In Guild Wars 2, there will soon be new Precursor armors that we can already preview in the game. It is especially noticeable that the new armors significantly change the anatomy of female Charr. The wild cat monsters have suddenly gained breasts!
Anthropomorphic animal beings are standard in many MMOs, and hardly any development studio abstains from the “Sexy-Furry-Look” for fluffy cat beings, meaning a portrayal that is as sexualized as possible. However, in Guild Wars 2, it is different. Here, while there is a race of cat-like creatures, they are more animalistic than human and do not even consistently walk on two legs. The genders also only differ in the shape of the horns, facial structure, and curiously in the fur of the tail! However, female Charr do not have pronounced breasts.
All or nothing!
Until now, because in pictures of the new Precursor armor set, which can already be admired as a preview, the Charr women suddenly have a proper bust in the chest armor. This contradicts Arenanet’s own design philosophy, as character designer Katy Hargrove stated back in 2011 that they deliberately avoided human sexual anatomy for the Charr:
“It really doesn’t make sense to have breasts on a female Charr, especially after all the effort we’ve put into making them sleek and wild […] There were some debates on the subject and I put them to the choice: Either we are subtle and downplay the breasts or we go full realism. Yes, that’s right – none or six!” This makes the new breast representation actually doubly wrong, because where have the other four breasts gone?
The same applied to female Asura, as the women of the Sylvari race previously also had no visible breasts, which they now receive with the new Precursors. But perhaps it’s not as wild as it seems, because the new armors have not yet been finalized and implemented in the game. However, it is still possible that the designers at Arenanet will make changes to the chest armors. By the way, the new armor design is not the only thing players are currently dissatisfied with in Guild Wars 2; there has also been trouble with the new pirate weapon set.
But how do you see it? Did you like the look of the Charr as it was before? Or do you think one should also orient oneself on human aesthetics in the case of animal beings and Sylvari? Write it in the comments!
