Strategic butt-coverings in video-games

Well, thank god you pixelated it.

Anyway, the fact that you can find positive reviews seems irrelevant to the point being made. You can’t categorize video games into feminist vs not - it’s not binary.

And it’s not cherry picking to find the overused tropes in a game that is otherwise quite good. If anything, it’s more significant that a game which seems to be taking deliberate steps to improve relative to earlier iterations nevertheless indulges in butt shots. The whole point of Tropes vs Women is to highlight overused tropes. If a game is included in one of these videos, that doesn’t mean it’s bad or anti-feminist. It doesn’t even mean that Sarkeesian doesn’t like it. It just means that it’s an example of the trope. And, in this case at least, it probably means that the people doing cinematics & in-game camera will at a minimum think about this video when making the next iteration

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