Yeah GoW3 is known for its utterly blatant misogyny. That door scene even had a trophy attached to it, and the title was as gross as it gets. ("I didn't do it... but I wish I did!")
I mean, no, that's pretty reductive.
It does feel like they skipped the most interesting part of turning Kratos into a better person
I really dislike how 2018 give Kratos a pass for destroying all of Greece and with the themes of parenting they don't mention a single time that he had a previous wife and daughter that HE KILLED. The way everything is washed away and he gets redeemed is one of the reasons I don't plan on playing Ragnarok. They had a great chance of doing something really interesting with one of the arguably most horrible video game protagonist and they turned him into Viking Joel with an Axe
One of the reasons we need more women writers in games. Not just token writers, but the auteur level writers.
Sexualization vs objectification. It's possible for two properties to both be sexualized but have varying degrees of objectification. Bayonetta, despite its obvious faults, still acts like Bayonetta herself is a character first & foremost (albeit one who is designed around sexual preferences). Stellar Blade's characters, by contrast, are less characters than walking sex objects for its (presumed) male audience. The jiggle physics & camera angles make clear that objectification is the goal.
Objectification was always the goal for Bayonetta based on Kamiya's statements. And not just for Bayonetta, but like, Jeanne as well. Dude was even thirsty for the mocap actress. It was never about empowerment. It was always just Kamiya putting his fetishes on full display, and directed solely at a male audience. And honestly most of the excuses for "oh she has agency" doesn't apply to the cavalcade of anime characters who have an identical personality to her, identical framing, as well as identical framing so I have no idea why the gaming industry ever entertained the idea that Bayonetta was unique in anyway aside from the absolute dire state when it came to women protagonists. But it's 2022, not 2009. If we can acknowledge that Stellar Blade is blatant hetero fueled fanservice we can do the same for Bayo. All that said, Bayo 3 is way more toned down than the first two games. Like majorly toned down even without the censored mode on. Despite Platinum seemingly being completely unaware as to who Bayo actually appeals to outside of their intended target audience...that's seemingly progress. And Viola is a major goofball which is great cause I absolutely expected a derivative of Vergil or for her to be the typical character action game rival. She genuinely has the most unique personality i've seen in this genre given how so many of the characters are derivatives of Dante. More protagonists like Viola in this genre please. 😩
Oh, I was definitely not arguing that Bayonetta wasn't objective. Rather that it's a varied degrees of objectification between Bayonetta & Stella Blade.
There are a LOT of words said about the second game from people who...didn't actually play it. Like even within the first 10 or so hours Kratos is more critical of himself, his upbringing, and his actions than he was in 2018 because he can actually have conversations with Atreus now that the latter is a teenager. I honestly don't get the takes that Kratos in the last game should've explicitly told a 10 year old explicit specifics of the awful things he's done.
Well, Ni No Kuni 2 is on Switch! Something I appreciate about Level-5 games like that is that they're anime games without the objectification.
I believe Ring Fit Adventure has RPG elements, though I don't know if your kid wants a fitness game in their role-playing game.
