The Average Gamer

Dreamfall – Sex on Legs?

I am not a heterosexual man. As such, I feel that I’m probably not qualified to decide if videos of women are titillating or not. Nevertheless, I am a fan of equality and I despair of the hyper-sexualisation of women in so many games.

Another blogger has posted about Zoe Castillo’s opening sequence in Dreamfall. Specifically, he feels that it cheapened the tone of an otherwise positive female-friendly game.

I can’t see it. I didn’t it when I first played the game and I don’t see it now. So I’m turning to you, dear readers. Watch the following two 30-second videos of the scene in question and tell me what you think, in the poll and the comments. (The free poll software I found requires Javascript.)

Beware very, very minor spoilers, as one would expect from 60 seconds worth of in-game video clips.

Video 1:



Video 2.

This clip features Wonkers. He’s the “Watilla” I talked about in my Dreamfall review back in May. He’s super-cute, huh? I still want one…



Here’s the poll

I’m not haven’t linked or posted exact quotes from the original site as I don’t want to bias anybody’s opinion. I’ll link to the post that inspired this one when the results are in.