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But eager as we are to make progress beyond the industry’s bad habit of reducing female characters to either sidekicks or sex objects, it’s unfair to strip video game women of their sexuality completely, or to assert that if a character is sexual that she must be getting exploited. It’s wonderful that our entertainment medium is developing more characters that bring more to the table than their looks — but at the same time, we can accept that being mousy, tomboyish or turtle-necked is not the only way a woman can be considered admirable. Bayonetta’s elegant nakedness in the fervor of battle is not in and of itself a bad thing.
— Bayonetta: empowering or exploitative?, Feature Story from GamePro
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