Sexualization in Fighting Games

Fighting games are not the kind of genre that could advertise itself by promising 20 hours of engaging story, big open worlds, complex quest lines, or millions of guns. When someone walks into an arcade, they have to see and hear your game, and they have to like what they see more than with any other title.

This extremely competitive arcade environment shapes a lot of choices during the development. Your game had to have better graphics or animations than any of the competitors, it needs some super catchy and energetic soundtrack, and of course, it needed characters that people would fall in love with at first sight.

The latter could be achieved in many ways.