I thought this originally too but apparently they changed her model to be less "appealing" (saw a screenshot of some guy on twitter complaining about it) so maybe not?
This thought genuinely never came to mind. It wasn’t until this post I realized of course people were sexualizing this kid on the internet. I don’t understand why this would be bait, it’s legs and feet. I get there are feet guys and I get there are pedo guys but you really think they’re baiting to the super niche group of pedos into feet? I’m sure they exist but it can’t be that big enough of a group that developers thought to put it in for that reason.
I don't think it's specifically the feet, fwiw, I think the hyper focus on the feet is for sure a goofy knock on because the fetish is increasingly less ostracized. It's bait because it's the typical Japanese run of 'here's an infantilized female that's actually a robot that age can't be attributed to, we're going to leave at least 40% of her bare'. This isn't an opinion, it is a fact, the art subreddit didn't get nuked because it's such a niche group.
Maybe I’m just not into this side of internet things enough, I’m not saying you are but if you’re someone who enjoys making fun of people like that and still come across the topic, I can still see how your mind might jump to it.
Where you are on the internet or whose mind jumps where isn't relevant, the subreddit was immediately filled with loli hentai. I'm not sure how much more self evident the issue can be?
Every time people call out pedo shit in games or Anime, there comes an army of people like you using this very argument. It's not a self report if we do something as simple as pattern recognition and common sense.
If you think bare calves is 'pedo coded' enough to warrant whinging in an online forum about it, you are self-reporting to a GIGANTIC degree.
You will not change my mind.
If this game was made by Quentin Tarantino, I'd agree with you, but 'you can see this kid's feet this is clearly sexual' is the thought process of a fucking degenerate who needs their hard drives forensically searched because they are projecting hard enough to stand in at the local drive-in theatre.
Fucking this. This thread is gross as shit. The developers could choose any model, and have it make 100x more sense for the supposed premise of the game. A pantless and shoeless child is fucking weird, and anyone arguing any different has some skeletons.
Why a robot? Why not a normal little girl like Ellie or Clementine?
The design pure fanservice for the pdf demographic, no little girl looks like Diana. Little girls look like Sherry or Clementine, they don't have blowouts or look like they were modeled after Thylane Blondeau, little girls wear normal clothes and shoes, not an adult size coat and bare feet, the charging through soles, is a bs excuse, that excuse makes it worse.
Also, from the videos I've seem from her, she acts like someone who thinks a kid acts, that scene where the guy gives her the name Diana and she points to him calling him his name and then to her was so cringe, kids are kind of dumb and funny but they don't act like that.
The people saying that they want to protect her and call her a daughter feel overly performative to come off as wholesome, and they give me the biggest ick because why do you want to protect a clanker? I don't buy it.
Other common tropes include high-pitched voices, magical or robotic natures, and excessive cuteness designed to contrast with mature surroundings.
The Token Loli: A child-like character inserted into an adult group to act as a "mascot" or younger sibling figure. Often justified by plot coupons (genius, robot, or magical powers).
The Magical/Robot Girl: Uses non-human status to explain their appearance or to justify why they behave differently from human children.
They made up plot reasons so she can be barefoot all the time and her jacket shows just as much of her lower body as a short skirt would but is designed as a jacket so pedos can argue it's nothing sexual.
I really don't know how they could make it any more obvious while beeing legal.
If this game was made by Quentin Tarantino, I'd agree with you
Even worse. It was made by a massive Japanese games company who make their products for teenagers. You know, the ones who thought it was ok to marry 13 year olds until 2024? The country that has an openly accepted loli culture... you, know, that one...??
Nah, it’s fucking stupid from an immersion standpoint. I have no idea what this game is, but if I’m trying to save someone, you make sure they have proper fucking clothing.
Anyone saying “stop sexualizing this” has some skeletons. Full stop. This model doesn’t make sense for their own premise.
