't the first fucking time Inti Creates has done this. For Blaster Master Zero 2, they decided to give the main female character a new design that heavily sexualizes her and the whole goal of the game is to, you guessed it, save her. I've also come to find out that Inti Creates are also the creators of the pedophile hentai game series Gal Gun and I don't even need to mention how trash that series is to female characters. I'll provide a picture below showing off some of these abhorrent female character designs.

Until I see a massive improvement of their treatment of their female characters, until all sexualized female characters are either removed from future games or heavily redesigned, and until they cancel the Gal Gun series, I will no longer support Inti Creates. They are a trash company for how they handle female characters in video games and I implore you all, other members of Resetera, to stop as well until a change is made.

 

[KillLaCam]

This looks and sounds like most random anime game female designs to me

 

[Kupo Kupopo]

This looks and sounds like most random anime game female designs to me

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agreed. if all these characters are 'abhorrent', then so are the ones in genshin impact, pretty much...

 

[Roliq]

Is so ridicolous how Eve (the character that OP mentions) goes from this

to this

Her chest has a "canon" reason for getting bigger: the infection that she gets at the beginning of the sequel which has to be the most stupid reason ever

Also in case you ask no, her chest "conveniently" stays the same after she gets cured

 

[HardRojo]

Yikes... yeah that's pretty much the reason I'm not touching Genshin Impact. And those designs in the OP, as a group, are definitely terrible. Like it'd be one thing if they were one design among plenty of decent ones, but nope.

 

[Forkball]

 

[Carpathia]

OP go an find the japanese preorder bonuses for Gunvolt games, what you posted is child's play in comparison.

 

[ReginaldXIV]

Is so ridicolous how Eve (the character that OP mentions) goes from this

to this

Also apparently her chest has a "canon" reason for getting bigger: the infection that she gets at the beginning of the sequel which has to be the most stupid reason ever

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I think it's universally agreed upon that the story of that game was extremely stupid despite being a good playing game lol

 

[Dremorak]

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Anime expert on the scene

 

[Cantaim]

OP go an find the japanese preorder bonuses for Gunvolt games, what you posted is child's play in comparison.

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I thought that was what the thread was gonna be about lol

 

[inspectah]

Is so ridicolous how Eve (the character that OP mentions) goes from this

to this

Her chest has a "canon" reason for getting bigger: the infection that she gets at the beginning of the sequel which has to be the most stupid reason ever

Also in case you ask no, her chest "conveniently" stays the same after she gets cured

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I would say the lower body focus of the first design isn't much better.

 

[Hedgey]

Have you ever seen anime?
Not saying it's okay by any means, but this is standard Japanese culture. Inti is following the trends, they're not specifically at fault here.

 

[JazzmanZ]

Have you ever seen anime?

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Being anime doesn't entail you to create garbage designs

 

[lucebuce]

I agree, anime needs to be called out for the sexist treatment of their female characters and designs.

 

[lvl 99 Pixel]

wtf is the character bottom right

this is standard Japanese culture.

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what

 

[Foffy]

The character in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 is not a "new" character, and her breasts were heavily criticized in the main Bloodstained game seeing as her attire made that focus absolutely ridiculous.

Dominique always looked stupid. I'd go as far as to say her look in CotM2 is better than her RotN look.

 

[grand]

After GalGun, I'm not sure what you expected

 

[Dice]

Some Japanese developers give absolutely so few fucks about this they almost make a special effort to outdo each previous embarrassing design.

 

[Deleted member 28386]

wtf is the character bottom right



what

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What do you mean what? That's how most abhorrent Japanese design goes here. I live in this country, even mascots for local real estate agents or adverts telling you to wear a mask has some dumb loli looking sexualized design. It's gross.

 

[grand]

Some Japanese developers give absolutely so few fucks about this they almost make a special effort to outdo each previous embarrassing design.

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The otaku culture has basically ruined any Japanese game that isn't aiming for a casual or international audience

 

[Deleted member 68874]

wtf is the character bottom right

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Bottom left is even worse imo.

