It’s like the Steam Hall of Fame except there are quite a few games on there I’ve never heard of.

There’s Gris art on the Steam login page? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. Probably cause I’m always logged in.

It’s from the first chapter of Appleseed by Shirley Masamune.

EDIT: SHIROW Masamune. Damn autocorrect.

Comments you can hear.

Exactly. It’s a fun romp but I don’t go out of my way to recommend it.

My first playthrough of it was around when it came out and I didn’t really notice any issues and believed the controversy was blown out of proportion. In a recent playthrough, it became clear this game did not have well-written female characters in mind and it is hard to ignore that the execution of these topics was not in good taste.

I absolutely agree with you. The fetishization in this game was just particularly ick so wanted to point it out.

“and there was that one encounter with an islander that everyone immediately assumed was a rape-scene.”

This isn’t an assumption. Here is a video of the scene broken down to every possible consequence.

"When people play Lara, they don’t really project themselves into the character. They’re more like ‘I want to protect her.’ There’s this sort of dynamic of ‘I’m going to this adventure with her and trying to protect her.’ She’s definitely the hero but— you’re kind of like her helper. When you see her have to face these challenges, you start to root for her in a way that you might not root for a male character. The ability to see her as a human is even more enticing to me than the more sexualized version of yesteryear. She literally goes from zero to hero… we’re sort of building her up and just when she gets confident, we break her down again.

In the new Tomb Raider, Lara Croft will suffer. Her best friend will be kidnapped. She’ll get taken prisoner by island scavengers. And then, Rosenberg says, those scavengers will try to rape her.

“She is literally turned into a cornered animal. It’s a huge step in her evolution: she’s forced to either fight back or die.”

• Ron Rosenburg, Executive Producer (Source)

I mostly enjoyed the 2013 Tomb Raider series but the first game’s heavy use of questionable camera angles, gore porn, and threat of sexual violence is unignorable. The sheer amount of rape SFMs on PornHub is ample evidence the scene was not mistranslated.

She’s from the Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons series. Her first appearance was in Harvest Moon: a Wonderful Life. She apparently gets renamed to Molly in the remake.

Fantastic screenshot.

Huh. Weird. Maybe it was because I was on mobile.

Link is broken but I found an updated one.

Looking forward to their new Judas game.