Ah, I see. That's my bad for misinterpreting you. In that case you're 100% right just from the breakdowns of the game I've personally seen. I get that the game is open to a huge amount of interpretation, but about half of the people I've watched try to break down the game completely missed or ignored concepts the game blatantly states to go off on rants about "capitalism le bad" or "Tucker Carlson le bad" (not a joke, someone included a segment shitting on Tucker Carlson for reporting on the tranny school shooter in their Cruelty Squad retrospective).
Ah, I see. That's my bad for misinterpreting you. In that case you're 100% right just from the breakdowns of the game I've personally seen. I get that the game is open to a huge amount of interpretation, but about half of the people I've watched try to break down the game completely missed or ignored concepts the game blatantly states to go off on rants about "capitalism le bad" or "Tucker Carlson le bad" (not a joke, someone included a segment shitting on Tucker Carlson for reporting on the tranny school shooter in their Cruelty Squad retrospective).
Tucker Carlson is a retard with a face that looks like he just discovered the ingredient list of a cinnabon, but yea, those takes are brain damaged.
And it's not capitalism per se that Consumersoft said he was slagging, but the end result of absolutely unfettered capitalism as religion. One should never get them mixed up.
You've obviously never had to deal with the two bitches they put in Kiwami 1. Both of them are completely insufferable. In any case, as the Yakuza game expert, I'd say that most of them vary from none to mild. The remasters have done some fuckery, namely the one of 3. The masseuse at the minigame is revealed to be a tranny, in the original translation Kiryu is dumbfounded but is still respectful enough, in the remaster he goes full YOU'RE SO HECKIN' VALID YOU'RE SO SALAD!!! They also took out the chain of sidequests where a crazy transvestite chases after Kiryu in an effort to rape him. The "I can't see myself being with a black guy" line was changed too from what I remember.
In any case, since the game series primarily deals with a pleasure district in Tokyo and its underworld (and whenever the game adds new locations they are usually also pleasure districts of its city) the thugs, hoes, gangsters, policemen, foreigners etc. are portrayed both positively and negatively. However, I would put Yakuza 7 into heavy, I am very aware of how controversial that statement is but the social themes are explored very heavy-handedly. The main social themes that the story tackles is basically illegal immigrants good, whores good, pimps good, foreign mafias good, people who don't want a demoralized society bad PLUS those chuds are backed by the heckin' evil mafia proving that fascism is capitalism in decay!
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Since I did the Yakuzi series (very shittily I may add) I may as well do it for the two spinoffs, Judgment and Lost Judgment.
Judgment - none, however in hindsight heavily chudpilled
Why? The story heavily centers on two things - government corruption and the corruption of the medical industry. I'll spoiler the next parts. At a certain point in the story a rival gang leader tells Yagami to investigate the death of the former vice director of the ADDC, a medical research facility, because he wants to see the ADDC scrapped, buy the land and turn it into an apartment complex for massive $$$$. The ADDC was seen as useless for a long time because it didn't see any success in its research, however after a breakthrough in its research of an anti-Alzheimer drug it secured more funding. Yagami discovers that the "breakthrough" is a sham, the drug kills every patient its tried on and all of the human guinea pigs had the drug injected against their will and their murders covered up. The head researcher, Shono, is a dork with a massive God complex. The game came out in 2018 btw.
Lost Judgment - none This one uses the theme of school bullying as a vehicle to ask whether unjust laws and injustice in general should be corrected slowly and progressively through government reform or quickly and extrajudiciously. Yagami and the main antagonist even have a debate about it and while Yagami wins two supporting characters do remark that neither of them is absolutely correct. You see, the main antagonist arranges for parents of children who were bullied in school to suicide to be able to murder their kids' bullies, Hostel-style. Though of course he waits for them to become adults because showing children being offed would really be crossing the line of edginess.
