These people don't know history beyond what they've been spoonfed in public schools by a teacher's union or a liberal arts college. The world is a big fucked up place, and literally every single country to ever exist has a very dark history based on today's moral standards.
I just don't get it even on a conceptual level. Why does a game being based on an awful historical thing make it as awful as that historical thing? The plot of X and Y is wars and genocide, but because it's not based on a specific war or genocide, it's okay? If Adolf Hitler turned up in a Pokemon game as the leader and boss of team Nazi, how is that any different from Lysandre, Cyrus, or any other team leader that wants to bring about the end of the world? Like Pokemon in general is cock-fighting, which I don't think Game Freak is promoting, how does the game being based in the Meiji Period mean Game Freak supports what happened in the Meiji Period?
I think this'll just have the effect of not so negative publicity. People will still buy the game.
Exactly this.
" It makes me MOTI every time I see Twitter ostracizing creators and their works over this, and I can guarantee that this will blow over in a week. Or at the very least, the same people will buy the games anyway, and defend their hypocrisy by claiming to be "critical of their interests".
If Gamefreak was more experimental and innovative, maybe, just maybe, people wouldn't be put off by how childish Pokémon can get these days (especially in regards to the anime).Exactly this.
Anyway, compared to the previous Direct, I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Sinnoh was my shit. The new games seem to have shaped up, I haven't been optimistic about new Pokemon titles in a long time.People seem to forget that when fiction contains dark subject matter, most of the time, the creators don't endorse it.
The quote RT's are as equally performative: do they believe directors who make slasher films are "profiting off of murder victims"? Or that when kids buy the game, they're going to sub-consciously think, "wow, this is an accurate portrayal of Japan.
Just admit you like 'problematic media', and get over it. Rather than cherry-picking and over-analyzing aspects of video games that might hurt the feelings of some white Twitter users' feelings, we should be criticizing the actual quality of the product. And from what we've seen so far, I think Legends: Arceus has the potential to be fun.
Also, wasn't The Great Ace Attorney set in ancient Japan, too? Not very woke of you to racebend a Japanese man, OP.
If they hadn’t deliberately gutted the mechanics and Pokemon roster, it would be a pretty awesome game.
Huh, I know that Taurus guy, small world and yes he's like that when he spergs about Nintendo/fighting games at Maximilian dood's discord server
I would think the main reason Yokai Watch didn't succeed is that the game is filled with a lot of Japanese culture. I've never played the series myself to be fair, but that's the impression that I get with it, as opposed to something like Pokemon where there isn't much of a cultural barrier. Except for like, the weird shrine people/hex maniacs in some of the earlier games I guess.
To be entirely fair, that Pat guy intentionally shitposts to get in dumb Twitter arguments for funsies. He’s liked and retweeted posts that both point out bad the argument is and just says stuff to fuck with people.
Some pokemon review channels are even getting into the whole "social commentary" bs that Legends is a reference to the Ainu genocide.
I haven't seen any of the trailers since I want to go into the game blind, but my guess is that it sets a bad example for the rest of the environments in the game. It's like that one cliff in SwSh that was overlooking the wild area or whatever, and how bad that looked in screenshots/trailers. Actually, I think that one looked worse in game than it did trailers?
I don't understand how grown ass adults have time to seethe on the internet that the new Pokemon game isn't some imaginary perfect product. It's very confusing to me as a long time fan of the series that's never really been shy to criticizing it that all these people popping out of the woodwork to screech about poorly textured trees or shadow draw distance don't think they look like flippant children.
Yeah. And it's not like there aren't things to he unhappy about with new Pokemon games. Hell I'll always be a little upset that we got cucked out of a true definitive edition of the Hoenn games because Masuda decided that Battle Facilities were cringe, but Im not going to spend my life seething on twitter about it because I have better things to do
