c/infinitynikki - An Infinity Nikki fan community
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/32471132
Infinity Nikki - A community dedicated to the open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki! Share your screenshots, outfits and fanworks <3
copy/pasted from my comment on !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Game is actually very high-quality. A lot of girly games I grew up with were… not of the best quality, while more stereotypically boyish or gender-neutral fare was better. This game is aimed at women/girls and actually has very nice gameplay and graphics (and people of other genders can absolutely enjoy it too). As of now there are soft and hard timegates but they do not feel anywhere near as frustrating as typical mobile energy timers. I tried Ikemen Vampire and despite liking otome games, I bounced off super hard after a couple days of genuinely trying because so much was gated behind freaking energy. Progress on story can be soft-gated here (must level up clothes or get good enough clothes to certain amount, it takes energy to level up clothes or get certain—but not all—clothing materials) but you can still explore the open world, collect most materials, and dress up Nikki/play minigames to your heart’s content, so it feels way less bad.
At least, that’s why I am assuming such an innocent community ad has attracted downvotes so early on. It’s not some shovelware game or a Flash dress up game out of 2008 (though I did like the latter). In a period of my life where I am having trouble sitting down and just enjoying a video game, I have gotten quite hooked on Infinity Nikki. Tried on the recommendation of the OP once late December, have been playing almost daily ever since. It’s genuinely fun.
There's probably also an assumption that it's a soft core porn game, or at least going for sex appeal. Most mobile games marketing themselves on images of anime women are, when you get down to it.
That was my assumption when I saw this post. "Oh great, another anime waifu game where the characters breast boobily along." Complete assumption, but usually a safe one when it comes to mobile games I've never heard of that market themselves via pictures of anime women.
Hey thanks for the information! I didn't even realize that was going to be the assumption, even though you are absolutely right about games with that kind of icon often having characters designed and animated with horny straight men in mind (even if non-horny straight men and people of other demographics enjoy it too).
Part of why some women like the game is because we have nice hair and clothing physics (first game I have played where I can put waist-long hair on a 3D character without it clipping into their back!) but no boob jiggles or clothing flying up to reveal underwear or the like. In my opinion the most sexualized thing at all is the fact that there is a clothing style called "sexy." Even these clothes feel very designed for the eyes of women, and very not designed for titillation purposes.
When I heard about this game from an asmond reaction video I was really interested in it. Definitely subbing
Asmond... 😐
Ye I know no one likes him and I don't agree with him but the guy no life's on the computer so it's how I keep updated with the cyber world cause he "reacts" to everything
disappointed that this is not about porn star
I thought this was about Nikke first and was very confused about the girlypop nation association.