Patch 4.3- Open letter from an abuse victim

[Zephanoa]

Not to play down the severity of the issue at hand because it's a rough subject... But I think that relegating it to capitalizimg on people's pain is a short sighted view on the narrative. There are other parts in this story where this kind of plot device is hinted near the beginning of the game. Long post short, murder, sexual abuse, oppression and the like can be considered capitalizing on people's suffering.

I am sorry you had the experience OP, it's a bad situation but I definitely disagree on how the narrative is used. In fact it could be interpreted as it being made an awareness. People have/will have suffered from this and maybe can identify with certain parts.

I wouldn't want the dev team to walk on egg shells when it comes to story narrative. I feel that the Dev team for localization goes above and beyond and I applaud them for their work.

[Lambdafish]

Just so you know, I sympathize with what you have gone through massively OP. I wanted to say that because what I am about to say may seem uncaring, but that is simply because your personal struggle isn't what is being talked about, rather the narrative focus of the game.

To put it bluntly, you need to get over it, fiction and world-building are simply that, and hardships such as sexual abuse, theft, and murder and eons old subjects that have been both fact and fiction for just as long. Its a hyperbolic argument to make, but we see murder all the time for "shock value". When a party member (FF7) is brutally killed so you can feel something towards the plot it is celebrated, but if you have experienced that kind of death should you call for more awareness on how death is handled in videogames? Sexual assult is exactly the same, Yotuyu is arguable the most interesting and complex character in stormblood because we can sympathise with her dispite her atrosities. That is due to the nature of her past that you want us to consider, and I think it would be a massive disservice to the future of the narrative for the devs to limit themselves in that way.

As a side note, never watch game of thrones, it succeeds in its storytelling due to harsh themes such as this.