You've obviously never had to deal with the two bitches they put in Kiwami 1. Both of them are completely insufferable. In any case, as the Yakuza game expert, I'd say that most of them vary from none to mild. The remasters have done some fuckery, namely the one of 3. The masseuse at the minigame is revealed to be a tranny, in the original translation Kiryu is dumbfounded but is still respectful enough, in the remaster he goes full YOU'RE SO HECKIN' VALID YOU'RE SO SALAD!!! They also took out the chain of sidequests where a crazy transvestite chases after Kiryu in an effort to rape him. The "I can't see myself being with a black guy" line was changed too from what I remember.
I have played Kiwami, and I remember numerous annoying girls in numerous entries. If I'm recalling, you generally aren't meant to call them out for their behavior, at least not too strongly, or it negatively impacts the love meter. I do remember one of them flat out just saying she's a gold digger, but not much really changed with her at the end of her little story, if I recall. Also the black guy line is actually still in the Remaster.
However, I would put Yakuza 7 into heavy, I am very aware of how controversial that statement is but the social themes are explored very heavy-handedly. The main social themes that the story tackles is basically illegal immigrants good, whores good, pimps good, foreign mafias good, people who don't want a demoralized society bad PLUS those chuds are backed by the heckin' evil mafia proving that fascism is capitalism in decay!
I get where you're coming from but the whole point of Bleach Japan is that their all a bunch of NIMBY Antifa that are led by a criminal using the reactionary politics to get ahead rather than solve any problems. As for glorifying criminals that's what Yakuza always did.
It was, but the other way around. IIRC the original localization censored it to something like "I have standards!", and the remaster changed it back to the racism line.
It was, but the other way around. IIRC the original localization censored it to something like "I have standards!", and the remaster changed it back to the racism line.
No biggie. But while we're still talking about Yakuza...
Yakuza 5: Medium, with Haruka and Akiyama's part being Heavy and Shinada's None.
MIREI PARK. Nuff said. NO ONE sides with Korean Feminist Bitch until she dies, then it's all Akiyama and co. going "Oh she did nothing wrong, who cares there's a lot of people (and Kiryu's part) telling us how she was a bitch to them and ruined their lives for not fully bending the knee to her, we must make her 夢 come true!" And then Haruka has a retard moment at the end, so the 夢 is ruined, along with her life, the orphanage's and Kiryu's.
Shinada is just there, his chapter has nothing to do with KFB and that's why his part is the best.
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: Surprisingly None! Akame doesn't come out as a girlboss, and I know there's the annoying fat shituber as a hostess, but I never touch the cabaret clubs unless they force me to, and I never pick her. I don't mind Nishitani III either, especially when everyone finds him weird and offputting.
I actually redownloaded the whole game on my rinky dink Slav internet just to check this and yes, when you start a new game you get the usual "The characters and events in this game are TOTALLY 100% FICTIONAL AND NOT RELATED TO REAL LIFE IN ANY WAY HAHAHA IGNORE THE FACT THAT WE MAKE THE GAMES MIRROR WHAT HAPPENED IN KABUKICHO'S UNDERGROUND AROUND THE TIME THIS GAME WAS MADE HAHAHAHA" disclaimer and the "content warning: heckin' sexual assault, violence and bullying" at the bottom. I completely forgot it existed because it doesn't show up in the intro when you boot up the game so I'd argue it just bumps it up to mild.
No biggie. But while we're still talking about Yakuza...
Yakuza 5: Medium, with Haruka and Akiyama's part being Heavy and Shinada's None.
MIREI PARK. Nuff said. NO ONE sides with Korean Feminist Bitch until she dies, then it's all Akiyama and co. going "Oh she did nothing wrong, who cares there's a lot of people (and Kiryu's part) telling us how she was a bitch to them and ruined their lives for not fully bending the knee to her, we must make her 夢 come true!" And then Haruka has a retard moment at the end, so the 夢 is ruined, along with her life, the orphanage's and Kiryu's.
Shinada is just there, his chapter has nothing to do with KFB and that's why his part is the best.
I mean is that really woke? It just seems like shit writing. Haha, I know, I repeat myself, but you get what I mean. It's not like Park was being sided with from the narrative and shilled in-universe because she's a woman or anything like that.
