Let's Sperg No Male Heroes - Straw sexism at it's finest.

[c-no]

Why do you guys spend your time playing shitty games?

At least DSP gets paid for it.

Because, our Kiwis do it for free and they actually try unlike DSP. Just ask Smutley when he played Revolution 60.

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

But he was wearing long jeans and a long sleeve shirt when he got jumped. I'm not sure if this is some kind of statement about rape victims or just laziness.

It's both. And it's a crappy statement at that.

Now, on to Chapter 5!

By this point in the game it becomes completely ludicrous. I couldn't stop laughing at it because of how corny it was.

You wake up in a dungeon that Arlette owns, and as you can tell from the above screenshot, Karl is here. This is his 10th time being abducted in general, with only Arlette capturing him a second time. You can ask him a few things, but basically, Mary and Arlette where working together to stop a corrupt South American government, but Arlette was with the corrupt regime the entire time. Mary defeats her in battle and Arlette swears revenge.

Karl seems to really enjoy getting captured and imprisoned.

He'll even tell you it's impossible to escape and that you should just wait for your rescue.

So you need to escape the dungeon yourself. You interact with the bed to take the sheets and make a rope with them, then you go to the crate and interact with it so you can push it towards the window. And soon, freedom!

Sadly, Arlette stops you from doing so.

She explains that you're not allowed to leave until you're rescued and magically teleports away. So you got back to the bed and rest. When you wake up the next day:

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED KARL! YOU BASTARDS! Actually, I don't really care... Mary arrives too late and Arlette gets away via another Stock RPG Maker effect.

Sadly, Mary will not rescue you when you ask her to, since she needs to avenge Karl's death, but more importantly, because it's Leslie's job. So let me get this straight, you saved Neil from two teenage girls trying to rape him, but you won't rescue him from a dungeon, not even on Leslie's behalf?

Bitch.

So you need to go to sleep again, since you can't escape the cell. Leslie finally comes and rescues Neil. You could reluctantly thank her, just go "whatever, I'm outta here", or you can do this:

No, Leslie doesn't die, he slaps her. I'm such an asshole.

He leaves for the final chapter of this awful game. Stick around!

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Karl looks like a crack head.

 

[QI 541]

Reminds me of that time where I once saw a short film that showed a effeminate man getting bullied and discriminated by women. I thought the moral was "sexism happens both ways" because there was a scene where the man gets sexually assaulted by women and the police don't take it seriously (which seems like what would happen in real life), but apparently the moral was "men, this is what women feel like every day".

 

[Ruin]

I am so tempted to whip out RPG maker VX and make a hentai parody of this.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I thought the moral was "sexism happens both ways" because there was a scene where the man gets sexually assaulted by women and the police don't take it seriously (which seems like what would happen in real life), but apparently the moral was "men, this is what women feel like every day".

That is what happens in real life. Male sexual assault is something that needs to be taken more seriously.

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

I am so tempted to whip out RPG maker VX and make a hentai parody of this.

Do it. I got one last chapter to finish.

Yeah, they rip off The Matrix.

So Neil reads an E-mail from Cathy, upset over the fact that he's divorcing Leslie. Then this happens:

Regardless of whether or not you're hesitant to overthrow women, you'll be told to take either the red pill or the blue pill. The red pill wipes your memory of everything that's happened. The blue pill reveals the truth.

First, the red pill ending.

He wakes up and has to make a sandwich for his wife. Then the green light comes from the computer, causing the "Here we go again" ending. That's nothing compared to the blue pill ending, which basically has them shilling for Anita Sarkeesian.

And that's it. That's the end of this crappy game. It's been fun!

 

[GeorgeDaMoose]

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Neil comes back home and heads to the bathroom. Here, you can clean up, take a few sleeping pills, or overdose on them, getting a game over. No seriously, here's the screen.

Why does he need to clean up? Why would he take sleeping pills if he's in pain? This game sure makes me sympathize with these poor oppressed men.

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But he wasn't even wearing shorts dammit, at least make him wear shorts if you're going to say he did.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

What a load of sexist crap.

 

[Iä! Iä!]

Who the fuck passes out from 3 beers?

 

[A Random]

I would, but that's because I can't deal with alcohol. And I'd probably get shittier in other ways first.

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

Why does he need to clean up? Why would he take sleeping pills if he's in pain? This game sure makes me sympathize with these poor oppressed men.


But he wasn't even wearing shorts dammit, at least make him wear shorts if you're going to say he did.

Yeah, it's hard to find his clothes revealing when even the sprite wears jeans. I'm more annoyed that people would find crotches attractive and that should be the first thing they stare at. From the GameFAQs review I posted in the OP:

A particularly egregious example comes when our main character is cat called by a few teenage girls. The literal line that is delivered by one of the girls is “nice crotch.” First of all, as small as it may be, this proves that this game was written by a male. I'm going to need to go into some sex-ed stuff here in order to explain this.

