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Soulcalibur vi 4chan12/21/2023 Gaming has grown up a lot in the past few years, and we're now tackling some pretty mature topics in the titles that we play. The conversation ended as abruptly as it began, but it got me thinking - should we really promote and encourage this kind of content in our games? And should sites like Nintendo Life be speaking out against it? This didn't pacify the affronted person, who pointed out that as a father and husband myself, I should feel just as uncomfortable as she did with this kind of subject matter, and that Nintendo Life should be making a stand against this kind of thing. I countered by pointing out that we'd already covered the game several times and always taken a tongue-in-cheek approach, poking fun at the over-the-top sexualization of the characters, and also mentioned that a campaign against the game had already been instigated by Official Nintendo Magazine - which attracted a large degree of criticism from its readers. Surely, there's no better place to store your Senran Kagura card! /Otr4FcRtsW- PQube March 7, 2014 Thanks to Staz for sharing this over Facebook. I should probably also point out that the woman in question isn't an outsider who views gaming with bemused disgust - she's a seasoned player herself. At the time it was absent-mindedly re-tweeted, it seemed like harmless fun that was largely in keeping with our coverage of the game up to that point, but the person I was speaking to - a woman, for what it's worth - strongly believed that when viewed out of context (as much on Twitter is), it came across as crass and sexist. The whole exchange was triggered by the fact that we'd re-tweeted an image via the Nintendo Life twitter account which came directly from PQube (the company handling the distribution of the game in Europe) showing a plastic figurine of one of the characters from the game with a 3DS game cartridge wedged between her impossibly large (and mostly exposed) breasts. To be honest, I personally found the advertising amusing - especially the UK YouTube spots which likened the title to the kind of dirty magazines teenage boys would secrete under their beds in fear of their mothers finding them (before the internet came along, anyway) - but a recent conversation in the Nintendo Life office forced me to sharply rethink my previously ambivalent stance. Long-time readers of Nintendo Life will be aware that we've given a fair amount of coverage to Senran Kagura Burst, a 3DS fighting game which recently launched in Europe amid a campaign which focused almost entirely on the title's bevy of busty female combatants.
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