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Banner saga does look really interesting. I like the whole "Norse mythology ragnarok" vibe they're going for with the visual style.

I agree with that too. But in this case I think the scene in question was added to remind us Dracula is a monster more because he murders a family rather than any awkward subjective context of rape by feeding on a woman. According to other descriptions he feeds on the whole family,including the father. Maybe Kat missed that part though. Regardless we will not know how graphic this scene is until the game releases,Alejandro!

McRiiiiib! 

I concur,Adam. It doesn't really matter"how" she relates Lords Of Shadow 2 to a pornographic hentai game based around stalking and sexaul assault. The damage by putting those games in the same sentence is already done. People play the negative word association game when they want to vilify and slander their opposition. (And I feel bad for anyone gullible enough to buy into this. )

Totally,Nicole! That's why I think Spike says it best. "Humans are happy-meals with legs!" Only time you can accuse a vampire of being "touchy feely" is when they literally make someone else into a fellow vampire. It implies the "sire" liked something about his or her new progency beyond them being a mere food source.

Technically an evil vamp might make someone into another vamp just to torment that person but in comparison to that Dracula was being merciful.

He fed on and killed the whole family instead of the alternative of turning one of them into a vampire to kill his or her own child and his or her own beloved. If you follow the Buffy mythos Angelus was meaner than Dracula could ever be.

Exactly. We're questioning the morals of a character who is essentially an anti-hero at his best and a flat out antagonist at his worst. That and he absolutely needs to drink blood to survive!

Angela's whole back-story in Silent Hill 2 was more controversial and disturbing for me than Dracula feeding on a family. The game flat out told us "Angela's father raped her" and there was no vagueness left to interpret it any other way.  

To me Kat lowered herself to click bait. I might be wrong but that's what my gut is telling me right now.

Do you really think her comparison to Rape-Lay is in any way accurate? (Beyond Drac attacking a family from a possibly 1st person perspective) I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree. "Professional people" screw up too. Usually I respect Kat but I'm calling her on this.

The thing is such a game already exists. It's called Blood Rayne 2. It had violent bloody dismemberment and vampiric feeding and the way Rayne did it was very sensual.

Lastly, do you really think Lords Of Shadow 2 is somehow going to cross a line God Of War 3, GTA 5,The Last Of Us,Dante's Inferno,Saints Row 4,Metro,TombRaider 2013, and other very adult games have drawn in the sand? I kind of doubt it. Even with "photo realism" I doubt Dracula's feeding is going to look like a blood drenched violent porno.

I'm almost willing to bet money this "scene" is going to be much tamer than it is being made out to be. That's how it was with Lara Croft's supposed "rape scene". Having played Tombraider myself, I can tell you that moment had nothing to do with "sexual assault" and if you fail the QTE you get strangled to death. (Which to me is not any better than being "raped" but for some reason we hold "virtual murder" in a higher regard)

I know she had a private round table conference with Cox and some of the other Mercury Steam staff,Joe. As I understand it Cox said the scene was supposed to make us "uncomfortable" and that he wanted their depiction of Dracula to be akin to the "scary vampires" of the olden days before properties like Twilight defanged them.

 I wish we could see the footage ourselves but apprentely this is a sneak peak only the upper eicholon journos got to witness. (Oh,the privilege!)

 It's okay if Kat found the scene "uncomfortable" but even how she described it did not immediately make me think "rape". It seems Gabriel (Dracula) finds the family while in a weakened state and he needs to feed on them to survive and to restore his strength. Granted,it's still the terrifying and horrendous act of a supernatural predator murdering human prey but to say it's "sexual" is a stretch. It's more like a starving hobo walking into a Mc Donalds and finding a whole super-sized value meal left unattended! 

I'm actually excited about Lightning Returns! The more action based gameplay and job-switch system have me rather intrigues. Don't get me wrong. I like the turn based strategy battle systems of the olden days but then again, I've always been a beat em up/Hack & Slash fan too!