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While some of the sister donation scenes are very sexualised - Ava's in particular springs to mind - some are less so. The Nameless Sister, while featuring the same level of nudity as the other Sister Obscuras, doesn't strike me as being sexy. Beautiful, certainly but sexy, not so much. The Sister in the tower (Ira, Ima?) is another example - I imagine its hard to be sexy when you have...well...I'll say no more about her predicament, lest I spoil it.
Well, as to Ima, I imagine that bondage and/or duress aren't that uncommon a fantasy...
Also, yeah, Ava and Ire, maybe Aya too, are the most overtly sexual, while others hardly are (like Una, Echo, and Yani) but... tastes vary.
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Is the nudity and so on excessive or unwarranted? Hard to say. Perhaps a little excessive in places but unwarranted, I would have to say no. Nudity plays a role in many paintings, be it as a depiction of innocence, temptation or straightforward lust - why should the artistic medium of games be any different just because it involves a higher degree of interaction? Each of the Sisters signifies a different aspect of human nature, much like the Brothers and it would make sense for the nudity to be reflective of different meanings.
Hard to disagree with this. I only suspect that some people simply don't appreciate having tits & ass shoved in their face when they don't feel like it (or at all) - and let's face it, for most probably playing video games does not create the necessary mood. But there isn't really any problem there - The Void simply isn't for those people, it's not like they're forced to buy/play it.
Plus, the amount of erotica in The Void isn't really that much more than what we get in movies (the regular kind, of course
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It does beg the question though - the representations of the Brothers, I'm guessing, are their physical forms, like Uta's boat, or Nameless in the tree. If the Void depicted the Brother's Obscuras, I suspect they would be naked as well (with/without particle effects as appropriate). However, as there is no reason in the gameplay that would require the player to see a Brother's Obscura, its something we can only guess at.
(I'm unfamiliar with the term Obscura - the version I played was Polish Tension, and it either didn't exist back then, or got translated into something I can't easily connect to this, it's been almost a year since I played it, so maybe I just don't remember.)
The Brothers, though, unlike Sisters, don't seem to have to "disrobe" just to have a conversation; they also seem to have no appreciation for beauty/creation, and mutilated (improved?) their own bodies willingly (?), so perhaps it wouldn't be so...
I also agree with what Arjen said. The way the Sisters move when they're fed, and the way the light particles surround them is usually just... very pretty, more than sexual. (Heh, they kinda remind me of the transformations from Sailor Moon etc., though in reverse
- wonder if it's been some inspiration?)