![]() ![]() For starters, while games often require players to pick a class or team role and stick with it, “Fat Princess” allows gamers to play one of five different classes (priests who heal, workers who build stuff, warriors who handle the close-range combat, etc.) But with “Fat Princess,” you can switch class at any time simply by changing the hat your character wears. The fun is amped up by a couple of clever gameplay twists. “It’s basically all about cooperation, chaos, having a great time and just having a giggle,” says Craig Leigh, Titan Studios creative director and the lead designer behind “Fat Princess.” You can play the game by yourself, but it’s really meant to be played against others online in epic multiplayer battles. You’re also tasked with slicing, dicing and generally mowing down your enemies as fast as you can (cue the blood splatter). You, the player, are but a lowly subject in one of the kingdoms, sprinting about a chaotic battlefield trying to keep the enemy princess locked up in your castle while also saving your own princess from the opposing team’s castle. The skinny on “Fat Princess” is this: It is a fast-paced game set in a cartoonish fairytale world - a medieval world in which the Red Kingdom and the Blue Kingdom are engaged in a brutal war thanks to some magically delicious cake. And while it does star two adorable and, yes, sometimes chubby cartoon princesses and does feature buckets of cartoon blood, I can’t say that it seems particularly hurtful or harmful to anyone. It’s done in a playful style and has a wicked sense of humor about almost everything. (Does this mean my membership application is going to be rejected?)Īs video games go, “Fat Princess” is fun, funny and well-crafted. I’m a pro-woman kinda woman (Go women!) who would happily pay the dues to join Club Feminist (we do pay dues, right?) And yet, there’s not a single pro-woman bone in my body that is offended by this game. All of this, I believe, qualifies me to say: I don’t know what the big fat deal is. ![]() ![]() Here we are one year later and “Fat Princess” has finally arrived on the PlayStation Network and I have finally played it and I am, as it turns out, a woman. Some other people read these blogs, and - many of them being mean-spirited menfolk and the sorts of hairy trolls usually found living under bridges - started using their own blogs and e-mail accounts to call these women not-so-nice names (you know, to prove that video games and the people who play them really aren’t hostile to women).Īnd just like that, discourse on the topic of women, weight and video games had hopped aboard the express train to Flame War Town with some people accusing the pitchfork-wielding feminists of being a bunch of humorless video-game-hating killjoys and others accusing gamers of being a bunch of misogynistic mouth-breathing fanboys of the most Neanderthal kind.ĭid I mention that no one had actually played “Fat Princess” yet? And so they did what offended people do in these modern times - they blogged about how offended they were. These people - women who consider themselves feminists - declared the game hostile to ladykind, offensive to overweight people and, apparently, unsympathetic to the plight of royalty everywhere. ![]()
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