…Senua’s story is not pretty. Senua’s journey through what she perceives as a land of evil, magic and ruin is not pretty. She is not an airbrushed model. She is meant to be a picture of a person. Someone battling what she believes to be true, horrifying monsters while striving in grief to achieve something to ease her pain. Screaming to deities to aid her.
Calling her that is disgusting. Retouching her face to look ‘correct’ is both missing the point and spitting on art.
It’s also spitting on women as a whole for being considered a human instead of an object or mere concept that is only supposed to exist for an incel’s peen feels.
Having played Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice, in the beginning I admit I looked at her and didn’t see “modern day beauty standard” but then one has to consider that it is a game set during a viking era. Then I realised I need to then consider that I cannot apply “modern standards”.
I mean she wasn’t ugly in my eyes, just I guess appeared somewhat plain which is not a slight against the actress but more as an aquired appreciation to how they designed her but when you really look at the details it is perfectly acceptable to see what they did get right. It is a person that has gone through a lot and of course she is going to look not “clean” considering what baggage she is carrying and where she is coming from.
It is not some future world were mud and dirt don’t magically stick to your skin, it is a realistic portrayal of a person going through a lot of dirty places, being a bad ass and losing her collective mind with a story that explores someone with mental illness in a time when it was considered a “gift” from the gods if you were lucky.
Anyone else remember them noticing Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West had tiny hairs on her face? Apparently that meant she was trans. Sorry for not waxing in a robot dinosaur apocalypse, lads.
Not familiar with the game in question, but the photo on the left is not ugly. That’s angry. Common misconception.
Meanwhile the picture on the right looks like a college student fell onto some war paint and Instagram filters. That’s immersion breaking if this is supposed to be a crying/screaming/angry scene by a battle-hardened warrior, IMO.
The woman is fine. I think the left one is an actor or based on one. And if the one on the right was real, she’d probably also agree that the others in the image suck.
You win the fucking prize, I didn’t even think to call out the “fixed” version looking at the camera instead of… whatever she’s supposed to be looking at
If only gaming companies listened to the fans and made all the women characters look like Gerardo de Rivera we wouldn’t be having this conversation every time a new game is released 😔
I was gonna say; isnt it basically a game about shit that should be ugly?
Fuck, let’s go find+replace every not-completely-gorgeous dude in film with like four near identical impossibly good looking photo shopped models. Make the dean of A/C repair in ‘community’ just beautiful and jacked and expressionless because he just shot up ten gallons of botox.
Also, what’s a fun ethnicity… The chad meme is a Turkish dude right? Let’s just make all guys in film Turkish or, since we need two… Japanese? Brazilian? Doesn’t matter, just pick two and no more white dudes. “Including” white people would be woke dei bullshit, let’s not compromise our standards just to include people, and why shouldn’t kratos be hot?
So the mods are going to remove my comment that wasn’t nearly as critical as the post it was commenting on? Y’all can remove this too, right after you go fuck yourself.
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