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I've never really paid attention to these types of games before, but now that they've been highlighted like this, I do find them more than a bit disturbing. The fact that a large majority of them are dress-up "games" where the model is a cartoony, sanitized version of your standard issue male-gaze nonsense is particularly pernicious. I don't know, it definitely needs thought and discussion. Hell, I'm a grown man, and I will spend literally hours turning virtually any game that will let me into a dressup simulator so I don't have a problem with that aspect per se. I guess the real difference (if we set aside the pink-n-sparkly problem for a moment) is that there's a reason for it, namely that I want my character to look good doing cool stuff. I guess there's a big difference in message between "you can get a makeover before you save the world if you want" and "all you need to do is look good."
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