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Samus has rocket heels,someone do something!


On 05/22/2014 at 02:27 PM by BrokenH

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"Oh no,Samus is more sexy and now has heels! Let's have a good cry!"

While people are bitching about Samus’s new heels I cannot help but smirk. It’s just so preposterously stupid to get upset over. The heels themselves actually help her jump higher and give her more powerful kick attacks. In other words, they’re not just for show.

Certain “impassioned fans” have tried to argue the addition isn’t practical or realistic but when has Smash Bros. been “practical” or “realistic”?? It’s like accusing My Little Pony’s ponies of not looking enough like real ponies!

Others throw dumb ass comparisons at me. As in “Tony Stark doesn’t have to wear heels!”. Well good for Iron man! But you know who “does” wear heels? Raiden, one of the most bad-ass male characters from Metal-gear! Yet did “anyone” bitch about it then?

Raiden has heels,he knows how to use them!

Look, I’ve been to the bowels of the internet! You want to get upset over something?! Apparently there is a niche genre of games where women lose their clothes gradually and take health damage by getting sexually molested by monsters. This genre is called “ryona” yet not a single “infuriated feminist” or “white knight” has brought it up! Let’s just keep bitching about those heels, right?

What do I think about ryona? It’s kind of weird but it’s still not hurting anyone I guess. I stumbled across footage of a game called “Parasite In City” and was actually pleasantly surprised by how nice some of the sprites and backgrounds looked. The main character resembles Aya Brea and many of the monsters are either zombies or Alien inspired parasite creatures. Unfortunately, the game has all of one boss (I think) and the stages consist of pushing blocks, shooting foes with a rather weak hand gun, kicking when ammo is depleted, and watching the sexy protagonist get spanked, grappled, and banged with gusto when she fumbles the ball!

I could not help but to think this might have been a rather good side scrolling survival horror game if the designer added more weapons, more enemy types, and better laid out environments as opposed to putting painstaking detail into the various “monster rape animations”. But this was probably a Japanese game creator attempting to stay true to the ryona genre.

Regardless, it’s pixels on a screen. It may come off as somewhat disturbing to my American sensibilities but I always go by my “If no real people get hurt I’m fine with it!” rule. Just like there are completely normal and nice people that enjoy the goriest of horror movies there are probably nice and normal people that enjoy this stuff too! I’m not here to call down the wrath of tumblr onto the ryona genre, I’m simply stating that compared to Samus’s “new heels” it seems as if ryona degrades and sexualizes fictional non-existent female characters in a much more blatant fashion!

Why I’ve been gone

- Too much time on face book. I know, I’m sad and pathetic. lol.

-Usually I share my art with everyone on pixlbit but my last illustration was straight up erotica. Yes, I’ve decided to draw hentai again. (But probably not as much as I used to) Anyway, I know many of you have wives and kids so this was not appropriate material for a gaming web site.

-Just a lot going on. There have been inspections, visits from my social worker, and I put my game up on Indie DB. For those not in the know, this also requires creating a detailed summary page and putting up screenshots/concept art. By the way, all is cool. Inspections went okay and I actually like my social worker. (She’s attractive and seems to really care about the people she works on behalf of.)

-Had kind of a life or death experience when choking on some dry chicken. I was lucky my best friend was around to administer the heimlich maneuver. Seriously, without Alex I might not be talking to you all right now. (I know some of you might have wished I “did” choke to death on that thick breast meat. Sorry to disappoint you. Lulz!)

-Working on coloring yet another illustration and fortunately I “can” show this one off once it is completed!


 

Comments

Michael117

05/22/2014 at 03:17 PM

Glad you're not dead, Ben. The only thing more dangerous than dry chicken is dry turkey, which is almost always super dry. Dry foods in general are a real gamble to try and eat. Mechanically you either have to hope you have enough saliva to lubricate whatever the food is, or actually drink it with a mouthful of water but that doesn't sound very appetizing. As a kid I learned early that I didn't like eating peanut butter sandwhiches much because the bread and peanut butter dried my mouth out almost instantly on the first bite and it was a close call trying to swallow a mouthful of a sandwhich like those sometimes.

BrokenH

05/22/2014 at 03:21 PM

I totally agree,Michael. You have to play it safe with dry meat and at that moment I did not have a beverage handy. I should have known better but sometimes we take those little things for granted. (And even those little things are important)

KnightDriver

05/22/2014 at 03:57 PM

What is Platinum Games doing the next Metroid. . . Awesome!!!

BrokenH

05/22/2014 at 03:58 PM

That actually does have the potential to be awesome,Knight! lol. Platinum does good work.