I mean is that really woke? It just seems like shit writing. Haha, I know, I repeat myself, but you get what I mean. It's not like Park was being sided with from the narrative and shilled in-universe because she's a woman or anything like that.
But they do... After she dies they all go talking about how strong she was and how hard she worked for her 夢 and how much she sacrificed and she didn't deserve to be killed and WE NEED TO HONOR HER 夢. Because just before she died she played mom with Haruka (and tells her how she ruined her marriage and made herself sterile by having an abortion without telling her husband, ALL FOR THE 夢), that makes the whole things from before not matter! We WILL make a complete 180 about her infamy! Also, 夢.
But they do... After she dies they all go talking about how strong she was and how hard she worked for her 夢 and how much she sacrificed and she didn't deserve to be killed and WE NEED TO HONOR HER 夢. Because just before she died she played mom with Haruka (and tells her how she ruined her marriage and made herself sterile by having an abortion without telling her husband, ALL FOR THE 夢), that makes the whole things from before not matter! We WILL make a complete 180 about her infamy! Also, 夢.
Does it really need to be explicitly saying "oh what a strong and independent woman who don't need no man"? If it gives the vibes, I think it still counts, especially when one of the writers (Yokoyama) is a proud male feminist.
But if you insist in wanting something that's more explicit, the remaster censored an extra costume for Saejima because it was based on an Imperial Japan soldier uniform, and swapped into a cop suit.
Another update to the list. I saw this post and I'm considering whether or not to make another list for fiction books, If I do, I'm imposing a couple more rules for the sake of not bloating the list:
No books that advertise or focus on the topic of real-world racism against minorities (meaning books like The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas are disqualified unless there's more to it).
No books that advertise or focus on LGBT stuff like romance novels (meaning books like Thousand Autumns by Meng Xi Shi are disqualified unless there's more to it).
Quick question; how far back should we look for woke games? I was planning on doing a review on Night in the Woods (2017), but it's not exactly a recent or popular game these days, so...? Otherwise, I've got a review for Remnant 2 (2023) in the works.
Has anybody having thoughts about Mortal Kombat 1’s woke scale? I might want to sum a long list, but if there is anybody know fuck plays the game briefly, I appreciate your thoughts and hint where they are mega woke.
Has anybody having thoughts about Mortal Kombat 1’s woke scale? I might want to sum a long list, but if there is anybody know fuck plays the game briefly, I appreciate your thoughts and hint where they are mega woke.
Both MK11 & MK1 can have a borderline thesis on their wokeness, & the lengths WB & NRS went to push their wokeshit. MKX (which I honestly kinda like) has some too.
I might have a write-up, but it's so disjointed that I have to tard-wrangle through it to make it coherent.
I actually redownloaded the whole game on my rinky dink Slav internet just to check this and yes, when you start a new game you get the usual "The characters and events in this game are TOTALLY 100% FICTIONAL AND NOT RELATED TO REAL LIFE IN ANY WAY HAHAHA IGNORE THE FACT THAT WE MAKE THE GAMES MIRROR WHAT HAPPENED IN KABUKICHO'S UNDERGROUND AROUND THE TIME THIS GAME WAS MADE HAHAHAHA" disclaimer and the "content warning: heckin' sexual assault, violence and bullying" at the bottom. I completely forgot it existed because it doesn't show up in the intro when you boot up the game so I'd argue it just bumps it up to mild.
Content warning aside, the fiction disclaimer is pretty common (the number of times I've seen 「このドラマはフィクションです」...) as it usually lowers the chance of an unhappy sperg successfully filing a lawsuit against the creators for allegedly rehashing an event that has happened in real life. With Johnny's & Associates (Takuya Kimura's talent agency) being extremely protective of Kimura's image to the point of Lost Judgment almost not making it on Steam ( Article, pg. 2 Archive ), I'm not surprised they did it so prominently.
