Bayonetta may be sexy, but she is absolutely not vulgar, and we stressed making her beautiful above all else in the design. what we created was born of advocating a design that didn’t pander to the desires of men, but instead was both high-class and fashionable. So, Bayonetta was designed by a woman to appeal to women and is “high-class and fashionable,” but she loses her clothing as she fights? And what logic dictates that a witch can form body-covering clothing out of her own hair but somehow can’t keep herself covered when she uses her hair for other things? If we’re leaping into the territory of mutable hair clothing here, can’t she at least keep it on? Barf. Then what would happen!? Needless to say, the guys on the team were incredibly happy with the idea. I realized that if she was using her hair to summon these demon attacks then her hair had to disappear off her body when she did this. There shouldn’t be anyone, male or female, that dislikes beautiful things.Īs long as those beautiful things are women with Victoria’s Secret model proportions and skintight “clothing.” His this-character-isn’t-designed-to-pander-to-men argument loses even more ground in his response to the next question (about Bayonetta’s clothing), in which he states:
Kamiya goes on to prop up his idea that we should all be A-OK with the male gaze, adding: To imply that Bayonetta’s appearance cannot possibly be degrading to women because she was designed by an individual woman in a male-privileged culture is ignorant, reductive, and lazy. We all live in a world dominated by the male gaze, where women are socialized to view ourselves in a strangely externalized way-as objects to be looked upon and judged aesthetically. It’s not only men who see the world through a male-privileged lens. In this broad sense, the gaze is male whenever it directs itself at, and takes pleasure in, women, where women function as erotic objects. “ to say that the gaze is male refers to a way of seeing which takes women as its object. I’ll let bioethics and aesthetics specialist Mary Devereaux explain the male gaze to you: Are you really going to hit me with the “but I have black/gay/ friends” defense? That one never holds up, but I’ll address it nonetheless. When asked if he had any concerns about alienating potential female buyers with Bayonetta’s “overt sexuality,” Kamiya responded:īayonetta the character was designed by a female designer.
However, assuming a game will appeal to female players just because it features a woman is akin to McCain’s mistake of assuming female voters would flock to his ticket based on its inclusion of Bayonetta’s doppelgänger.
#Male bayonetta series
Outside of the Metroid series and roleplaying games that allow me to choose the main character’s sex, I’m having trouble instantly thinking of titles that feature a female lead. The article opens with the line, “In a medium dominated by Y chromosomes, it’s easy for a strong female lead like Bayonetta to stand out.” This is true. According to many fans, another issue is that Cereza's status as a strong female character becomes impaired by her being with Luka, especially since it seems that he saved her when her powers went haywire.Image courtesy the first row of Google image search "Bayonetta." Her getting together with him at the end feels rushed and incredibly random, though such developments aren't exactly uncommon in the Bayonetta series. Likewise, her relationship with Luka was, as mentioned, antagonistic heretofore. Supposedly backing this up is her close relationship with fellow Umbral witch Jeanne. Some fans have accused this ending of queerbaiting, with many seeing Cereza as a lesbian beforehand. The issue with this ending was brought up in Maddy Myers' review for the game on Polygon. Even with their negative history, the two kiss as they're taken into the demonic Inferno. In the previous games, Luka had a begrudging "alliance" with Cereza, despite his blaming her for his father's death. Losing control of her powers, Cereza's very soul is snatched from her body, but the chaos that ensues from this is stopped only when Luka embraces her. The finale of Bayonetta 3 involves different versions of Cereza from throughout the franchise's multiverse, revealing that the first and second games were actually in different timelines.
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