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Final Fantasy XVI Dev Has A Terrible Answer For Why The Game Is So White​

Naoki Yoshida feels that racial diversity would be a violation of 'narrative boundaries'​

By Sisi Jiang Posted on 11/04/2022 3:50PM (Note: This is the same Sisi Jiang that compare the Pelosi attack to GamerGate)



Two weeks ago, Square Enix released a new story trailer for its upcoming RPG, Final Fantasy XVI. There’s just one noticeable problem—there doesn’t seem to be a single non-white character in it. So IGN asked producer Naoki Yoshida about whether or not the game would feature any Black people or other people of color. Unfortunately, his response made me go “Yikes” in real life.

Yoshida explained that the fantasy world of Valisthea was based on medieval Europe, and they wanted to limit the world culturally and geographically. “Valisthea was never going to realistically be as diverse as say a modern-day Earth…or even Final Fantasy XIV,” he said, as if he was being asked to incorporate every race on the entire planet. “Ultimately, we felt that while incorporating ethnic diversity into Valisthea was important, an over-incorporation into this single corner of a much larger world could end up causing a violation of those narrative boundaries we originally set for ourselves.”

Which begs the question: Why did they enforce a “whites-only” boundary in the first place?

After acknowledging that the real world is more diverse than Valisthea, he continued, “The story we are telling is fantasy, yes, but it is also rooted in reality.” Which is it, Yoshida? You can’t say that your fictional world isn’t bound to reality, and then use reality to explain why Black people can’t exist in Valisthea. Pick a struggle and stick with it, please.

What’s really frustrating about all of this is that Black and brown people have always existed in medieval Europe. If the creative leadership had done more research or checked their biases, then they might have noticed that Black people have been living in Britain for two thousand years. Or that some Black Europeans were canonized in the Holy Roman Empire. Or realized that Iberia was under Islamic rule for approximately 500 years. Instead of a realistic imagining of medieval Europe, we got FFXVI instead.

I emailed Square Enix to ask how it decided on whether or not a story element violated the developers’ “narrative boundaries,” and I’ll let you know once I’ve gotten a response.

I just rewatched the latest trailer, the one embedded above, and saw a giant winged lady throw ice shards. Apparently that’s not too over-the-top for fantasy realism, but bringing in real people from different races is a step too far. Localization director Michael-Christopher Koji Fox told IGN that the game drew inspiration from Game of Thrones. But even GoT had Black side characters (albeit represented very poorly). FFXVI might be worse about representation than one of the most white-bread shows on prestige television.

So why did the developers decide to include only white characters in the trailer? Yoshida has an answer that sounds entirely like a non-answer. “It can be challenging to assign distinctive ethnicities to either antagonist or protagonist without triggering audience preconceptions, inviting unwarranted speculation, and ultimately stoking flames of controversy,” he told IGN.

I believe that the developers can overcome that challenge without blowing up the internet. If the AAA blockbuster God of War: Ragnarök can feature a Black Angrboda as a major character in its Norse mythology, then a totally made-up world can do the same. Especially if the developers are looking to make Final Fantasy into a modern franchise that feels fresh to newcomers to the series.

These new quotes make me feel very cynical about Yoshida’s comments from a previous interview. In August, he said that he wanted to revitalize the Final Fantasy series, which had become mired in its own longstanding tradition. “In terms of whether Final Fantasy is successfully adapting to industry trends, I believe the series is currently struggling,” he said in the interview with Inverse. You know what doesn’t help with trying to make Final Fantasy not feel like it’s over 30 years old? Giving fans an all-white cast that runs counter to both industry standards and actual history.

For all that Yoshida is lauded for being the man who saved the Final Fantasy franchise, his creativity is also limited by a genre that has never been fair to Black and brown fans around the world. FFXVI may be the most “mature” game in the series, but its outlook on human history is a step backward for modern JRPGs.


Bonus rages from Sisi Jiang herself:



And from @Well Intentioned there's other links related to the article that includes:

The IGN article: https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-16-square-enix-interview-lore

ResetERA retards malding and banning over this. Hypocritically ResetERA still play his Final Fantasy XIV MMO game, ERPing as naked children: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...s-in-ffxvi-leaves-a-lot-to-be-desired.651099/

Twitter diversity nutjobs of the they/thems sperging over Yoshi-P : https://twitter.com/lotusthewolf/status/1588584930388283392

 

[OvercookedBacon]

I don't know what this bint is on about. I saw plenty of Japanese people in that trailer.

Anyone who's not black is somehow white-equivalent to these "people".
(edit) Especially if they go against what they're told is good for them by the usual suspects.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

They cannot do anything but back up Yoshi-P.