Content warning aside, the fiction disclaimer is pretty common (the number of times I've seen 「このドラマはフィクションです」...) as it usually lowers the chance of an unhappy sperg successfully filing a lawsuit against the creators for allegedly rehashing an event that has happened in real life. With Johnny's & Associates (Takuya Kimura's talent agency) being extremely protective of Kimura's image to the point of Lost Judgment almost not making it on Steam ( Article, pg. 2 Archive ), I'm not surprised they did it so prominently.
I have no problems with the "This is a piece of fiction" disclaimer, just wanna let people know that a lot of what happens to Kamurocho in the game is eerily similar to what happens in Kabukicho's criminal underbelly in real life.
I'd call it mild since you can torture the miserable pricks by doing things in your colony they don't like. Put their bed in the polluted water reservoir so their feet are always soggy and their lungs rot, or next to the coal generator so they can "enjoy" the CO2 and endless noise and heat. It adds an extra challenge to keep your colony alive in the midst of whatever shitshow your "victim" creates because of the high stress you force upon them.
That's actually been a quiet standard of mine in terms of deciding whether a game is truly "woke" or not, even when it adds woke elements. If they add that shit but allow it to cause (or allow for) negative effects, it's not nearly as bad as when they force an invincible Marty Sue. If I can fuck with a woke character to my satisfaction, I'm far more forgiving about their presence.
Dwarf Fortress' dev infamously added fag and tranny dwarves to the game and banned/scolded people on the forums for complaining about it or posting ways to get rid of it, but being DF means the tried and true response to unwanted dev changes is to either hack the game files or fuck with the game's mechanics (or both) to alleviate the problem (it's a legit problem because you need breeders in DF, and fags/trannies don't breed, which is realistic, but a pain in the ass in-game). That lead directly to players just quietly learning to construct of death rooms where tranny dwarves can be trapped so they can die without sending the colony into a tantrum spiral. That's fun!
This is only half true for the tranny thing. They're announced, but that was 5+ years ago and still no sign of them. It may come eventually, but it's still off in the distance for now.
Played three rather enjoyable Indie games recently, so I'll list them up.
First, Heads will Roll: Reforged (Yes, it's technically a rerelease, but it's a direct upgrade over the original) by 1917 Studios
Gets a None*
It's basically just a fuller and more expanded upon version of A Legionary's Life by a different dev. There's significantly more visual elements, much more robust character customization and creation, and way more gear. It's also pretty historical (up to a point, but I'll not spoil here). The * is that while it's not woke (there's a warrior lady, but her actions are mostly offscreen, and she's not a "girlboss" by any means), the game is a bit coomery. There's 7 women you get interact with, and you can get shots of them nude or in various states of undress if you get your relations with them high enough. It's not too big a deal and the game isn't really about that, but if you're super anti-coomer, you may find that offputting.
Storyteller by Daniel Benmergui
Is Mild/Moderate depending on preferences.
Puzzle game where you have to combine story elements and characters to meet the criteria of the story you're trying to tell. The only real "woke" element is that most characters can be paired up for romantic interactions regardless of gender. It's super chaste and there's not really much dwelling on the romantic elements, and there's actually two characters who are exclusively heterosexual, but at the same time, at least a few of the puzzles require you to have a gay interaction in order to complete them successfully. The game never really remarks or dwells on it, mind you, but it is there.
Slay the Princess by Black Tabby Games
Through some black fucking magic, this is somehow a None.
Don't get me wrong, the devs are woke, based on their other big project and the whole "pet parent" vibe pretty much everyone involved in this gives off, but I really struggled to find anything woke in this one. The closest I can think of is a disparaging remark about monarchies, but that's not only not entirely wrong, it's coming from a character you aren't meant to trust in any capacity. There's a somewhat faggy content warning at the start too, but the actual text of it isn't ingame.
I can't say more without spoiling the whole game, but I held off on this based on the store page's "quirky" writing style and the general vibe of the promo material, and that was a mistake on my part, because I really enjoyed this. Appearances can indeed be deceiving.
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