Awkward Moments in Gaming: The Vashyron Dance! (Slightly NSFW)
by Stephen Kelley, posted on 11 March 2011 / 2,564 Views
I recently began playing an RPG for the PS3 (it’s also available on the X-box 360) called Resonance of Fate. The game is fairly serious at times, and yet it never really strays too far from its core audience – dudes that like anime. In saying this, one notices pretty quickly that some of the humor in the game is pretty over the top, especially scenes featuring the aristocratic “cardinals” and their many quests that they place the player’s party in. At the point of the game I am at, you have a handful of these hedonistic rich folks including: a shy nerdy cardinal who ogles at Leanne (one of the party members), a creepy artistic cardinal who collects evil blood stained marionettes covered with chainsaws then places them in a garden, and finally a cardinal that is so into the food she eats that she literally gets off on it.
This scene in particular happened to be one of a few scenes that my wife walked past as I was playing the game, and let me tell you - it was the definition of awkward. To set the scene, we find our party members called urgently to the aid of Cardinal Barberella. Being a group of adventuring “hunters” that get paid for doing odd-jobs and killing stuff, a job from a cardinal is not something to pass up. When the job in question turns out to be frivolous, it takes Vashyron about three seconds for his mind to wind up in the gutter:
(Warning: slightly NSFW)