For those not in the know - Yoshi-P basically saved SQENX from financial insolvency - the entire company - by taking the reins of one of their most expensive failed projects (FFXIV) and turning it into their most successful project inside of ~3 years. He's probably the second or third most powerful and important person in the entire company currently and outside of FFXIV, his other project FFXVI (the one that's all white) is the only SQENX project that's due to release soon that has any kind of hype around it and will be their only AAA release for a while.

It cannot be overstated how basically untouchable Yoshi-P is over at SQENX - if they fuck with him or either of his projects the company will near instantly lose all credibility from their fans and will basically be forced to close up shop.

Interesting expansion of the normal slogan.

They say get woke go broke, but it seems going broke even without going woke first can immunize you to the woke.

 

[Psyduck]

Dog, lets be real here, no FF character looks Asian at all, hell, i'd argue that most anime characters with their big round eyes, caucasian skin and hair colored anything other than black, look white

the dark skinned ones are literally skin swaps of characters with those same caucasian features too, and they wont look african unless you can somehow make bulbous noses, big lips and smaller skulls mesh with the simplicity of the average anime style

 

[Ser Prize]

Well there are some dark skin ones like so

If black people were like anime black people I probably wouldn't be racist.

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

Tiananmen Square: A new series by Netflix. Starring: an all-black cast.

Netflix presents: HE-MAN. The story of an angry lesbian and her black girlfriend.

 

[Ser Prize]

Pretty sure that’s due to to rape statistics from around the US Naval base in Okinawa.

I remember during the BLM whining in 2020, there were a bunch of half-black, half-Japanese people whining about how nobody in Japan was supporting their BLM protests… And just about every last one of them was a kid who had a Japanese mother and a black father who left.

It's absolutely horrifying when you find out how common US niggers raping Okinawan ladies is. Fucking animals.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

The Final Fantasy XIV team has been caught engaging in racism. The XIV character, Y'sholta used to be completely dark head-to-toe. Until the Shadowbringers expansion, she was always dark skinned. She has steadily lost her color overtime and the autistic coomer playerbase noticed immediately.


Then suddenly dev art now has her light-skinned and pale. The excuses from the dev team have been "she's ill" (ok fair enough) but also "she has spent a lot of time indoors and lost her tan".


Ok so tans fade within days, so why is it they are now in Endwalker expansion and Y'shtola is still white? Why is Y'shtola also depicted as lightskinned in merch? They didn't like having a dark skinned catgirl waifu be the "representative" protagonist for XIV.

It's simple. The Japanese don't like niggers. Dark skin is just a fetish for degenerates. Japanese women with light skin are valued more than those without. The Asian cosmetics industry is the likely cause, but this culture of light skin being "ideal beauty" spans hundreds to thousands of years.

What's really fucking gay is that the XIV team is trying to pretend they're not racist. "oohh noo a-me-ri-kan, we isu notu waisis, she jus no havu tanu" They don't want niggers. Simple as.

 

[Snekposter]

I hope this blows up, i hope journos make it known that FF16 is "that racist, white supremacist game" that you should stay away from if youre good folx, and then i fucking hope the game surpasses sales expectations.

It's Kingdom Come all over again, but this time with a major franchise

Yeah, and Vavra wound up laughing all the way to the bank.

I still want my sequel, dammit. Surely nothing bad can happen with Hans and Henry off on a road trip to Prague with no supervision.

 

[Psyduck]

The Final Fantasy XIV team has been caught engaging in racism. The XIV character, Y'sholta used to be completely dark head-to-toe. Until the Shadowbringers expansion, she was always dark skinned. She has steadily lost her color overtime and the autistic coomer playerbase noticed immediately.

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Then suddenly dev art now has her light-skinned and pale. The excuses from the dev team have been "she's ill" (ok fair enough) but also "she has spent a lot of time indoors and lost her tan".

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Ok so tans fade within days, so why is it they are now in Endwalker expansion and Y'shtola is still white? Why is Y'shtola also depicted as lightskinned in merch? They didn't like having a dark skinned catgirl waifu be the "representative" protagonist for XIV.

It's simple. The Japanese don't like niggers. Dark skin is just a fetish for degenerates. Japanese women with light skin are valued more than those without. The Asian cosmetics industry is the likely cause, but this culture of light skin being "ideal beauty" spans hundreds to thousands of years.

What's really fucking gay is that the XIV team is trying to pretend they're not racist. "oohh noo a-me-ri-kan, we isu notu waisis, she jus no havu tanu" They don't want niggers. Simple as.

Looks almost exactly the same to me

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Dog, lets be real here, no FF character looks Asian at all, hell, i'd argue that most anime characters with their big round eyes, caucasian skin and hair colored anything other than black, look white

the dark skinned ones are literally skin swaps of characters with those same caucasian features too, and they wont look african unless you can somehow make bulbous noses, big lips and smaller skulls mesh with the simplicity of the average anime style

Even if the characters aren't "asian", they are still modeled after asians. Tidus in particular was literally modeled after an asian male "supermodel". These motherfuckers are chinky as fuck. Whooda thunk asians would make a game with asians?

