Eamar said:
Well, I enjoy fighting games and that video has definitely ensured that I won't be buying this game. I'm sure there are plenty of others who'd feel the same way.
That said, I wouldn't be fooling anyone if I denied the existence of the large numbers of people who would probably be attracted to the game precisely because of that stuff, so...
It's not "necessary" and it will alienate some potential customers, but there's definitely a market for it.
Ultimately the issue is that this is not a game made my a major studio like Arc System Works (which has it's own issues with fanservice: Noel, Makoto, Platinum, Litchi and Bullet are the big offenders) but a single person.
The game is what is known as a doujin game (note, normal definition of doujin is that is it an independent effort made by a person or a circle, it does not alwasy imply hentai) made by an ex-Capcom sprite designer. Looking at gameplay, the sprites are decent, not blazblue level but servicable, but the actual animations seem slow and jerky and I swear to god that I see too strong a connection to other fighting game characters.
The guy would probably need something in order to attract people to his game and what better way to attract otaku and NEET than TnA if the gameplay is basic at best.
Reaper195 said:
Is the game Japanese? Yes. Does OP sound like s/he's from Japan? No.
Pretty simple right there. Everything with the exception of the last couple of Final Fantasy games that comes out from Japan is marketed towards the Japanese audience. Look at anime. Almost all of it has 'fan service'. It's part of the Japanese media culture. That's the equivalent of everyone outside the US going "Why can Breaking Bad show you how to cook and sell meth, graphic violence and child murder...but not some titties or someone saying 'fuck'?"
I do wish you refrain from such a generalized statement. Japan's relation with sex has been an odd one. Pre Meiji Japan was actually very liberal with sex in its writing and general lifestyle, hell women didn't even wear anything like panties but Koshimaki which is basically a giant skirt but nothing else underneath. When the US came, Japan quickly adopted several western cultural aspects, this included our prudishness. Japan in the modern era is actually facing a crisis since multiple factors are causing men to shift away from marriage and sex.
Also, Japan's view of sex is opposite of ours: its not that they tend to have it in everything, its that they believe it a more natural thing and did not impose heavy restrictions on sex like Europe during the Dark Ages and Renaissance. In fact, complants from the older generations will argue that the current one is less aggressive than before (Danger:Must Silence will tell you that's bullshit but I'm more relaying what they say)
Third, while Japanese media can have a focus on fanservice at times (see Sister is Unusual for an egregious example), We are seeing only a sliver of what they actually produce. The distribution of programming and content is roughly equal to the States in many ways.
Finally, the only reason why there is an increase in fanserice in anime is because of a shift in focus to the Otaku/NEET demographic which means they are going to focus less on stories and more on superficial awesome and sexy.