Feminized Franchises
Over at chicksdiggames.com, they’ve recently posted an article discussing video game genres that have been shifted toward catering to female gamers. My first thoughts are that given the context of the article (and the very site that it’s hosted on), I find it strange that it was written by a man. I often go to chicksdiggames.com in order to read up on women’s perspectives of the gaming industry, since they are–while growing in numbers–still the minority in the market.
That aside, I had difficulty figuring out what the focus on the article was supposed to be. At one point, I thought it was about games with male protagonists trying their hands at female characters in the lead. But then it feels like it shifts gears into being about franchises being re-skinned to appeal to women rather than men. The rest of the article just kinda falls apart near the end.
It’s poorly written, but it’s a topic that I always find worth reading about. Though I do like his “X-2=XX” joke. That was clever enough to forgive some typos.
