Today we will discuss the ambiguous feature of many games that came from manga and anime, namely Fanservice. This trend is not new, but in modern titles we notice it more and more often. Many developers add it to attract a new audience, sometimes forgetting about gameplay, plot and other important aspects of the game. But first, we designate what it is.
What is a fan service and why it is needed?
Fanservice – a reception designed to attract the attention of the viewer (literally – "maintenance of fans"). These are scenes, individual objects in the frame, sometimes references aimed at satisfying the aesthetic needs of any group of fans. Fanservice, as a rule, does not affect the plot. The viewer is given what he wants to see, whether it be armored, giant robots or references. Fanservice has long been an integral part of the world pop culture. But today we will consider armored vehicles, although there are other types of fan service described above.
Examples of the correct fan service in games
The famous heroine from this game, namely 2b immediately won the hearts of gamers. She is in a skirt and high heels, with attractive forms of body. It is immediately clear that this is definitely a fan service.
But then the screenwriter caught you, because behind a beautiful heroine an extremely cruel story is hiding, saturated with terrible scenes. The conflict of robots and androids reveals the world after the fall of mankind from an incurable virus. Robots are trying to imitate people and give life, form their small settlements in the destroyed city and deep forest. The plot is fully revealed only after the third passage and spontaneously produces bizarre philosophical topics, in addition to biblical references, metaphors in the names of the main trinity of characters and complex ups and downs of plot moves.
In this case, the Fanservice performs its function correctly, attract the audience by inserting the heroine.
From the very moment of the announcement, the main character was chopped by the eyes of many gamers. And when they showed how she descends from the stairs, what kind of tight and very causing costumes she had, a real splash occurred. And this is not surprising, after all, after many games diluted by the agenda, she became a bright star and a huge audience became interested in the game, although this is exclusive to PlayStation 5.
This is a Shift Up debut console project and it turned out to be very interesting in terms of gameplay, but not a plot. The plot is quite mediocre, the characters will be forgotten immediately after the final credits. In this regard, this is not nier: automata.
But the gameplay is one of the best in the genre. You will always find either a chest, then a riddle with a reward at the end, in general, the world is beautiful, stylish, saturated and it is interesting to study it. The battles also cause a sense of admiration, a large number of offenses and skills make them juggle and choose the right path to killing the enemy.
Here the developers used the fan service a little differently, but also correctly. To attract a person not to plot ups and downs and living characters, but to the exploration of the world and pleasure from every battle.
Examples of a bad fan service in games
The First Descendant
The most attractive skin of this game is, of course, Bunny with its own tight -fitting outfits.
This is the next Asian luter-beer copying icons, mechanics and weapons from Warframe and Destiny 2 justifying this by the fact that it is difficult to come up with something new. And if not for these outfits, then about the game would have learned much smaller players online would not be so high. Gameplay for the luter-beer is quite good, it’s nice to shoot all weapons. A huge set of loot falls, different guns chips for them, etc. D How in all normal games of such a genre.
But for a long time you will not linger in it, you plunge into it, go out, and go further to the release more interesting releases. And the fan service is here for the Fanservice, it works like a plug so that you linger in it longer and threw more money to the developer for the next skin.
Snowbreak: Containment Zone
(Substitute any 3D anime girl)
This is one of the most filler gachs in which I played. Everything is so sterile here that besides good shooting, there is nothing to discuss. Standard 3D anime graphics, standard prolonged Dialogs, Standard Gacha with Beautiful Dances. You can’t even catch on the plot, it is the most standard here. Even The First Descendant has its own highlight. There is simply no one here.
Although wait, a new update came out with erotic dates that raised it online. And this is the most obvious example of the absolutely incorrect use of the fan service in games. It was added not in order to attract attention and tell or show something interesting inside the game, but simply to attract attention to the void! Into the void of the world and the plot. In the void of gameplay and mechanic. Into the void of the characters and their experiences of which are not here.
Fanservice is good only in certain games, and bad in many others. It is neutral. This is a technique, an instrument, and if the screenwriter knows how to use it, he can please and attract the viewer not to the expense of the work.
The main thing is to remember that this is an important part of the industry. Some studios keep afloat mainly thanks. Separate weak games go only at his expense. The task of a good screenwriter who does the fan service is to make it organic for the game. And make it supplement it and only improve it.
