What we havent seen is that this upgrade machine is an insatiable fridge of lust.
Weve seen sex robots before.
Theres nothing new under the sun, and all that.
When you meet her, its exciting to come face to face with Atomic Hearts first fresh idea.
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It becomes like a washed up celebrity repeating old catchphrases from a show thats gone off the air.
On the other hand, I get it.
Video games trail onlyMarvelmovies as the most sexless form of modern media.
It has the exact personality gaming needs more of, but it cant do anything with it.
Its not a woman reclaiming her sexuality, its a punchline.
The longer you play the game, the more you start to realise thats the intention.
While the male robots are identical and nondescript, they at least have faces.
They also have pretty standard bodies, slim but uninteresting.
The female robots however are faceless and come with cartoonish proportions on their hips and busts.
Were used to phallic design in architecture, something psychological about men trying to erect the biggest tower.
Any challenge it offers to the status quo, any woke sex positivity is all an accident.
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