KF Guide to Woke Games

[Premium Dog Food]

Anyone take a look at The Long Dark?

Played it way back before the episodic story mode. Game was great. Then it came out to consoles with a massive UI downgrade and the director or community manager Ralph something became a lolcow like figure for a while, especially since the episodic story mode started. Not sure he still works at the studio.
There is nothing woke in the survival mode, iirc. At least there wasn't. Avoid story mode, it's bad, terrible, plagued by questionable design choices and abysmal writing. It took them a decade and the final product is terrible.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Played it way back before the episodic story mode. Game was great. Then it came out to consoles with a massive UI downgrade and the director or community manager Ralph something became a lolcow like figure for a while, especially since the episodic story mode started. Not sure he still works at the studio.
There is nothing woke in the survival mode, iirc. At least there wasn't. Avoid story mode, it's bad, terrible, plagued by questionable design choices and abysmal writing. It took them a decade and the final product is terrible.

Still haven't taken a proper look at the final part of Wintermute; I would like to, I just haven't.

 

[Lone Star]

So your argument is that blatantly gendered characters being referred to as they/them, which Pokémon has never done before, is only Mild?

If any of the they/thems is a major character, it falls under the "dialogue heavily informed with wokeness" clause, which is Heavy.

I guess my logic just goes that it isn't particularly intrusive. It's something that you won't be seeing or dealing with for 95% of the gameplay and aside from the they/them bullshit, there's absolutely nothing else.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

To be fair, there are a lot of agender pokemon in the game since they introduced genders (ignoring the Nidoran lines). It could be charitably seen as the devs simply leaning into that.
But the Tinkatink line is female. 100% female. So yeah, that's pretty woke and lame of the devs to make it a They/them rather than gendering all of the pokemon correctly according to established canon from other games.

Let's not say "devs" for what's obviously on the localization team. The Japanese dialogue looks normal from what I can tell. It's on the English localizes for using "them" on everything just because the game doesn't explicitly point out what gender everyone is.

 

[PetiteFeet]

Well, could it just be a fuckup? The flag bearing retards were cheering on some male-only psychic evolution of that porn pokemon as being trans, in an obvious attempt to set the narrative and put pressure on Nintendo not to change it. Could they just have fucked a lot of shit up, or is it obviously wokeshit?

I wouldn't take anything that comes out of Nintendo of America as good faith. This is 100% on purpose and wokeshit.

Let's not say "devs" for what's obviously on the localization team.

Fair, you have a good point. It's the lolcowlizers who did this deliberately. It is wokeshit.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Well, could it just be a fuckup?

Never assume incompetence when it comes to potentially woke elements. It's always malice.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Got 2 games for you guys:

Ad Infinitum: Medium/Heavy - The game is about a WW1 German soldier going through a psychotic episode, essentially; reliving traumas from both the war and his royally screwed-up family, all while hiding from monsters. The game doesn't have any major "woke" elements until the 3rd Act, where it suddenly starts talking out of nowhere about how blacks were used in experiments and kept in zoos like animals, complete with voiceovers from the protagonist's grandfather scorning and mocking them. Meanwhile, the protagonist's brother is revealed to be gay and was subsequently locked in the attic and neglected for it - the best ending has the family all reconciling with each other, and the nationalistic father admitting that he was "wrong" about everything.

Elden Ring: Nightreign: None/Mild - You play as one of 8 (10 total with the DLC) different characters fighting against an eldritch darkness invading the land. Each character has their own unique personality and backstory, and none of them come across as overtly faggy; if anything, the entire story is shockingly based despite being rather minimalistic, and the characters all have depth to them. There's two black characters, those being the Recluse and Ironeye, and a technical "strong female" with the Undertaker, but all three of them have a solid character arc and reasons behind their actions and history; if anything, their stories go directly against woke ideas in some cases. Surprising focus on family and duty among the cast, as well.

I can post character spoilers for Nightreign, if you guys want; was trying to avoid spoilers just in case.

 

[Transbian Fluffer]

Played it way back before the episodic story mode. Game was great. Then it came out to consoles with a massive UI downgrade and the director or community manager Ralph something became a lolcow like figure for a while, especially since the episodic story mode started. Not sure he still works at the studio.
There is nothing woke in the survival mode, iirc. At least there wasn't. Avoid story mode, it's bad, terrible, plagued by questionable design choices and abysmal writing. It took them a decade and the final product is terrible.

