Well put. I'll add that images like this not only distort the human form to appeal to teenage fantasies, they serve to encourage the exclusionary tendencies of gaming culture. So many people already feel like they don't belong in the gaming world if they're not a straight male aged 12-30. Designs like this - and the designs of many other characters in many other games - perpetuate that. This is just one small example of a very big problem.
You, like many others, have failed to grasp the idea behind exaggeration and how it's different from sexualization. The
impossibility of the Sorceress' designs means that it should not be viewed as some sort of ideal woman in Kamitani's mind. Many other more "realistic" women that have consistently prominent chests are actual examples of sexualization for the sake of sexualization. They represent a
possible body type that is difficult to achieve, and only exist for the sake of titillation, which is far more damaging than something like the Sorceress.
You'd have an arguement if Kamitani maintained the same aesthetic for all women in Dragon's Crown, like how all women in DoA are overflowing in the chest department.
He doesn't. There's a wide variety of body types, which makes it unreasonable to single one or two as though it was representative of the entire game.
Not to mention Vanillaware is a niche developer so in the grand scheme of things this wouldn't even be a blip on the radar.
Indeed! It's like all these guys arguing saying, "This is so offensive to women! It offends me! I'm embarrassed by it!"
And we're over here like, "Not really...it looks cool!"
I could go on by how much more offended by Samus' Zero Suit I am because it goes against her character, by that's unrelated nonsense and I'm not going to derail anything.
So in summary, if you are a Man, and large breasted characters offend and embarrass you, that's fine. However don't say that is offends everyone with a vagina.
showed the wifey, and since she has taken over vita duties in the house (going to have to get another soon lol) she wants it bad, she said it looked great to her...
You conveniently ignore these as well.
Fight back against what? Some mild criticism?
You're as cute as your avatar.
Unjust and narrowminded accusations of perpetuating sexism. If this was "mild", none of you would be here right now. Clearly it's escalated into something else entirely.