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Remember Super Princess Peach? It was a lighthearted little platformer for the DS that featured some equally lighthearted sexism. I'm not about to write a thesis on the game--though in my self-serving academic life, that'd be just the thing to propel me to the top--but there's something to be said about the choice to make irrational mood swings Peach's weapon of choice. I like to think that the game contained little, collectable bottles of Pamprin until someone with some sense intervened.
RPG factory Atlus looks like they're ready to tread this same ground with their upcoming DS RPG titled My World, My Way. Known as The World Revolves Around Me in Japan (title translated, of course), My World, My Way confirms that Japan can only identify two kind of women: the kindly anemic lass, and the unbridled bitch. From what the official web site is telling me (Warning: it will make your mouse pointer all sparkly and stuff), MWMW is about a spoiled princess--obviously, hypersexualized and preteen--turned adventurer who uses something called "Pout Points" to control the world around her. Methinks someone on the development team had a nasty breakup.
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