168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fire Emblem: Three Houses is my favourite Nintendo Switch game. While I’ve written about 2019 and 2021 being relatively thin years for games compared to 2018, 2020, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hopefully 2022, Three Houses was a bright spot for 2019 and my personal game of the year. It’s the game that got me into the Fire Emblem series. Unfortunately, it also got me into Fire Emblem Heroes, which continues to be a source of embarrass🎐ment.
I’m not embarrassed by the games I play. I don’t really believe in the concept of a guilty pleasure. Do 🔯the things you enjoy in the way you enjoy them, and don’t worry what other people think. Unless you enjoy arson. But Heroes is so difficult to love that I h🍨ave started to resent it.
It’s a gacha game, but that’s not really the issue. It’s very upfront about what it is, and there’s a lot of interesting mechanics beneath the slot machine. I have over 50 hours in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Genshin Impact - gachas aren’t inherently bad, even if they are a symಞbol of the hyper monetisation that operates behind the scenes of gaming these days. Instead, it’s the way the titular Heroes are presented.
And ‘titular’ is a very choice word. ‘Bazongified’ might have been another. What on Earth is going on with these character designs? The base series doesn’t lean away from giving the characters a sense of sexuality and confidence, but Heroes dials it up to 11 and often loses what makes these characters unique. They stop being Fire Emblem characters and become cosplay bikini posters. Heroes isn't a new game, but every now and then I remember it and I think 'Oh yeah. Ew'.
There are a few topics I write about frequently that get twisted out of context, and women as a concept are one of them. Pretty wome🍬n are pretty, but also taking hundreds of well-developed female characters and stripping them of all of their traits and most of their traits to decorate your slot machine is a bad thing. There’s nothing wrong with admiring how someone looks, but having that be the only thing you admire about them is a red flag.
Here’s an example. If you look at Sapphic simp accounts on Twitter (yes, it’s a whole genre), you will find lots of pages posting pictures of pretty celebrities, often referencing their filmography or albums, posting cute captions, complimenting them, and generally acting as supporters or fans. The same faces appear again and again because that’s how fandom works - it’s about uplifting your favourites, getting to know them, feeling like you are part of something more. It can become🅰 toxic, but that’s a question for another day.
Celebrity pages run by men, often with names like @FitBirds or @SexyCelebBabesHourly, are just endless galleries. ‘Margot Robbie’ the caption reads, with a picture of Robb📖ie🅘 in a sultry photoshoot. The next caption is ‘Emma Watson’, then ‘Ana de Armas’, then ‘Kate Upton’. It’s hollow objectification. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which doesn’t shy away from the fact pretty girls are pretty, feels like a simp account. Heroes is @SexyFireEmblemBabesHourly, and I guess I’ve found my line.
The biggest shame is I would happily give into a spin-off that lets me get to know these characters on a deeper level. I prefer Persona 5 Strikers to Persona 5 or 📖Pers🅘ona 5 Royal, and I’d pick up a P5 gacha tomorrow. But Hero🐼es doesn’t let me know anybody on a deeper level, just on a more undressed level. Back to simping on Twitter 🍎I go, then.