Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Needs To Avoid Being Weirdly Horny Anime Nonsense
I swear there was a moment in the past decade where Nintendo surrendered itself to being horny. Its family friendly image was thrown asunder in favour of embracing weirder, more eccentric titles that weren’t afraid to explore sexuality or indulge in the ancient evil of anime fanservice to appease a certain demographic. It still trades in beloved platformers and masterful adventure games, but alongside them you’ll find JRPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles that lean into the very best and worst of what it means to be a horny gamer.
Lecherous basement dwellers will still cry censorship at the removal of vagina bones or panty shots in games like Tokyo Mirage Sessions, but compared to a couple of decades ago the sexualisation found across certain Nintendo titles is more prevalent than it’s ever been. You only need to look at Xenoblade Chronicles 2 to see that, a JRPG that abandons the original game’s fairly tame fantasy aesthetic in favour of giant anime tiddies, thicc thighs, and hips that almost certainly do not lie. That game is horny as hell, which has me worried that its upcoming sequel will fall victim to the same cringe-inducing approach to things.
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Fire Emblem Awakening was the start of all this. It brought the niche TRPG into the mainstream and placed a greater focus on building relationships with cute anime girls and boys. Birthright and Conquest even had you producing heirs to carry on your bloodline which inevitably involved flirting and doing the nasty to move things along. A minigame that had you tapping the faces of characters on the Nintendo 3DS touchscreen to make them blush and offer compliments was famously cut from the Western release, which makes
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