Ace Attorney's Hot Clown Girl Controversy Is Finally Going To Get Me To Play It
I've been meaning to play Ace Attorney for a while now. There are a few popular games that swirl in and out of the news cycle that I have tried and failed to get into, but I don't like having many major blind spots in my back catalogue. It's inevitable, with so many games demanding so much time, but whenever I get a break in the endless wave of new releases, I try to dabble in something I've always had my eye on. Ace Attorney has always drifted around the middle of my list, never really in any danger of rising to the top until I clear out some big guns first. Right now though, there's controversy in the Ace Attorney fandom because of a video clip of a hot clown girl. Ladles and jellyspoons, Ace Attorney is now at the top of my list.
If Hot Clown Girl has a million fans, I'm one of them. If Hot Clown Girl has five fans, I'm one of them. If Hot Clown Girl has one fan, that one is me. If Hot Clown Girl has no fans, I am no longer alive. If the world is against Hot Clown Girl, I am against the world.
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The controversy, as far as I can tell, comes from a short video of some sexualised fanart that has people losing their minds. With the most charitable interpretation in the world, I get it. Female characters are routinely sexualised over and over again, often in debasing and humiliating ways, as male fans strip them of their agency and their clothes and turn them into objects. The recent Tifa statue, which sees her bent over, legs splayed, is but one gross example of this. Hot Clown Girl, however, is not. The clip in question is playful and comedic, poking fun at Miles as much as Geiru Toneido, which is what clown girl's name is. It seems to go against
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