Feminism as Fan Service? Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 Review | LaserLemming.com
Most of my exposure to the Hyperdimension Neptunia series was through reviews which took offence to the game’s “questionable sexual content and JRPG tropes”, both of which are rather easy targets in modern videogaming culture so were hardly enough to put me off; in fact, they only helped to pique my interest!
Of course this means that I was largely ignorant of the series; I didn’t really know what to expect beyond fan service and traditional JRPG gameplay, so I was somewhat surprised when I was greeted by a bald Meijin Takahashi delivering the obligatory gaming hygiene message with much gusto pre-intro.
This was soon followed by a detailed, semi-animated anime panel featuring bondage, jiggling breasts and a mixture of heavy breathing and painful grunts; a rather disturbing juxtaposition, but a highly amusing one that perfectly set the tone for the rest of the game—a mixture of self-aware humour, amusing social commentary, farce and parody.
