BLITZEN'S PROFILE

Miranda from Mass Effect is even a bit much.

I think that hypersexuality in games should be understood in the context of the game as a simulation. The game, in addition to the incumbent set of game design rules, simulates a social interaction when the player interacts with other anthropomorphic figures.

The game designer is allowing the player (or through the design process, himself) to have an interaction with a sexually attractive woman. This simulation could supplement the experience (or lack thereof) of mate selection in waking life, and provides a proxy for male-female socialization. For the male player, it could be said the chance to interact with or manipulate a sexually attractive woman is an outlet for their own unfulfilled sexual desires. The designer crafts the experience for himself and then allows the player to participate through the design.

Because the female audience isn't involved in this male designer-character-player relationship, they are essentially alienated from the sexual feedback-loop between the male-gendered player as the manipulator, and the female-gendered simulation as the manipulated. Appropriate feminist models would simply need to reverse the roles, as is the case in point with the "Hey, Baby" video game where the female player is at will to manipulate the male-gendered simulation.

Quite simple, really.

Complete demo.

I really enjoyed this for what it was and found it quite innovative and charming.

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RMN is too heady lately, and not in the "treatise on the FF8 junction system in reference to stat balance" way that I like.