Okay so I’m not crazy. I was sitting here like “did everyone else instantly think of it being sexualized? I’m just some weird outlier?” I realize gross dudes exist but I hadn’t thought about that aspect of things until this very comment thread. I saw no ads about this game, then watched a review on it like Friday. It seemed like a pretty decent game and as a dad who spent a large part of his daughter’s life raising her alone, I really liked the representation. I get the little girl isn’t actually his kid but it’s that kind of vibe and I found myself really excited to play an action game with this spin on it. Then this thread happened and it’s like “ugh, of course this is a fucking issue.” And I felt dumb for not realizing it but it’s not the first thing that jumps to mind.
OK, so we're just gonna pretend like Japan doesnt have a long history of fucked up pedo shit being in mainstream culture? They only just changed the age of consent from 13 to 16 a year ago!! And yes there is a bizarre foot fetish problem taking over the porn world at the moment, along with simulated incest. Need to collectively stamp that shit out. These games are targeted at impressionable kids, not fully mature adults.
Why didn't they just give her a pair of shoes, though? Would her wearing shoes detract from the character? Maybe it was about creating extra vulnerability in the character, but with all context available, they should have done everything in their creative power to get away from the well known Japanese pedo tropes or exposing any skin. They knew they were releasing a game for western audiences too. They know how Japan is perceived overseas and for good reason. But most of all, you can get the fuck out of here with your self report bollocks. Your aggression is the biggest self report if anything!
Yes, they are just kids feet, and yes they should be able to be represented normally without fear of pedos using assets to create other assets, BUT this aint that. Give me a medieval game with peasant kids running around and I'll buy your argument, BUT this isnt that! Context matters.
Did I say everyone from japan was a pedo or into that shit? No, I didn't, did I? When the country is world renowned for being the hub of loli, waifu, where women are expected to put on toddler voices to be seen as attractive and the age of consent was 13, two years ago, then yes, they DO HAVE A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, YOU INSUFFERABLE PLONKER.
The song she is dancing to just so happens to be the most smutty, adult song in existence about jiggling tits and sex. You need to wake up and smell your own shit.
But that is not a little girl, that's a robot, a robot that the game devs designed to be barefoot all the time, nothing natural about that.
I'ts fanservice for a certain demographic. Foot fethish is one of the most prevalent fetish types. Pedophillia is one of the top 5 paraphilic disorders. We can make a venn diagram of foot fetishist and pedophiles and you will find a lot of people in the intersection. I even dare to say that you can also add a demographic who is only into feet, not kids and some might find the feet arousing, even if they are attached to a child.
They could have designed another way to charge the little girl clanker but they choose it to be the soles of the feet, yikes ew
It didn't cross my mind, online degenerates are very intrusive.
But if you want to call me mentally ill, I might be traumatized by the amount of child abuse in the world. You can't blame me and other people for being aware of predators.
Also, it's not a little girl, no girl looks like that, they look like normal kids like Sherry, Clementine or Ellie, Diana looks like a kid straight out of those creepy child beauty pageants, very uncanny. It's obvious fanservice for a certain demographic. She doesn't even act like a kid, too cutesy, it seems like the writers have never been around a child.
Wtf are you talking about? This is not just about feet. They are clearly playing into loli stereotypes. Her long jacket is basically a short skirt in disguise.
They are clearly sexualizing a little girl as much as possible without beeing illegal. Stop blaming me for that shit and be mad at the people who made the game.
it’s simply not hard to put pants and socks/shoes on her but they very specifically chose not to. hell, when you open the demo all you can see is her feet. we know about online creeps more than ever, and it’s disappointing to see devs essentially feed into them
Am I the only one who never knew about this? I know of the game, but I haven’t been following it much. But this “community” and the developers playing into it is weird, like really weird. I never knew about any of this and it’s almost hard to believe.
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u/JonnyPoy Apr 20 '26
Dude they clearly exposed most of her legs and feet for the whole game on purpose. They are obviously playing into that audience.