 

[KDR_11k]

Honestly they should just have made Eve the main character of 2. Though IIRC the end of 1 pretty much shows that she's helpless without the hero Jason because some rando dude has to be better at everything.

wtf is the character bottom right

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A plant-based alien you run into in Blaster Master Zero 2.

 

[Rotobit]

the bottom right plant character is by far one of the most embarassing I've ever seen

to top it off she has a raising minigame, so she's like 0 years old I guess, and some of the alternate designs seem to be extremely questionable going by one of the other thumbnails I saw




Inti seems to have some genuine talent but yeah they must feel the need to cash in on the tasteless bucks. Bit of a shame since BMZ1 was a pretty solid early Switch game, and the Mega Man Zero games seem very well regarded.

 

[Yasumi]

I was expecting worse? This is honestly pretty mild considering how strongly worded the OP is.

 

[Messofanego]

When people try to normalise sexist designs by saying it's a Japanese culture thing, it's good to remind yourself that anime is also looked down upon in Japanese society and they don't have the best opinion of anime fans who are usually assumed to be hermit NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). It's just the industry is very insular and focused on catering to the whales who favour such designs and school nostalgia.

 

[grand]

wtf is the character bottom right



what

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[Adrifi]

We absolutely have to boycott these games and their sexist depict...

Wait-wait what? They are Japanese? Oh then it's fine.

 

[Hidant]

I agree, anime needs to be called out for the sexist treatment of their female characters and designs.

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I don't have much to add to this, but yeah it is sad how normalized it has become, you can see in some of the answers to this thread.

 

[Musubi]

Is so ridicolous how Eve (the character that OP mentions) goes from this

to this

Her chest has a "canon" reason for getting bigger: the infection that she gets at the beginning of the sequel which has to be the most stupid reason ever

Also in case you ask no, her chest "conveniently" stays the same after she gets cured

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That bottom design looks like they just hit the randomize button on a character creator and were like "Yeah,that's good."
What an absolute mishmash of nonsense costume design.

 

[Mesoian]

I don't think OP's desire to burn any relations they have with inticreates is unfounded. They've made it clear that they're going to lean heavily into the anime sexualization of their female characters in order to sell more copies to otaku culture.

But I will say, OP, that expecting them to change is foolhardy. They will not. They're proud of this.

 

[lairo]

I was expecting worse? This is honestly pretty mild considering how strongly worded the OP is.

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Yeah we're desensitized because every other JP media has women looking like that. But it's always been awful and needs to stop 30 years ago.

 

[Rosebud]

Well, they made Gal Gun VR...

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This is not Japanese https://twitter.com/thedeependgames

 

[Indy_Rex]

OP, you might need something more concrete than a bunch of rando female character designs, 90% of which are fully clothed and don't look remotely sexualized. Having tits does not mean "sexualized". You can create characters with breasts that aren't sexualized, just like you can create characters ~without them~ that can. Gal Gun is a good example, but... yeah, your visual representation is not exactly hitting the mark.

 

[Valkerion]

I'm well in the camp of "if you don't like it, don't buy it." Every country is in a different place in how it depicts... well everything no just women. I try to not be too judgmental about it and simply ignore or opt out of things I don't personally jive with. These smaller companies find their random niches and lean hard into them to survive, I understand it, but in turn, don't spend my money or attention on it.

Personally I find some of their designs so damn dumb it goes into the stupid pile. Giant watermelon boobs sure is a take I wasn't expecting to see though.

 

[Mesoian]

Have you ever seen anime?
Not saying it's okay by any means, but this is standard Japanese culture. Inti is following the trends, they're not specifically at fault here.

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LOL no it isn't. I can assure you, these designs are just as embarrassing in Japan as they are here. They're aimed at teenagers who think that titillation is the end all, be all of sex.

 

[Starlite]

OP, you might need something more concrete than a bunch of rando female character designs, 90% of which are fully clothed and don't look remotely sexualized. Having tits does not mean "sexualized". You can create characters with breasts that aren't sexualized, just like you can create characters ~without them~ that can. Gal Gun is a good example, but... yeah, your visual representation is not exactly hitting the mark.

