Brian Mao (perseus@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:46:13 -0700
X-Sender: perseus@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19990901164613.00761274@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:46:13 -0700 From: Brian Mao <perseus@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: Petition For Sakura 3Also remember we live in a country where Pro Wrestling games are some of the hottest titles on console, as well as popular on the TV. Good taste is not big in this country. -Brian >The reason, IMO, is the sex appeal. People seems to dig those 3 sizes that Lara >have (I'm not one of them BTW), I think fans of Lara most of the time has got eyes >fixed on to her breast and bust than any other place. >ST characters on the other hand don't have this "sell point" (argh, I don't even >want to use this word). >And when people can bash Sailormoon characters for having big eyes and small month >and wierd hair colour (while not seeing the same physical flaws in their own design >works *sign*), the ST characters might get labelled as "those wierd japanimation >girls" and be dismissed, worst comes to worst, since ST has got Japanese animation >style printed all over it, people might even think it's violent or sexually >explicit, (hey wait a sec, I think I just flushed my argument down the drain, isn't >that what sold the other video games?!). >Well, anyway, maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic (or optimistic? since we don't >even know if ST is coming out in english at all), but that's my take. > >Later >Chou >