AUGH!!! NO! JUST NO! DO NOT WANT.

AUGH!!! NO! JUST NO! DO NOT WANT.

Vince submitted:

Lightning from the Final Fantasy series has always been a female character I liked in video games. Good news is she is returning in a third game featuring her. That is awesome! It looks like you play dress up with her for combat, that could be cool, I guess - kinda weird, but I’ll go with it. Also weird is that the game director and character modeling designer wanted to ‘enhance’ her appeal. AND YES! THEY WILL JIGGLE! 

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/27/more-information-on-lightnings-boob-job-in-lightning-returns-ffxiii-emerge-yes-theyll-jiggle/

Q: Is it true you said you wanted Lightning-san’s size from a C cup to a D cup?

Nobuhiro Goto (Character Modeling Designer): Toriyama-san said “I want it bigger” so…

Motomu Toriyama (Director): [What a] cop-out! (laughs)

Goto: Yes, it was enlarged.

Q: Was it a C cup until now? Does it even jiggle this time?

Goto: Yes!

Toriyama: It’s determined by clothing, like the so-called corrective underwear. (laughs)

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Dengeki Online‘s report of the Q&A provides further details:

Q: I heard that the chest Jiggles?

Goto: Yes, her chest jiggles. Since everyone can decide what costume she’ll wear, you can make sure it does (laughs). By the way, since Lightning swings her arm when you change her weapon in the menu screen, that’s a recommended action for sure-fire jiggling! To see it even better it could be useful to equip a small shield. Look forward to it!

Geez…

I’m super upset by this.

Nice to know where their priorities are for re-designing her, and that they’re really excited about how you can dress her in specific clothing to watch her boobs jiggle when she fights.

Re: your excellent flowchart about the mindnumbing, repetitive comments about Tropes vs. Women: all the cookies and confetti for you!

It's kind of impressive how much critics of TvW read from the same script.

(Yay cookies!)

One of my favorite quotes from Weird Al's cult classic UHF is "guns don't kill people. I DO."

Ah! Didn't realise you had a tumblr! It's your fault (via GoMakeMeASandwich) that I really started to understand the problems games have with representation etc :)

Yeah, I suppose I should link the two. This is more meant to be an art/game design blog. But it's kind of inevitable that feminism is going to spill over here.

I'm really glad that GMMaS made a difference for you.

brendanadkins answered your question: Performing ridiculous masculinity?

Roll again and describe a flashback explaining your manpain!

Funny you should mention that. Instead of Spout Lore, female adventurers get the basic move Don't Worry Your Pretty Head. On a hit, a man tells you what you need to know.

I'm finally finished with all but one of my freelance projects! Hurrah! Which means its time to turn my attention back to other projects - my own! I'm currently putting some polish on my crazy Dungeon World hack - SexyTime Adventures, ("SexyTime Adventures: the RPG - a game where the men are men and the women are sexy") since the hope is to maybe playtest it at GenCon.

I'd honestly forgotten how funny some of what I'd written was. For instance, the Cleric description, which is intended to go with the above sketch:

Others may be ambivalent in their faith, worshipping whichever god in the pantheon most serves their needs in the moment. Some have no faith at all, citing the existence of monsters, demons, and war as proof that there are no gods. But you, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a god, and that god has touched you deep in your soul. Your bosomy, voluptuous soul.

You have been called to bring faith to a faithless world, to smash down the unrighteous and stand triumphantly over them without any pants on. For pants are the work of the devil. So sayeth the lord.

So expect some updates in the next little while as I amuse myself by working on this.