Nier: Automata
Stellar Blade
The First Descendant
Snowbreak: Containment Zone
The best comments
The case is interesting for analysis, but the author painted only examples of a “sexual” nature, although he himself wrote in the beginning that the fan service can be not only in the form of beautiful girls, but also in the form of various references and other various kinds of things that attract players, and without affecting the plot, etc.p.
You could mention the M-7 Lancer from the citadel, with the same mechanics of overheating from the first Mass Effect.
Or as the developers of the fourth, it seems like filling the game with references to the second part, completely forgot about the main idea of how ordinary things like cashing out a check or buying milk can turn into chaos – which is why the game from the amount of ordinary trash began to be more like a sad three, IMHO IMHO, IMHO.
My answer: Fanservice is great, but when it is realized competently. I love him very much, I often lack him and I have someone to fight strongly for his crooked implementation.
As for me, the Stellar Blade fan service is not very different from The First Descendant. Vulgar animations of the launch of the stairs, the yelch physics of the whole heroine, a frequent emphasis on the 5th point of the heroine in Katsets and during battles with bosses. What exactly is nervous – too obvious incompetence of such a frank (if not porn) sexualization and character of the heroine, who is all such a bad innocent sheep for all the good against all the bad.
How else can I say, in moderation good. I even like female characters, but covered. Examples:
Selena (PGR), Ravness Loxaerion (Tactics Ogre), Aurelia (Trails of Cold Steel 3). This is on a vapid.
Fanservice is not bad, in general. It just matters how much it is, otherwise now Fire Emblem Fates is passing. There is Camilla – a good example. But Charlotte is already hentai, just armored and straps, bruh. Although I believe that the most fan -service outfits should be in the DLS in order to distract less.
And so I just want at least normal/beautiful female faces to be. And not like the current backfall Heydev.
When you get down the screen too intrusive, you can simply not play, just get interested in another kind of fan service. I would have corrected that not at all “recently”, such a tendency has always been, an uncountable number of sensual virgins who spent in the arms of a powerful warrior, a quite typical picture of the same books, another century. The outfits do not forget about the gameplay, they just need to repel investments, offering a slightly different tracing paper, where everything is so familiar, understandable and loved, maybe it will shoot, then you can think about the game of dreams, not an eternal beta, for a wide consumer. I once watched a few years ago, the history of armor.
That’s right! This is what I meant when writing a blog.
Fanservice is good only when it is in moderation.
Here I really want to agree with the author. Когда «сексуальный» фансервис это не простая уловка, но ещё и способ привлечь твоё внимание на другие вещи, которые скрывает за собой игра. Although you look at Stellar Blade and understand that with some things, the subclables have been too far over.
In fact, it is, just in Stellar Blade gameplay and the world is much better than in The First Descendant. The first descentant does not even have this advantage.
Actually, I wanted to say about this.
Because the rampant and merciless desecs and leniency. Dumb hypocrisy and cheap morality. Sargsyan and Svitby. Concord, Tlou2, Fable3, IU: Andromeda and countless other games with new ugly female characters or, the most vile, converted into old freaks.
The camera removed from the ass of Miranda, in the end!
And everyone is tired of it.
About a year until 2012, beauty and sexuality were the norm, and only one fan service could not leave:
– Everyone has beauties and tight costumes than you want to surprise? Show that there is still in the game.
And then everything rolled into asexual darkness, while forgetting about the audience. Until it has reached the level:
– The game has a physics of the chest and tight costumes?! Shut Up and Take My Money!
And although the calls were earlier (the same subverse exploding Kikstarter in 19), but perhaps it was by 2024 the eternal truth of the SEX SELLS began to come to life, and God forbid will come to life. Even the blizard filled with broken SJW and he remembered which “Rule” is the lion’s share of the fame of Overwatch, and rolled out the lovely jun. What can I say about the rest who sell projects on advertising only the editor of the characters with 4 ass settings (hello Mecha Break).
And the most ironic thing is that for all this you can thank precisely the main progressive exchanges and other non -bibs who have forgotten that they are buying the games not their tweeter audience, and brought the industry to such an extreme state. And the beauties make the cashier.