Regarding forbidden words: Will Austin Walker ever refrain from using "Jesus Christ" as a curse? Will anyone at Giant Bomb? Will they ever empathize with how that pains Christians? Will they ever try to understand the lived experiences of Christians and stop invoking the name of their Lord as a curse? Of course not. Our culture has chosen what is sacred, and it is not Christ. Christians may be reviled and hurt. With Austin and his ilk, it always comes down to "Who, Whom." There is no principle.
And so, it is illegitimate to cater to the visual pleasure of men. That a woman might be sexually interesting even when she doesn't "own" it is a Bad Thing. A video game character may be sexy only when she is being sexy for her own backstory -- which, of course, must be a story about being Empowered. You may be sexy only for the sake of your Feminist Solipsism. Yay.
Abby is really just expressing her own sort of prudery. Which is OK. But call it what it is.
You should definitely do a little bit of everything, but some things, like the real estate, are boring to watch, especially when I'm thinking about all the good story that isn't happening. So few games have an engaging main story but this one does. Mini-games should be little breaks, not the point.
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