Yeah, that is true. Geralt is shirtless several times in the game - hell, it's the opening shot. I'm more talking about underwear though. Yen's FULLY naked on at least two separate occasions, where Geralt's wearing those gross granny panties of his. However, on the whole, the game does seem less progressive in the nudity/sex department than W2, for both genders.
And then the whole Ciri thing. Nudity =/= sexuality. Did anyone take those old woman boobs int he sauna as sexual? Or the bruxa in the Night to Remember trailer? She was naked, but certainly not to get jiggy with Geralt. I understand them wanting to portray Ciri as a daughter figure, but then that's knocked flat when you get the opportunity to proposition Skjall for some quality time in the stables. And Yen is a mother figure, but is still sexualised, so why not Ciri? She's an adult, and it even mentions Mistle (her love in the books for those who don't know) in the sauna if you walk in without a towel.
That's the reason I also have a problem with the sauna scene, since it's neither realistic (yea, it's fantasy but there is such a thing as internal realism) nor in line with the artistic consistency the other games in the series followed. So why was it done? To reach higher mass market appeal? Mot likely... it can't be due to technical reason.
This I agree with. Nudity is far too often taken as sexual even when it isn't. Part of that is in the US ads use nudity too often. Like a jewlery company in KY having a topless girl to advertise rings. She has her arm over her breasts but still.
Even that is starting to change... I've noticed in recent months that certain marking campaigns start to avoid female primary/secondary sexual characteristics and shift their focus to things like hands, feet and necks. There is definitely a neo-puritan leaning creeping into the media from western society, slowly but surely.
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