>>39378064In retrospect I actually really liked the linear, streamlined style of the original XIII (already ten years old in Japan this December). It was like playing Half-Life 2: The JRPG. I also think there's something sickly about the way Lightning Farron (a porn star name if ever there was one) is sexualized in the game. She's stripped naked in her first scene, while players have the opportunity to ogle her naked body in the steamy heat (I ogled until the game shut the water off and forced me to get on with the plot). After enabling this prurient gaze, she's then made victim of a tag-team rape attempt. In her subsequent scene, she goes to a hotel and is ogled again by a lecherous clerk in need of a shave and a laundromat. Later, she's forced to strip in front of a gangster where he, and I, ogle her for a second time. Her character model is thoroughly idealized. Her walk animation is a lusty stripper trawl that makes her rounded butt seem like its own autonomous being.
