His reply is so swift that I can barely even get the word 'yes' out of my mouth: 'That's what we wanted. That scene did in fact make me uncomfortable. Regardless of the intentions in constructing the scene, the imagery is ghastly.
It's a scene that forcibly reminds me of the boxart from RapeLay, down to the woman protecting her child and the disembodied arms (your arms) reaching out from the camera. Sexualized imagery is nothing new in vampire fiction, but this scene is kind of stunning for how blatant it is with its allusions to rape. He kills the father outright, then grabs the mother and sinks his fangs into her neck, draining her life energy to restore his. I'm sitting in a roundtable interview with a handful of journalists after having just spent more than an hour playing Lords of Shadow 2, the scene in question being one in which a withered Dracula stumbled toward a family with his arms outstretched, the camera abruptly switching to a first-person perspective. 'Did you feel uncomfortable playing that scene?' Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 producer Dave Cox asks me.