Spoiler: more examples

The Black character Barret actually looks like a black man so they CAN make other races they just choose not to in most situations.


advent children movie


final fantasy vii remake

Looks almost exactly the same to me

Those are the best examples I could find unfortunately because in order to provide better examples I would have to subscribe to a game filled with trannies and other mentally ill retards.

 

[Haramburger]

I just rewatched the latest trailer, the one embedded above, and saw a giant winged lady throw ice shards. Apparently that’s not too over-the-top for fantasy realism, but bringing in real people from different races is a step too far.

This quote goes both ways, journoscum. Just how broke-brained do you have to be to see a winged lady throwing ice shards and the first thing you say to yourself is "why ain't she a nigga tho?"

 

[Ita Mori]

Fucking rad.

 

[Judex Meus]

It's absolutely horrifying when you find out how common US niggers raping Okinawan ladies is. Fucking animals.

I was curious about this, so I did some cursory research.

This is the wiki page on the 1995 Okinawa Rape Incident. Turns out in this case, it wasn't a woman - it was a 12 year-old girl. Disgusting.

They beat her, duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, and bound her hands. Gill and Harp then raped her (...)

Interestingly, there's this difference between the actual page and the preview (sorry for the shitty phonefag edits):




Then there's this article on recently-disclosed assaults between 2019-2021:

One evening in March 2017, a U.S. sailor walked through the parking lot of a shopping mall in Kitanakagusuku Village, Okinawa, Japan, exposing himself to female customers. The area was crowded with cars and pedestrians, and for half an hour, the 23-year-old American masturbated in front of women and approached drivers stopped at traffic lights.

His race wasn't mentioned in this one, however.

 

[Ser Prize]

The Final Fantasy XIV team has been caught engaging in racism. The XIV character, Y'sholta used to be completely dark head-to-toe. Until the Shadowbringers expansion, she was always dark skinned. She has steadily lost her color overtime and the autistic coomer playerbase noticed immediately.

View attachment 3827661
Then suddenly dev art now has her light-skinned and pale. The excuses from the dev team have been "she's ill" (ok fair enough) but also "she has spent a lot of time indoors and lost her tan".

View attachment 3827667
Ok so tans fade within days, so why is it they are now in Endwalker expansion and Y'shtola is still white? Why is Y'shtola also depicted as lightskinned in merch? They didn't like having a dark skinned catgirl waifu be the "representative" protagonist for XIV.

It's simple. The Japanese don't like niggers. Dark skin is just a fetish for degenerates. Japanese women with light skin are valued more than those without. The Asian cosmetics industry is the likely cause, but this culture of light skin being "ideal beauty" spans hundreds to thousands of years.

What's really fucking gay is that the XIV team is trying to pretend they're not racist. "oohh noo a-me-ri-kan, we isu notu waisis, she jus no havu tanu" They don't want niggers. Simple as.

are you a parody account

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

From the trailer this might be the first non-remake FF game worth playing in ages.

Have to hope my 3060 is up the task 8 months from now.

 

[Psyduck]

Even if the characters aren't "asian", they are still modeled after asians. Tidus in particular was literally modeled after an asian male "supermodel". These motherfuckers are chinky as fuck. Whooda thunk asians would make a game with asians?

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Spoiler: more examples

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The Black character Barret actually looks like a black man so they CAN make other races they just choose not to in most situations.

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advent children movie

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final fantasy vii remake


Those are the best examples I could find unfortunately because in order to provide better examples I would have to subscribe to a game filled with trannies and other mentally ill retards.

Ill give you that, the more realistic the characters are depicted the more they'd want to accentuate the asian in them, still though, im talking about the "animeish" part of the art style, the parts you actually look at the most throughout the game via character models or text windows





(am retard and cant spoiler on phone sowwie)

 

[Looney Troons]

FFXIV already caters to an already degenerate fanbase. I question how many people actually play the game versus those who use it as the gay tranny “poc” weirdo virtual dollhouse that it has become. Go play that game.

His game, his choice. If he wants to leave out dark-skinned characters, whatever. What is actually the big deal about this?

 

[Squid Diddler]

Interesting, if I didn't loathe FF and most JRPGs I'd think about purchasing this.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Looks almost exactly the same to me

They'll complain anyway and say shit like "light" supremacy or something.

Interesting, if I didn't loathe FF and most JRPGs I'd think about purchasing this.

Wait for the Let's Plays or Spoony wannabe streamers

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Ok so tans fade within days, so why is it they are now in Endwalker expansion and Y'shtola is still white? Why is Y'shtola also depicted as lightskinned in merch? They didn't like having a dark skinned catgirl waifu be the "representative" protagonist for XIV.

You should see Japan's fandom of Y'shtola, like they worship the mommy catgirl.