So, in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, my character has been raped twice today, even tho the story doesn't act as if he has been. And it's making me very uncomfortable. Both times, I wasn't asked for my consent (as a player and the character himself) and Henry was also inebriated.
The first time, I choose to drink at the tavern, and Henry keeps blacking out during the night because they keep drinking, and at one point, he wakes up (still drunk) naked, and a naked woman (that has no name so he doesnât know her name but she knows his name) approach and starts having sex with him. He is portrayed to enjoy it.
The second is the worst. There are three women who are getting high to communicate with the devil. I, by accident, interrupted them, and they started offering themselves to Henry, thinking he was the Devil. He REFUSED and tried to talk them out of their state, but they drugged him in the process. Now high, he thinks he is the Devil, and the game GIVES ME BACK THE CONTROLS so I can choose which women I will have sex with first. Like, they make you participate in the rape of Henry. I used that moment to load my last safe, because I was uncomfortable, even tho it made me lost an hour of gameplay, because you cannot save whenever you want, only when you sleep in your bed. Anyway, I redo the quest, but this time, I don't interrupt the women. AND THEN, I get the next step in the quest, which is TO INTERRUPT THEM, which will led to Henry being raped. I refused to do it, so I failed the quest.
This is profoundly disgusting, imo. I know that I'm more sensible to sexual topics and depictions as a sex-repulsed asexual, but making the player participates in the rape of their own character? I do not believe a survivor would have a great time. This is atrocious, this is teaching young men that being intoxicated and accepting to have sex, or someone (a woman mostly) having sex with them is cool actually. You participated so it means you consented! This is very bad, I hate it.
And do not bring "historical accuracy", because that's not it. Earlier, the bandits threatened to rape Theresa, and that's historical accuracy, because soldiers and bandits did rape people when they destroyed villages. But making us participate in the main character being raped, showing us the rape taking place, having a quest that can only be accomplished by being raped, that's not historical accuracy, that's a fucking fetish about wanting to have women throwing themselves at you.
I already thought Batman: Arkham Knight was bad with Selina forcing herself (just kisses but still) on Bruce AFTER HE TOLD HER NO and on the enemies you fight when you play as her, but this is another level. Holy shit. Sorry, I believe men deserve better than media that tell them that they should be ok with being sexually assaulted, that they are lucky, that their consent doesn't matter.
