Huniepop was created when a team of absolute sexist, racist douchebags looked at the match-3 genre, one of the ONLY niches where women could safely exist in gaming, and decided that now it was for them.
They walked into this place, tinkered with some of the mechanics, then smeared submissive big-titted anime tiddies with daddy issues all over it.
They made the asian girl love rice, they made the Latina a single mom, they gave us a barely legal cheerleader and her pornstar mother and gave all of them the depth of the dirty tissues they masturbated into to create these fantasies. They had the audacity to turn to the player with a wink and a smirk. “Oh Boy, the SJWs are really gonna hate this!” They sigh and look wistfully out of the window. “They just don’t understand how self-aware we are, how we know this is some sexist shit.” They lean in, expectant. “They just can’t take a joke, but you can, right?”
And everyone went apeshit for it.
They praised the “puzzles,” the hilarious writing, the depth that this game in which the main character lies and manipulates his way into sleeping with several women who don’t know he’s seeing someone else and don’t even care to discuss this with most of them. They praised the differing body types of “huge boobs” and “small boobs” and “small hips” and “big hips but still skinny and conventionally attractive.” They made thousands of Let’s Plays, censoring the nudity with goofy pictures of themselves, oh man you guys I can’t believe this game had the balls to objectify women the way they’ve been objectified since the start of modern gaming but even more!!! How stunning and brave this game is, how cool I am for playing this in a male and white-dominated sphere where almost no one will push back against it.
How brave I am for trying to fuck a catgirl with big knockers and the emotional development of a 6-year old who has basically no option but to live in my house and calls me master.
The gamification of obtaining sex from women is so commonplace some people don’t even see it as a critique. There have been hundreds of games and visual novels and even pick-up artist techniques which borrow the mechanics of games. Some people see the gamification of obtaining sex from women being so commonplace and are fucking terrified.
Are there things Huniepop does well? Yes, but that’s pretty irrelevant to this discussion. Pretty CGs, attractive characters, and a surprising depth of neat secrets matter for what they contribute to. What they contribute to is an awful lot of misogyny. The “puzzles,” which are Match-3 games that no one wants to call Match-3 games because Puzzles have more depth and weight to them, are somewhat mechanically interesting and fun but they are by no account “revolutionary.”
Are you a bad person for liking Huniepop? No. There are things to like about it. But you might just be a bad person if you look at everything Huniepot did with this game and think that nothing is wrong with it.
What I said about the Match 3 mechanics earlier? The choice of genre was not an accident. This game is a deliberate pushback that we’ve seen a lot of lately. Men becoming upset they they aren’t catered to in every way by every medium the way they used to be, and so create these “joking” takedowns of treating people like decent human beings. I mean treating women and minorities like people. I mean political correctness, sorry.
Where better to put women in their place in a display case of Huniepot’s choosing than a place they thought was their own? Until recently, almost no one heard about match-3 games outside of breakout hits: Bejeweled and the mom-adored Candy Crush, maybe Puzzle Quest. But the types of games that have been relegated to the casual sphere, those derided by the Hardcore or Bust gang? The hidden objects, the match-3s? That’s where women went to escape the toxic air spewed in those spaces. That was the one place they could count on being safe because no one else cared about them. Cry me being unfair or not all men all you want, but one of us has actually looked at the gaming industry as a whole, and one of us looked at the place they were welcomed and only the place they were welcomed.
Huniepot made a decent Match-3 game and coated it in toxic slime, like a boy licking the last cookies in front of his sister so she can’t have them. So she doesn’t want them anymore.
TL;DR: Huniepop is a deliberate attempt to turn a space that was previously dominated by women into a sexist and racist shithole and justifies its actions with a smug, self-satisfied mask of “teh lolz.”
“Aww, did I hurt your whore feelings?”
This is a good advertisement for huniepop, two paragraphs in and I wanted to buy it
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