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That most of them have breasts about the sizes of their heads with clothes that perfectly contour around their shape to accentuate them doesn't seem remotely sexualized to you? That is not a normal aspect of how clothes work.

 

[Sage]

Is this a parody of another thread / meme or is there something I'm missing?

 

[Mesoian]

Is this a parody of another thread / meme or is there something I'm missing?

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I mean...do you disagree?

 

[Starlite]

EDIT: accidental double post, my bad.

 

[Djalminha]

Is so ridicolous how Eve (the character that OP mentions) goes from this

to this

Her chest has a "canon" reason for getting bigger: the infection that she gets at the beginning of the sequel which has to be the most stupid reason ever

Also in case you ask no, her chest "conveniently" stays the same after she gets cured

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So those aren't boobs but sacks of pus? Because if so, I'd argue that is not sexualized but instead the grossest, least sexy idea ever.

 

[Rosebud]

That most of them have breasts about the sizes of their heads with clothes that perfectly contour around their shape to accentuate them doesn't seem remotely sexualized to you? That is not a normal aspect of how clothes work.

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lol, this reminded me the awful new Umineko art by MangaGamer

MangaGamer:

PS3:

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[Jane]

Looking at this picture, which one are you saying is sexist, OP?

EDIT: Upon further inspection, the boobs on the right two on the bottom row are pretty comically sized, lol

 

[LazyLain]

A couple of them are sexualized (plant girl for instance), sure... but most of those look pretty tame? The bulk of those are no worse than what's in something like Pokemon, at the very least.

 

[Mesoian]

Looking at this picture, which one are you saying is sexist, OP?

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I mean the plant with the giant tits which are literally a portmanteau for watermelons is pretty sexist.

Like, I don't have a problem with all of the designs in OP's example, but like...come on.

 

[KushalaDaora]

Have you ever seen anime?
Not saying it's okay by any means, but this is standard Japanese culture. Inti is following the trends, they're not specifically at fault here.

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I thought otaku (which these kind of designs pander to) is looked down in Japan.

But eh, I'm not an expert in Japanese culture.

 

[jonjonaug]

lol, this reminded me the awful new Umineko art by MangaGamer

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This is from a pachinko game or something. They couldn't get the rights to the console version, not MG's fault.

 

[Sage]

I mean...do you disagree?

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I've never played an inti creates game that wasn't Mighty No. 9 (which is offensive for many other reasons) so I have no idea how these characters are treated in the game and can only go off the picture you posted, but the most offensive thing about them is how generic they seem? Doesn't look like a big deal compared to something like Xenoblade really - they mostly seem to have far too large breasts and clothes which accentuate that which is a tasteless design choice but I have a feeling you're seeing the short skirts / dresses as sexualization which is a bit unfair.

I actually quite like the second character design on the middle row with the pink cape and the 2nd one on the bottom with the stylized features and tanned skin.

 

[Indy_Rex]

That most of them have breasts about the sizes of their heads with clothes that perfectly contour around their shape doesn't seem remotely sexualized to you?

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Again: Having tits does not inherently mean "sexualized". Breasts are a thing that exist, their mere existence does not inherently mean "sexualized". Like I pointed out: Gal Gun is a perfect representation of the argument that "sexualization != breasts", you can sexualize anything regardless of its design. It's the context that matters, not necessarily its design.

Most of those characters are fully clothed, in most cases completely covered and "conservatively dressed", and the ones I'd argue are cringe-worthy are the bottom left and bottom right characters which are either showing a little too much skin for an underage-type character design, or having 50% of its design just be tits + posing to highlight them.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

I'm a huge fan of Inti Creates and I thought this thread would be about Gal Gun, it's the one Inti series that I avoid.

 

[Rosebud]

This is from a pachinko game or something. They couldn't get the rights to the console version, not MG's fault.

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Oh didn't know that, thanks.

At least it's easy to mod.