Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20181011073639/@comment-422853-20190218073539

Jayspyder wrote: RichFromStaten wrote: I really like Jade's costume in this game, and I'm not a puritan nor a Social Justice Warrior, but I appreciate the more practical, realistic approach the MK devs have taken to depicting their female characters since MKX. Jade's appearance looks more in line with her status as a regal assassin, and less like an accosted pole dancer ready to impale some guy's Adam's apple with her stripper heel because he touched her bum. While I don't fully agree I respect that you're being more reasonable about it than most others I've seen. I just find it silly that ultra-violence and gore is acceptable, but some cleavage or exposed skin sends everyone fainting on their couch and clutching their pearls. That's my problem with the neo-puritan stance NRS seems to have taken with the female fighters. Even if it is sometimes silly and impractical I don't see how the female fighers having idealized bodies and revealing outfits would really hurt the game's sales and rep. Especially when SCIV is about to release a batch of DLC outfits that were literally designed by an actual hentai artist. And that game's been doing fairly well. It's just puzzling to me. The culture, politics, or stances (for lack of better words) in the West is pretty different from the East (especially now), so blame MK being a Western made franchise unlike SC or DoA whose teams over in Japan still embrace their female sexualization.

The female form's toned down exposure doesn't really bother me with MK either way though, but I get where people on both sides are coming from. I admittedly like that kind of eye candy here and there, but it was never an essential part of the MK experience for me or anything.