This point in particular glosses over something fairly major:
"By look at her breasts and crotch, she will, of course, like you more."
Worded incorrectly. It's true that you're basically ogling your date while she isn't looking, but if she catches you, she'll be hella pissed off.
This isn't worded incorrectly at all: It's a direct case of cause and effect. Aside from presenting the woman with gifts - which you can only do at certain intervals - the *entire* mini-game revolves around staring at her crotch and breasts while the game occasionally pumps out up-beat music overlaid with female orgasm sounds. As it's the only thing that you actually in this mini-game, I don't think my tongue-in-cheek correlation is unfair.
that's not a correlation, though...it's a direct misrepresentation about a minigame you've attempted a detailed analysis of. if she doesn't "like you more" for oggling, but rather less, that sort've context is important to bear in mind before, say, putting together a skit about it.
People keep comparing it to James Bond, but fuck that - at least he's a pretty smooth talker.
we're still talking about an entertainment piece where a killer is known for philandering with any woman he chooses. are elements of sexploitation suddenly not okay for you when Golgo 13 likewise doesn't speak?
The money thing is a cause of confusion, but frankly I'm not the one to blame: Three or four people in the office saw the mini-game, and everyone thought that one of the items you could give the girl was cash. As a translator for the game you may have had documentation that explained otherwise, but from the perspective of a player this wasn't made clear, as we were pretty certain about it. If we were wrong I'd put that down to a lack of clarity on the development side.
here, you've acknowledged a wrongful assumption, but because 4 others followed it, you're putting that on Suda as well. This isn't helping your narrative.
The point I wanted to make with this video is simple: Suda 51 has been respected as an auteur for many years, but the nature of his recent work no longer earns him that kind of status. You might argue that this stuff is knowingly subversive, but that doesn't escape the reality of the situation: His games primarily pander to an audience of fap-happy teens. The fact that X-ray glasses are pre-order DLC makes this situation abundantly clear.
Were you entirely absent for No More Heroes 1-2? Shadows of the Damned? Lollipop Chainsaw? because you're, again, pointing at a minigame to justify the claim that a dev now panders only to "fap-happy teens", despite years of distinct themes & tropes (luchadores, religion, the smiths etc) as well as some questionable design choices. Pardon the dichotomy here, but the case you're making seems to either illustrate a lack of following Suda's prior titles or a strong desire to harp on an angle you found (and again, clearly didn't fully understand) from his most recent one.
There's a term for that in the world of art: Selling out. I think there's a place for games like this, in the same way that I wouldn't want pornography outlawed - I just think that people who treat games like this as 'art' rather than being a guilty pleasure have traveled about sixteen feet up their own arse.
Again, it's rather hard to take you seriously here - these later paragraphs show a desire for an honest conversation, but you just got done talking about "calling out" a niche developer for doing something not unlike many of his prior works, deeming him a "sell out" then unironically speaking on people up their own ass.
Lastly, let's talk about agendas. My agenda is simple: Let's make games better. Mostly that involves pointing the finger at giant publishers being fuckwits, but sometimes the issues are more complex than that. This video features me expressing fairly mild opinions in a fashion that I assumed would be universally reasonable - the real agendas at play here come from an entirely different angle. There's a strange beast that storms into town whenever anything related to gender gets mentioned, and the horrifically unpleasant nature of this cyclone makes reasoned conversation impossible.
'Trendy feminism' isn't the problem here - it's the deeply vicious and aggressive response that any notion of equality is met with: A weird fear that somehow games are being forced to change to meet the needs of a wacko liberal minority. Looking at how beautifully niche the PC games I'm playing right now are, I'm not sure where the seeds of this fear come from, but I'm fascinated by it to say the least.
this here is a clear false dichotomy, as you're painting many of those disagreeing with you of clearly being on team misogyny. there are those of us who likewise identify with feminism, but do not act surprised when niche devs known for certain tropes illustrate them in their next title - i likewise do not watch Rambo flicks and expect a balanced view on 3rd world politics. Picking & choosing one's battles is important, and even when planting one's flag on something like this happens, i don't think "KILLER IS DEAD - AND SO IS SUDA'S CAREER" is a reasoned way to go about this.
Calling someone a faggot and telling them you hope they die in YouTube comment, to be blunt, doesn't.
no pity for those who read youtube comments - if i put my hand in a shark tank, i certainly have the right to feel pain, regret and a host of other emotions. surprise, upon being bitten, is not one of those.
Apologies for the tl;dr, but I'll leave you with a final point: I didn't create this video with an agenda, but I've definitely got one now. I won't back down, and I won't admit that my opinions are "wrong", as so many halfwits have hilariously demanded. My video content will not become a crusade, and I will continue to make the same stuff as always - but I won't hold back because of this when it comes to dealing with games in the future. Those who claim I am a censor of art aim to bludgeon me into silence with slurs, but that is something they can never achieve - in the same way that pissy blacklisting publishers will never make me keep my mouth shut either. Videogames journalism has lost its way, and brutal honesty is the only way forward - no matter what the cost.
If what you've just read makes me your enemy, I'm fucking proud to wear that badge.
there's no need for martyrdom in the final act. and yes, it's clear you got an agenda after tossing up your factually incorrect video, because that way neither your opinions or said facts can somehow be wrong, as the goalposts have been moved. it's not about an optional minigame you found distasteful; it's about gamers who enjoy Suda's offerings taking part in a culture that doesn't want females enjoying these games, a claim I find a bit offensive but honestly? If I'm going to really indulge any of the multitude of gendered topics in gaming right now, this isn't one of them.
Which is to say: at the root of it, I agree with you on the problems of gender & gaming, it's something that's a hot topic now because it's a discussion long overdue. However, over-emphasizing bits like this - particularly while ignoring context - is something I believe is done at the
expense of the topic at hand, hence the logical assumptions regarding your questionable intent. if you find that displeasurable, though I would personally say to highlight a better example, at the least, strengthen your argument & do so professionally, there's no reason to use insults or make it about you in your closing bits.
I preordered Killer is Dead then started actively avoiding all news about it because well... It's Suda51, it looked cool and I wanted it. You're video broke my impenetrable information blackout shield and I have since cancelled my preorder. Fuck, I was really looking forward to this as well.
Watching yet another example of scared little children yelling at someone because "feminismer am attack videogames" is depressing, next weeks tropes vs women reaction will probably is going to be even worse.
to be clear: you canceled your preorder because this guy wrote a piece on an optional minigame he had to be corrected on regarding several of its points...what did you make of Lollipop Chainsaw?