Salt never dies. No, before you ask, I haven't spent the past year and three months raging about this game, but seeing the thread about the royal edition brought back many... fond... memories. And no one ever seems to bring it up even though it's one thing that the patches and DLC haven't managed to fix. But hey, at least you can drive your car off-road now!
Final Fantasy XV is one of the most misogynistic games I've ever had the displeasure of playing. Let us count the ways.
1. Luna
Luna, the game's "heroine" was touted by Tabata as a Stronk Femail Character(TM). We know this is true because she looks determined for 0.2 seconds and then dies. Literally EVERY FUCKING ONE of her like three scenes bar one was about Noctis and how much she loves him. If it weren't for her talking with Not!Hillary Clinton about the Altissia invasion the game wouldn't have passed the Bechdel test (which requires a scene where two female characters talk about something other than a man). And the Bechdel test is a low fucking bar. She shows up in like three scenes. She cries a bunch. Then she dies so Noctis can feel bad. This is a classic case of "stuffed into the fridge" (more commonly abbreviated as "fridging") which is a misogynistic trope where a female character is murdered for the male hero's manpain. It's gross. And some people on GAF tried to mansplain to me about how she was totally a feminist icon. It was beautiful :')
2. Cindy
Ah, Cindy. Do I even need to explain Cindy? Cindy is terrible. The first person to tell me I'm a filthy slutshamer and not a real feminist for criticising her outfit is getting keelhauled. And they didn't even have the good grace to make her THE Cid. Nope, she's just his eyecandy granddaughter. Classy.
3. Gentiana
Gentiana had an interesting personality and a great design. Then she turned into Shiva. What massive glaciers you have, Gentiana! It was nice while it lasted, I suppose.
4. Aranea and Iris
They're actually good for the most part, although Aranea's design and the way the main characters talk about her is just u g h.
5. The party members
Dear Gladiolus, IT'S TIME TO STOP! Prompto too honestly. They won't fucking shut up about how hot Cindy is or whether Aranea has a boyfriend or how the women in Lestallum (who work in a fucking power plant in ASSLESS CHAPS) are built. And of course, Tabata himself said that there couldn't be a female party member because then it would alter the male pureness of their dynamic or some such nonsense, even though the female guest party members prove this isn't true at all.
Let us not forget the iconic quote "people say Cindy is too sexy yet they want female party members. That seems contradictory to me" oh my god fuck off.
Yes I'm still bitter. I'm especially bitter that none of the guys splooging about FFXV seem to give a shit that one of the most successful games of the past year is a misogynistic dumpster fire. It's kind of important, ya know?
Final Fantasy XV is one of the most misogynistic games I've ever had the displeasure of playing. Let us count the ways.
1. Luna
Luna, the game's "heroine" was touted by Tabata as a Stronk Femail Character(TM). We know this is true because she looks determined for 0.2 seconds and then dies. Literally EVERY FUCKING ONE of her like three scenes bar one was about Noctis and how much she loves him. If it weren't for her talking with Not!Hillary Clinton about the Altissia invasion the game wouldn't have passed the Bechdel test (which requires a scene where two female characters talk about something other than a man). And the Bechdel test is a low fucking bar. She shows up in like three scenes. She cries a bunch. Then she dies so Noctis can feel bad. This is a classic case of "stuffed into the fridge" (more commonly abbreviated as "fridging") which is a misogynistic trope where a female character is murdered for the male hero's manpain. It's gross. And some people on GAF tried to mansplain to me about how she was totally a feminist icon. It was beautiful :')
2. Cindy
Ah, Cindy. Do I even need to explain Cindy? Cindy is terrible. The first person to tell me I'm a filthy slutshamer and not a real feminist for criticising her outfit is getting keelhauled. And they didn't even have the good grace to make her THE Cid. Nope, she's just his eyecandy granddaughter. Classy.
3. Gentiana
Gentiana had an interesting personality and a great design. Then she turned into Shiva. What massive glaciers you have, Gentiana! It was nice while it lasted, I suppose.
4. Aranea and Iris
They're actually good for the most part, although Aranea's design and the way the main characters talk about her is just u g h.
5. The party members
Dear Gladiolus, IT'S TIME TO STOP! Prompto too honestly. They won't fucking shut up about how hot Cindy is or whether Aranea has a boyfriend or how the women in Lestallum (who work in a fucking power plant in ASSLESS CHAPS) are built. And of course, Tabata himself said that there couldn't be a female party member because then it would alter the male pureness of their dynamic or some such nonsense, even though the female guest party members prove this isn't true at all.
Let us not forget the iconic quote "people say Cindy is too sexy yet they want female party members. That seems contradictory to me" oh my god fuck off.
Yes I'm still bitter. I'm especially bitter that none of the guys splooging about FFXV seem to give a shit that one of the most successful games of the past year is a misogynistic dumpster fire. It's kind of important, ya know?