Ive finished episode 5 and unsurprisingly there are more woke elements now than at the start of wintermute. The professor is a ugly chinese/native lesbian-looking woman who explains to us how hard it was for her being a woman and not even a white one. Will's companion is a black girlboss type and all the prisoners are now white evil men. Its also notable how Will is made weaker now than at the start of Wintermute.

Wintermute is not worth it,but i'll give them credit for Survival mode. No woke stuff there and its a great challenge to survive in the canadian wilderness.

 

[Dorothy]

Why is pocketpair adamant about type a and b?

 

[PetiteFeet]

Why is pocketpair adamant about type a and b?

western audience retardation, I assume. I would not be surprised if other languages it's male/female.

 

[Dorothy]

western audience retardation, I assume. I would not be surprised if other languages it's male/female.

We know in the actual files its male snd female.

 

[LazyLizard]

The game doesn't have any major "woke" elements until the 3rd Act

classic, they want to be woke and spread "the message" but also want to make money so they hide the woke shit until the several hours in so you can't refund it and hopefully enough people have bought it where they can make as much money as possible before it all crashes and burns.

 

[Repeat Edge Pixels]

A Solitaire Mystery: Mild
A collection of solitaire games with pixel graphics and a chiptune soundtrack.
The only mild bit of "wokeness" is found in the "Murder Mystery" solitaire. In that game, each face card is assigned a random noble title and silly name; these can be male ("His Majesty"), female ("Her Majesty")... or neuter ("Their Majesty").

 

[StacticShock]

classic, they want to be woke and spread "the message" but also want to make money so they hide the woke shit until the several hours in so you can't refund it and hopefully enough people have bought it where they can make as much money as possible before it all crashes and burns.

we call it bait and switch my lizza.

 

[Repeat Edge Pixels]

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: None
A Japanese mystery game. A bunch of teen geniuses are trapped in a school and forced into a killing game. Anime tropes ensue.
There's only one thing which is sort-of "woke"-adjacent, and it's in fact more anti-woke: (Plot spoilers)
One of the characters initially seems to be a girl, but eventually is revealed to be a femboy pretending to be a girl.
This is not a trans thing, though; the game in fact explicitly states that the femboy wears a skirt because he is ashamed of how weak he is, and secretly dreams of becoming stronger. (Besides, it's clear that he isn't in the game for "trans representation", but simply to have a cool twist in the mystery.)
Naturally, trans fans of Danganronpa for the most part aren't happy with how the femboy is depicted.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: None
A bunch of teen geniuses are trapped and forced into a killing game. Again.
There is no "woke" content here, unless you consider typical anime jokes about yaoi/yuri to fall under that category. Also (plot spoiler), one of the female characters is eventually all but implied to be in love with a female villain from the first game - but it's also clear that it's because she is utterly insane and mindbroken.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Mild
A bunch of teen geniuses are trapped and forced into a killing game. Funny how that keeps happening.
Content which might be considered "woke":

• The official English translation mistranslates two lines, just to insert jabs at Donald Trump.
• LGBT themes:
  • There's a hidden option to have your character go to a "love hotel". There, you'll have a romantic or sorta-romantic scene with another of the characters - ranging from basically innocent friendshipping, to all-but-implied offscreen sex. You don't get to choose your partner; the other character is chosen randomly from among all the males and females.

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: Mild
A Japanese detective game from Kazutaka Kodaka (author of Danganronpa), sharing Danganronpa's colorful visual style.
Here are things which might be considered "woke":

• One of the major characters, Halara, has "no specified gender".
  • That said, it's not a "non-binary" thing; the protagonist's thoughts make it clear that he simply doesn't know if Halara's male or female, and finds it too awkward to ask. (I think Kodaka also said that he made Halara androgynous simply to make the character more mysterious, and not as a political statement. But this is just hearsay on my part.)
  • There's also a DLC side-story featuring Halara. I haven't played it so I can't vouch for its content.
• LGBT themes: Very minor.
  • In an optional mission, a female teacher asks you to find out who is stalking her. It turns out, her stalker is another female teacher, who was under the impression that the other teacher had a crush on her, and, apparently, reciprocated.
  • In another optional mission, a man confesses to you that he has fallen for one of your male friends, and asks you what gift he should buy for him. This never goes anywhere.

