In short: you do not want accidental dissonance that ensures the visual language is making loud fart noises over your Very Serious Dramatic Moment.Īnd that’s precisely what one of the most infamous Mass Effect 2 butt shots does:
This is why it’s important to understand what your visual language is saying and ensure it harmonizes with the spoken language-unless, of course, you want the dissonance between the two to be deliberate and communicate on its own wavelength. Visuals communicate just as clearly-sometimes more clearly-as the spoken word. Everything in the frame is (or should be ) a choice. They can make a scene feel tense and confining, or convey joy, transformation, alienness, et cetera. Done well they can convey a range of emotions through deft use of visuals. The Artistic Problemįirst, what’s actually wrong with the butt shots in the first place? What’s gained by changing them? That’s an artistic question.Ĭutscenes are, by design, cinematic.
I could just leave it there, to point out the obviousness of the mountain that Twitter sharted out over a hapless molehill, but it’s worth defending this particular artistic choice, and then delving deeper into the sexual bankruptcy of the “puritan” accusation being leveled by some. No one’s covered up, the camera angles are just more tasteful at key moments. Indeed, now that the Remaster has hit the streets, we can see that it was as advertised. why was that focusing on Miranda's butt? So in some cases, we said, 'Okay, we can make a change there'." Earthshattering, I know. What started the social media firestorm back in February was an interview with Metro, where Mass Effect: Legendary Edition's Project Director Mac Walters said that his team had only changed some of the camera angles: "Kevin actually called out some camera cuts that were just. Miranda’s butt shots (and most of the casual titillation throughout Mass Effect, actually) are dishwater-dull, however. Sex isn’t static it’s life itself it’s part of your personality it’s expressive and vibrant. The butt should be free! But Mass Effect’s strangely wandering Miranda-cam is not “freedom” in any meaningful sense, and the tedium of this Groundhog Day debate about sexuality in games illustrates how narrow the horizons of sexuality remain in gaming.Īfter all, there’s much, much more to sex than the occasional butt shot. #freethebutt,” reads one representative tweet, with four screenshots of various video game women’s butts attached. “Since human anatomy is now considered problematic according to game journalists, here's a bunch of pictures of some nice videogame arses.
Ever since it was first reported that BioWare were planning to remove some of the (in)famous butt shots from Miranda Lawson’s cutscenes in Mass Effect’s remaster, there was a feeding frenzy from outrage-merchants on social media.
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