I'm sitting in a roundtable interview with a handful of journalists after having just spent more than an hour playing Lords of Shadow 2, the scene in question being one in which a withered Dracula stumbled toward a family with his arms outstretched, the camera abruptly switching to a first-person perspective. He kills the father outright, then grabs the mother and sinks his fangs into her neck, draining her life energy to restore his.
Sexualized imagery is nothing new in vampire fiction, but this scene is kind of stunning for how blatant it is with its allusions to rape. It's a scene that forcibly reminds me of the boxart from RapeLay, down to the woman protecting her child and the disembodied arms (your arms) reaching out from the camera. Regardless of the intentions in constructing the scene, the imagery is ghastly.
Yes, I told Cox. That scene did in fact make me uncomfortable. His reply is so swift that I can barely even get the word "yes" out of my mouth: "That's what we wanted. That's exactly what we wanted."
So while I applaud Cox and his team for their desire to take on challenging material, I really hope they cut the Family Scene before Lords of Shadow 2 launches next month.
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Call me whatever you want, but I'm not really feeling how that scene is a rape allusion, at least from the description alone. The fact that he goes for the woman? Well, homosexual rape is a thing too, would therefore any act of drinking blood make one think of rape, in a game where you play as a vampire? The author has made her point quite clearly, but I'm just not sure I agree with it. Interested in everyone else's thoughts.
EDIT:
For comparison, here are what other previews said about the scene.
http://www.destructoid.com/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-is-bold-and-uncompromising-268627.phtml
http://www.gamesradar.com/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-review/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-08-the-god-of-war-comparisons-really-pissed-us-off
An important thing that can be learnt from these articles is that Dracula, in fact, feeds upon all three family members and not only the woman. Kat herself, however, said on Twitter that she only saw the woman being fed upon, which might be why her impressions are different from the previews above.
EDIT2:
As if there was any doubt, anyway.
EDIT3:
It seems either she didn't see the whole scene or someone is being untruthful.
https://twitter.com/CastlevaniaLOS/status/422840586773995520