The female equivalent to a man staring at a woman's chest is not a woman staring at a man's crotch. If anything, the sexual equivalent would be, get this, a man's chest! The difference is that there is no taboo against men being shirtless and showing their chest while women would get arrested for the same thing. Maybe it would have been a good idea to explore that double standard seeing as how fiction does not seem to talk about it that much, but no, because god forbid we acknowledge that there are different perceptions that men and women have of each other.

Before I forget, she also posted this too outside of her review:

Basically, this game is kinda what i like to consider an RPG maker movie (think of something like To the Moon only from hell). As such, it pretty much becomes worthless if the writing is bad. However, not only is the writing in this thing bad, it is blatantly offensive to. Yes feminists are going to say "oh but calling out sexism isn't sexist" but the way i see it, there is one way to look at it. If someone made a story about how all black people are loud obnoxious criminals who hate white people, people are going to come down on them.

Yes feminists are going to think their misandry is fully justified through whatever excuse they can come up with, but they are the only ones. Yet the thing is, despite talking down to men this whole time, it is still clearly meant to try and convince men the supposed woes of women in gaming. That is easily how one can tell with its shallow attempt to relate to try and put men in the women's shoes by having the genders swapped, yet they fail at that by still having said men act like stereotypical women and vice versa. The goal of this game is not to entertain Tumblr feminists, it is supposed to be a satire in order to convince detractors of the belief of sexism in gaming that it should be taken more seriously. Yet does anyone think that this will come even remotely close to convince anyone of those people in GamerGate otherwise?

Hell, i'm generally very anti feminist and SJW, yet I could write a better pro feminist story than this guy did. In fact i'm almost somewhat tempted to give my own take on this premise but I find myself lacking the motivation to do so most of the time.

 

[StallChaser]

It's like it can't tell the difference between real life and video games, even ignoring the fact that everything about gender roles is overexaggerated. The first few chapters are trying to be like real life (going shopping, a dinner party) that don't generally happen in video games. But then the dungeon thing is like trying to be the damsel in distress trope in a video game. In real life, some psychopath with a dungeon doing kid- mannappings like that would make national news. It's like it's trying to do some sort of meta-video-game-thingy all of a sudden after playing it like it's the real world in all the previous chapters.

There's also the fact that the trope of "break someone out of prison and they become a party member" or "get thrown in prison and plan an escape with a fellow prisoner" is much more common. In fact, the ones I can think of off the top of my head are in FF12 (rescue Basch (a dude!) from prison, which is as close as you can get to a vanilla "rescue a passive damsel", because of how completely locked up in restraints he was) and in Star Ocean 3 where your party of 2 dudes (Fayt and Cliff) are broken out by a woman (Nel) who joins your party.

That is, unless it's meant as like some sort of next level irony in that it strawmans video games in the same way Anita's videos do and shows the parallels between the damsel in distress trope and Anita herself. If that's the case, well played game maker person!

 

[autisticdragonkin]

There's also the fact that the trope of "break someone out of prison and they become a party member" or "get thrown in prison and plan an escape with a fellow prisoner" is much more common. In fact, the ones I can think of off the top of my head are in FF12 (rescue Basch (a dude!) from prison, which is as close as you can get to a vanilla "rescue a passive damsel", because of how completely locked up in restraints he was) and in Star Ocean 3 where your party of 2 dudes (Fayt and Cliff) are broken out by a woman (Nel) who joins your party.

That is, unless it's meant as like some sort of next level irony in that it strawmans video games in the same way Anita's videos do and shows the parallels between the damsel in distress trope and Anita herself. If that's the case, well played game maker person!

As with all antigamergaters the creator hasn't played videogames since 1996.
Despite the name Gamergate is actually the fifth fundamental force in the universe and has nothing to do with videogames

 

[wheat pasta]

Yeah, I actually find this shit more offensive than anything I get from other gamers who just happen to be dudes.
I wanna slap whoever made this, shame on them.
Thanks for sharing with us though, OP! I gotta admit some of the game did make me laugh. Like all those typos, goodness.

 

[Hummingbird]

Props for getting through this. It's sad how these people don't even want to make something you can truly play. If they can, it's usually buggy or overly simple.

 

[P.A]

Every time I see the thread title, I keep thinking it's a No More Heroes thread at first.

Then again, having Travis Touchdown in this might actually be more fun...

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

Props for getting through this. It's sad how these people don't even want to make something you can truly play. If they can, it's usually buggy or overly simple.

Somebody had to wade through this crap. Like, I really had to see how laughably bad it was.

Every time I see the thread title, I keep thinking it's a No More Heroes thread at first.

Then again, having Travis Touchdown in this might actually be more fun...

That was my same thought too. I may as well play that game again because it's so fun.

 

[Frank_Jaeger]

If I was the guy I'd think "wow all these babes are fighting over me this is fucking awesome"

 

[Bungleboy]

Did I just seee a feminist-made game ending in the protag becoming an MRA?