The money printer, obviously!

BRRRRRRRRRRR

Wizardry 8 spoiler:

Wizardry 8 has one quest, which is mandatory if you're going through blind, in which you have to consort with a demon to complete it. It also doesn't help that you have to have a male character consort with the female demon, unless you have no male characters in your party (in which case the game will let you choose a female character to consort with her).

Wizardry 8 also happens to have an item called the "Pickled Trynnie". (The Trynnies are a friendly sentient race that you encounter. At least this particular item is found in an area inhabited by the hostile Rapax.)

Canibalism, Pedophilia, Incest, death of a child

Oh, the ancestor of Nier: Automata.

Surprised how things sometimes emerge from this. Like how Dark Souls can trace back directly to a janky action RPG called King's Field.

Speaking of your explanation: Hideo Kojima has ideas about women. This dates as far back as his first games with a major narrative, such as Snatcher, Policenauts, and Metal Gear: Solid Snake.

Be it the ability to outright harass them or having them be the product of a tragic injury that'd make Nu Lara Croft blush, or both, Kojima is a horny bastard with odd ideas towards the opposite sex. Breathing though her skin because parasites, not just because you're unrepentant horndog on main.

Witcher 1.

Have you ever felt unfortunate, that every time you chose for Geralt to get lucky, you didn't?

What is the fun of reloading saved games, without this feature? :-)

Note: Themes are a matter of definition.

What would you call those scenes in cartoons or very old comics, where a character ends up in Blackface, or some other parody of aborigine culture? (IE: The depictions of Indigenous Americans in Disney's Peter Pan.)

Might and Magic 2:
* While some of the hirelings have good names, the name Big Bootay just feels a bit too juvenile.
* Some enemies have gendered physical immunity. Some enemies are immune to physical attacks from male characters, while others are immune to physical attacks from female characters. (The default party, being male dominated (especially if you don't count the sorcerer who is going to be casting spells), does poorly here, and the fact that the hirelings are male
dominated as well doesn't help, either.)

If I could figure out what you were talking about, I'd try to respond in a more meaningful manner. Please define.

I'm talking about Russian representation in the US media. All Russians in American games, movies, and tv series are either Russian mafia, Russian spies (mostly KGB agents), or look like some vodka-drinking bear. Or all of the above. Do I have to point out that most of them are villains?

Even Cosmo (saw linked video?) is some sort of menacing security service figure. And, as I've said, he is one of the few examples that can be considered positive. And considering, how things are going IRL, I don't expect depictions of Russians to improve anytime soon.

So, when people complain "we are only represented in the media as a stereotype" or "our identity group depiction in US fiction is negative", I always roll my eyes. My people have been depicted as antagonists all my life (especially in games), and I've learned to live with it. So all those "fighters for the human rights of characters in video games" should stop whining.

Tetris, in some of its iterations, has a decent representation of some aspects of Russian culture. While there are no characters (not counting the musicians on the NEStris ending screen), it is common for the games to contain renditions of Russian folk songs.

There was a time in the late 90s and early 00s where Russian-made media (music, cinema, books, games) was coming to the US and even getting some positive reception, and American-made media was moving to different villains (the three 00 Bond films, for example).

But then that stopped as sadly the situation became regressive again.

It is, sadly, an unfortunate trope/theme that repeats in too many games. They take the lazy path of the culturally pre-built villain instead of coming up with one. Though I can't deny that the NIS era - the dissolution of USSR and "what happens now?" - did make for some good storytelling. (Lord of War [movie] and the Leggy Starlitz short stories definitely being at the top of the list.)