The Dark Mistress was, in all other ways, a fairly standard unit in the Dungeon Keeper games who cer

The Dark Mistress was, in all other ways, a fairly standard unit in the Dungeon Keeper games who certain people, for certain reasons, decided really needed to become the focus of all marketing and large parts of the imagery Dungeon Keeper 2 onward,. by which I mean Dungeon Keeper 2 and the Dungeon Keepr mobile game.  The character is a fascinating case study in the myth of sex sells.Horny (that’s… that’s actually his name) got t appear as an extra in the promotion for his own game (in which he’s an apex unit)Now, since it took 15 years between Dungeon Keeper 2 and Dungeon Keeper mobile/online, you can probably guess that support for the game was not super remarkable - particularly given they spent so much time on graphics updates, hiring models to dress up as dominatrixes, etc and sold only about 61% of the previous title which used advertising like this:Now, we could put this down to there being a terrible misunderstanding about what the “fantasy genre” is commonly meant to understand - but more likely there as an over belief that now they could render enough polygons to render Dark Mistresses as cartoon babes, that would do the marketing for itself.The real absurdity is that the original game is leaned heavily into the idea that you get to play as an avatar of evil, destroying those pesky adventurers as you conquer the world.  The second game… seems to like pitch you, that guy but he gave up and decided to set up a fetish club instead (which honestly could have been an interesting premise in itself).Honestly it seems like it’d be awful awkward if someone just came across that strategy guide lying about… it’s about tactics and  strategy, I promise!As for the mobile game like… all I can say is good work making it look like every piece of shovelware that gets advertised on Instagram.- wincenworks -- source link

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