 

[Gentle Wind]

Elden Ring: Nightreign: None/Mild - You play as one of 8 (10 total with the DLC) different characters fighting against an eldritch darkness invading the land. Each character has their own unique personality and backstory, and none of them come across as overtly faggy; if anything, the entire story is shockingly based despite being rather minimalistic, and the characters all have depth to them. There's two black characters, those being the Recluse and Ironeye, and a technical "strong female" with the Undertaker, but all three of them have a solid character arc and reasons behind their actions and history; if anything, their stories go directly against woke ideas in some cases. Surprising focus on family and duty among the cast, as well.

Executor is also black. There is a gap near the bottom of his helm which exposes some of the lower half of his face, his skin being black. A shame, really. He's probably the most fun to play along with Scholar, but he's been given the AC Shadows treatment.

 

[Two Dollars]

So your argument is that blatantly gendered characters being referred to as they/them, which Pokémon has never done before, is only Mild?

If any of the they/thems is a major character, it falls under the "dialogue heavily informed with wokeness" clause, which is Heavy.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think any game that pushes transgenderism while also mainly promoting itself to children should get an automatic Heavy rating. Medium at the absolute least if it’s just vague pronouns and nothing else.

 

[brokenexuberance]

I'm also getting sick of seeing the no gender, just mix and match everything kind of character creator. It's incoherent and I struggle to immerse myself in the game. But more to your point it feels like a way to avoid any transgender specific language while still pushing the same ideas. It's a similar thing with race. There are a bunch of distinct races... But they're all everywhere and interbreeding and have always been everywhere... It's straight up not how any of this works.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Ive finished episode 5 and unsurprisingly there are more woke elements now than at the start of wintermute. The professor is a ugly chinese/native lesbian-looking woman who explains to us how hard it was for her being a woman and not even a white one. Will's companion is a black girlboss type and all the prisoners are now white evil men. Its also notable how Will is made weaker now than at the start of Wintermute.

...I'd complain about getting spoiled on Episode 5, but in this case, I appreciate the heads up. Fucking hell...

classic, they want to be woke and spread "the message" but also want to make money so they hide the woke shit until the several hours in so you can't refund it and hopefully enough people have bought it where they can make as much money as possible before it all crashes and burns.

Most of the wokeshit comes right the fuck out of nowhere, as well. While the father having second thoughts was indicated and built up throughout Act 2, the brother being gay wasn't really hinted at beforehand, and the whole "blacks are mistreated" angle doesn't have ANY prior connection to anything in the plot. It feels forced at best, outright plot-breaking at worse; the fagshit at least keeps the plot going, but the pacing grinds to a complete halt whenever the black crap pops up.

Executor is also black. There is a gap near the bottom of his helm which exposes some of the lower half of his face, his skin being black. A shame, really. He's probably the most fun to play along with Scholar, but he's been given the AC Shadows treatment.
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Ah, forgot about him; to be fair, it's never actually specified what, exactly, is the story with him. There's some implications that his skin tone might have some connection to his prior career as a Crucible Knight, or it might have something to do with his Remembrance quest. It's confirmed that he's from The Land of Reeds (ER's version of Japan), so he might be one of the in-universe equivalent of the Ainu, but...

At the very least, his being black isn't really forced or commented on non-stop like other examples, and it's easy to ignore/miss with other skins.

 

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Why is pocketpair adamant about type a and b?

Japan lags behind the west in this shit and someone (probably some Japanese equivalent to Sweet Baby Inc) is telling them they HAVE to use Type A or B because it's offensive to Americans to use the terms Male and Female.

The guy who made Dragon Quest was making fun of the whole situation with Akira Toriyama's editor from Shonen Jump at TGS a few years back, Square Enix went fucking thermonuclear on that entire stream but if you look on Twitter you can find it. Last year they did a huge purge of a lot of the wokecucks like the pink haired lunatic that fatally stabbed FF14 with the latest expansion or the Japanese head of Localization who was Japanese American and bragged about having a diverse global team, so the pendulum might be turning over there.