We're not talking about the game, homie--Namco's free to calculate market factors and tweak their game design however they like. We're talking about whether or not the features you choose to fixate on are risible or not. For my part, I'm perfectly happy with the balance that the games strike--which should be clear, since I've continued to play them for nearly two and a half decades. Doesn't mean I have to hear you fixate on a character's thighs (and suggest its super important they get that aspect right) and then feel forbidden to point out how ridiculous that is. Yeah man, nothing's wrong with sexiness, but I personally don't find I get worked up over virtual t'n'a in video games. I also don't get hard-ons for cartoon characters, even if they look like Jessica Rabbit. I can't say for sure that I didn't have a different perspective when I was younger, but if I did, those feelings didn't survive the milestone of being able to interact with an actual woman's body. But that's just me. But I understand my hang-ups better now, thanks to you: if I've never jerked it to Bayonetta, I'm "sex-negative". Got it.
Also, and not for nothing, but Cassandra is like the weirdest possible target for that kind of attention. To the extent that Soulcalibur has always, like most of its fighting game contemporaries, included a degree of fan service in its style in order to cater to certain demographics (and we agree about that much at least, though some would say pander is the more accurate way to put it, and I'm somewhere between those two perspectives)--to the extent they do that, Cassandra is not exactly the poster child. Fetish-wear Ivy and smokey-eye Setsuka certainly do invite a certain reaction. But Cassie? Her thing has always been a brutal, hard-hitting aesthetic. In more than two decades of facing people maining Cassandra, including friends who didn't seem to realize there were other characters on the select screen in SCII-IV, I never once heard anyone discuss her thighs before the last six weeks, let alone have deeply-held convictions on the subject matter. But that's the internet for you.
Also, this is not relevant to any of the above, but what "blood and gore" are you talking about with regard to Soulcalibur, lol? I mean there's literally never been a single pixel of blood or gore in any Soulcalibur game, and literally never a game where it makes less sense or where the "violence" is more cartoonishly un-effective. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but putting a seven-foot-long/one-foot-wide sword through someone's head tends to be a bloody affair in the real world.
Well, if you'd actually said something funny, I probably would have liked it, not-withstanding our differences of opinion on the degree to which SC protagonists are reasonable subject of sexual fixation. But if there was a joke there, it was lame and thus un-find-able. Just like the original 'Thicksandra' pun that inspired the recent trend towards fetishiszing Cassandra for weeks on end in this thread. Here's lesson for all you wannabe commedians: A) try something besides puns, B) if you insist upon using a phonetic/portmanteau pun, be sure you understand how they actually work, because, uhhh, "thick" does not rhyme with "Cass", and there is therefore no joke there...you're just smashing parts of two unrelated words together... In other words, if you want to get the comedian's discount that transforms something dumb you said into light-hearted fair, such that people won't make fun of your perspective, you need to get a lot funnier than that.
Don't make me consider this delusional theory that I now want oh so badly to be true, I want my guy back.
