Stop Trying To Help The Butch Lesbians Gain Acceptance With Your Awful Video Game
Forced 'representation' via bad media hurts every 'marginalized community'
Aeta, a young knight errant, undertakes a “brutal journey through Italy” to rescue her true love, Bianca (see above): this is the plot of 1348 Ex Voto, a new video game that centers the ‘representation’ of lesbians right in its marketing.
Now, I am not a butch lesbian, but I am quite sure the butch lesbians I know are not about to fall in love with Bianca, just like the very-male video game audience being asked to buy the game has not fallen in love with the game at all.
The term ‘ex voto’ refers to holy offerings displayed in fulfilment of religious vows. Thus the most remarkable thing about the game is the provocative title paired to the premise. Even Kotaku, among the most ‘woke’ of gaming websites, calls the game itself “unremarkable”.
Reviews on Steam, the biggest English-language video game download and discussion platform, are decidedly mixed. A consensus finds it unfinished, unpolished, and incomplete as a work. B…
