Yeah you can’t say Euphoria is good while also saying sexy female protag bad (idk if that’s the specific “hit” you were referring to).

Like fuck this conceot of delineating media based on sexual preference. It either has sexual content or it doesn’t. As long as the content is above board, it’s all just smut catering to different tastes and anyone who sees one as more appropriate than another is an asinine fool whose ability to vote and lack of critical thinking skills worry me.

As for the actual topic at hand, censoring of a sexual aesthetic rather than smut, I’m actually quite pleased to see that there is such little difference in the attire but very disappointed with how far they went to censor something so fucking mild. It hasn’t hampered the game, but it impeded the aesthetic resulting in a bruised product where the designers’ creative vision has been adulterated. Imagine if they went back and changed the Bayonetta attire for the original game like this, how different would the character look and how would that shift the tone for that character and the atmosphere around them? Their sexuality and attire are directly representative of the character being portrayed. If the argument is that there is no meaningful backstory that ties to the character’s appearance or sexuality, well that’s a matter of either piss poor writing or intentional story “neglect” to hopefully set up for some sort of reveal, otherwise you’re basically playing an erotic Flash game you found on some porn site that’s probably sharecropping your family’s shared PC out to various wannabe hackers.

Anyway, nobody can pretend they did a good job censoring the artwork of a foreign studio to cover some cleavage and hips when wannabe actors are being praised for their work on glorified cable smut-- idgaf that HBO was behind it, they’re behind Max too and I fucking hate that garbage.

And I’m convinced this is censorship. There was all this talk of censorship right up until the game’s release, and now all of a sudden a change is made to the design last minute that obviously does not fit with the aesthetic. If this was “the version they’d wanted to show”, I believe they would have at least left some sign or cleavage easily visible to keep the nuance in gameplay visuals. Instead, we have blatantly obvious censorship with half-assed lies to dispell any notion that there is more fresh drama to be mad about.