Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Killer is Dead and misogyny; how do critics miss the point by this much?

Goichi Suda has done it again. He's created a game (Killer is Dead) and released it to a mass outcry of misogyny from the critical community. It's happened in his games before (see Lollipop Chainsaw) and once again the people making the complaints are, in taking a very simplistic approach to their analysis, missing the point of the game.

This time around it's the "gigolo" missions that take place in Killer is Dead that are drawing the ire of the critics. Here's a direct quote from a review, but note that what's quoted below is a common analysis of the game:

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