I want to play a soulslike where the horny undercurrent of the bosses’ elaborate instant kill attacks gets less and less plausibly deniable as the game goes on. Like, in the opening hours there might be a boss who turns you to stone with lurid panning closeups of your character’s expression of frozen horror or whatever, and then by the 50% mark you’re running into fights with shit like a thirty-second cutscene where the boss inflates you big and round. It’s critical that it never actually tips over into outright porn, so that I can play dumb and act like the people who’ve picked up on the horny vibe are reading too much into it.
The best thing about this post is all the folks in the notes who clearly think that deniably fetishy instant kill animations are something I’m proposing should be added to soulslikes, rather than something that’s already broadly present in the genre.
