I seriously hate this mindset that is so common that it's just men who like characters like her ( usually also it's coming from men trying to shame other men for it ).
I've played games for like 25+ years now and it has never been my impression at all.
And ppl aren't monoliths lol.
It's the same in MMO's too there's so many stereotypes about this that have never lined up with my own experience playing them.
If anything I feel like men are more commonly prudish and hate women like that than women do.
At least in my experience.
I really like that Mai is allowed to have a love interest as opposed to all the women in Street Fighter who have to be eternal bachelorettes while the guys get to have wives and families.
Reminder that Bayonetta was designed by a woman.
Ivy in Soul Calibur has been designed by a woman before too in one of the games.
I think most of the time devs and artist just make what they want not to necessarily appeal to a specific '' target audience ''.
And a lot of women like sexy women too.
Obviously in those two specific examples they were designing them according to someone else's request.
But they were hired to design them for a reason.
And both characters have quite sizable fanbases of women too.
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I've played games for like 25+ years now and it has never been my impression at all.
And ppl aren't monoliths lol.
If anything I feel like men are more commonly prudish and hate women like that than women do.
At least in my experience.
Ivy in Soul Calibur has been designed by a woman before too in one of the games.
I think most of the time devs and artist just make what they want not to necessarily appeal to a specific '' target audience ''.
And a lot of women like sexy women too.
But they were hired to design them for a reason.
And both characters have quite sizable fanbases of women too.