Is it racist? Yes.

Still makes me mad that people felt the need to get all butthurt about it.

It’s also amazing to me that the headline tries to give the impression that the game has a lot of technical issues, when in fact Digital Foundry seems really impressed by what it pulls off, especially compared with past games in the series:

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-xenoblade-chronicles-3-nintendo-sw…

Do you guys now just report on other reviews instead of writing your own? Is that what we’ve come to?

Japanese-American guy here, the white people putting on kimonos thing was even endorsed by the local Japanese consulate (Boston I believe), and the local Japanese-American community. Still makes me mad that people felt the need to get all butthurt about it.

Your 2nd paragraph seems a bit ridiculous. Have you talked to an American progressive, recently? If you’ve been to any remotely left-leaning grassroots organizing meeting one of the first things you’ll recognize are the efforts made by someone to acknowledge the indigenous peoples of the land where the meeting is…

A pattern seems to be emerging:

Man, I feel like this is kind of a stretch. Like you’re groping for a criticism where there isn’t really anything to be said about it.

I’ll start this by saying that anyone is free to feel insulted by whatever they feel insulted by. But I - an Asian-American living in a third world country - really think this criticism is stretching a bit.

What does “grapple with its history” look like exactly?

Don’t forget that as soon as she’s done what she feels she needs to do she hands the reins of power off and disappears from public life, a well known trait in fascist dictators.

You get it, Rhea was a monster, Edelgard was the only one with the position and desire to challenge the church.

“the Black Eagles, led by Edelgard, who desperately wants to make fascism fashionable”

Dimitri is not down for any change at the start of the game. He can’t even speak the truth about Duscur openly to protect his best friend and their people even though he’s a direct witness and the fricking heir to the throne, and his focus is elsewhere. He’s completely useless, especially since he’s the house leader…

I’m gonna be honest Edelgard makes more and more sense to me as time goes on. I could whine about her methods a few years ago but an entire continent being dominated by a militant theocracy based on a false sense of genetic privilege is, well...

“the Black Eagles, led by Edelgard, who desperately wants to make fascism fashionable”

I demand that Leonie be added to the list of expendable Golden Deer members. That is all.

The issue that really shitty little wankers who think racism is funny love the kind of plausible deniability you’re offering so generously.

Sure this may have been a mistake but damn it’s really hard to give the benefit of the doubt on this one. One part of me is wants to believe the good in humanity and cast it off as a mistake and the other part is going “I’ll bet some a hole there, snuck this in thinking no one would make the reference because they…

It’s kind of funny as the more I look back on Dragon Age 2, the more I think its release and the aftermath that followed is one of the more critical points in cRPG history. Before going deeper, I want to be clear that I absolutely love that game, thought it was ahead of its time in so many ways and it warms my heart…