Tropes Vs Women 2 - Damsels In Distress Part Two : Circular Arguments Strike Back

The point is that it's irrelevant. The mere inclusion of the tropes in a video game is enough to warrant outrage, because again, even if they're only the main focus of the narrative, but not the game, they still exist as part of the repeated psychological onslaught of media experiences that together form the modern version of the institution of sexism. And to top it all off, they're attached to gameplay scenes and elements that seek to, at their very root, capture the mind of the player by evoking a powerful emotional response of the primitive variety, appealing to sex and lust, flight or fight responses, and survival of the fittest domination and command.

If the stories are pointless and take the far backseat to the excessive violence of the gameplay, then why bother resorting to damsel tropes at all? Just write a pomegranatety narrative that doesn't dehumanize any character, making all flat, two-dimensional shadows. It's not that difficult if that's really what's important in a game.

I think you're missing the point of a trope. It's a familiar and appealing story pattern that's easy to create variations on. As usual the only people getting outraged are the progressives that take everything too seriously.

Is there anyone reading what I'm reading?

It's kinda long but yes.