KnightDriver

05/23/2014 at 01:57 AM

Later on I thought of Team Ninja working on Metroid Other M and thought maybe they'll do the next one too. Does that mean breast physics and volleyball?

BrokenH

05/24/2014 at 06:00 PM

Good question. I don't think volleyball was in Other M but breast physics might have been. However, this is Smash Bros and there's rumors a whole new guy or team is in charge of premoting and designing things for Samus now. (Other than Team ninja)

Truthfully I do not even understand why team ninja has a bad reputation. True, they created "the jiggle boob" but not all their games have been complete crap.

KnightDriver

05/25/2014 at 07:48 PM

I agree, I was thinking of all the excellent combat they did for Ninja Gaiden. This sexy volleyball thing was really just something they did on the side that got a lot of attention.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/22/2014 at 05:33 PM

I can't do anything -- my eyes are full of boob!!!

BrokenH

05/22/2014 at 05:44 PM

Booooooobs! What a way to go though! Tongue Out

jgusw

05/22/2014 at 07:11 PM

Heels?  Really?  I said this to you before, I don't know how you put up with the jackasses. Laughing

BrokenH

05/22/2014 at 07:29 PM

I dunno,James. I can understand fans being passionate about a character. But with this Samus still looks like Samus and the only difference is she has new foot wear. And for the people who are not fond of the zero suit there's also the alternate heavily armored Samus. Noone is being forced into only one option for this character. The backlash about something so tiny blows my mind. Undecided Did these same folks bitch when Samus's hair color went from being green,to brown,and finally to blonde?

Cary Woodham

05/22/2014 at 07:45 PM

You just wrote this blog so you could have an excuse to post a picture of Samus. :)

I never really gave thought to Samus wearing heels.  Zelda and Peach wear heels, too.

At least Samus doesn't have guns on her feet like Bayonetta has.  That's just silly! :)

Please be careful when eating chicken in the future.  I'd hate to see you gone.

I wish you would draw more pictures of Angi and Brandy.  :) 

Now go read my blog. :)  --Cary

BrokenH

05/22/2014 at 08:00 PM

Chew thorougly,eat slowly,and have a beverage close at hand! Seems like simple common sense right,Cary? lol. I do admit I like Samus a lot but the "functionable heels" addition to the zero suit really is an "issue" people are debating passionately about. I miss the old days where stuff like this did not even matter so much. 

Cary Woodham

05/23/2014 at 05:41 AM

I like Samus a lot, too. :)

Alex-C25

05/23/2014 at 12:47 PM

Glad you are okay Ben. Take care of yourself next time.

As for Samus, I admit that I found the heels weird and I didn't like them at first, but not because of "sexism", "objetification" or any other of those terms thrown around without base, but I felt that they didn't fit her. However, I got used to them and I like the rest of her design, so no problem to me and I still love Samus regardless of heels. Besides, they always cry that Zero Suit Samus and the heels "objetify" the character and it's the first time they put her sexy. Seems people forget this.

BrokenH

05/24/2014 at 06:07 PM

Ah, it's okay to not like the heels,Alejandro! It's more of the sheer unrelenting passion fans are willing to argue over it that blows my mind. I mean this is really "serious business" for a lot of people on the internet. (Face to palms)

Even if the heels didn't click for me personally the most I'd say is "Not fond of the heels but Samus is still looking good and hopefully she is still kicking ass!"  After that I'd move on but y'know,some folks NEVER move on. lol.

Alex-C25

05/24/2014 at 07:48 PM

"Not fond of the heels but Samus is still looking good and hopefully she is still kicking ass!"

This describes my feelings too :)

C.S.3590SquadLeader

05/28/2014 at 04:35 PM

People get agitated over the littlest things, don't they? Glad I choose to avoid them like the plague.

BrokenH

05/31/2014 at 09:41 PM

It's the way to a much more peaceful existence,mate. lol.

NSonic79

06/23/2014 at 01:49 PM

Didn't they make this same complaint when she had heels in Metroid: Other M? They do serve a perpose. I can see them being used to house tiny jet engines in them. Moreso if her secondary jump jets are in her suit themsleves.

why ryona hasn't found the ire of folks seems pretty simple: it's not mainstream. Nintendo, smash bros and metriod are mainstream. This game is not, atleast I haven't heard about it. I'm guessing it's some indie PC game yes? if so I can see why no one paid much attention to such. But mind you if it does find it's way into the spotlight it'll get ravaged like the rest of the game genre.

Luck of the draw that you find a soical worker that cares. Very hard to find them these days in that profession.

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