FFXIV. Somehow managed to convince my entire immediate friend group to start playing. It’s been a blast.

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We appreciate all that you do! I'm looking forward to the day when the image upload size gets increased so we can start posting higher quality images.

Thanks for the heads up.

Exactly. It’s a fun romp but I don’t go out of my way to recommend it.

My first playthrough of it was around when it came out and I didn’t really notice any issues and believed the controversy was blown out of proportion. In a recent playthrough, it became clear this game did not have well-written female characters in mind and it is hard to ignore that the execution of these topics was not in good taste.

I absolutely agree with you. The fetishization in this game was just particularly ick so wanted to point it out.

"and there was that one encounter with an islander that everyone immediately assumed was a rape-scene."

This isn't an assumption. Here is a video of the scene broken down to every possible consequence.

"When people play Lara, they don't really project themselves into the character. They're more like 'I want to protect her.' There's this sort of dynamic of 'I'm going to this adventure with her and trying to protect her.' She's definitely the hero but— you're kind of like her helper. When you see her have to face these challenges, you start to root for her in a way that you might not root for a male character. The ability to see her as a human is even more enticing to me than the more sexualized version of yesteryear. She literally goes from zero to hero... we're sort of building her up and just when she gets confident, we break her down again.

In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft will suffer. Her best friend will be kidnapped. She'll get taken prisoner by island scavengers. And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her.

"She is literally turned into a cornered animal. It's a huge step in her evolution: she's forced to either fight back or die."

• Ron Rosenburg, Executive Producer (Source)

I mostly enjoyed the 2013 Tomb Raider series but the first game's heavy use of questionable camera angles, gore porn, and threat of sexual violence is unignorable. The sheer amount of rape SFMs on PornHub is ample evidence the scene was not mistranslated.

She's from the Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons series. Her first appearance was in Harvest Moon: a Wonderful Life. She apparently gets renamed to Molly in the remake.

Fantastic screenshot.

Huh. Weird. Maybe it was because I was on mobile.

Link is broken but I found an updated one.

Looking forward to their new Judas game.

Now I can make my daily art post! You the real MVP.

Thank you! I will check them out. I'd love to support my fellow art junkies.

This looks like a fun chill experience. I’m not big on mobile gaming or their micro transactions but I don’t plan on spending any money on this. Just want to enjoy the artwork and collecting aspect.

Sakaguchi asking Uematsu to go back to the drawing board for FFI’s soundtrack, and Uematsu not changing anything but reordering the tracks is hilarious. He knew his worth.

I’ll be lucky if I get to play anything this week but will be focusing on Star Ocean First Departure R until Final Fantasy VII Rebirth gets delivered.

Nintendo Switch consoles have nearly 3x more sales than PlayStation 5 does while making a profit on hardware AND software, whereas both PS5 and Series X|S consoles sell at a loss and make up their profits via software.