Final fantasy has a Medievil approach to diversity(too many black people=Bad)

[Kingshango]

as I've said in the main FF16 thread, this world is overfull with slavery and dehumanization. There are direct and clearly intentional parallels to American Chattle Slavery and facets of Jim Crow all throughout this shyt with how the Bearers/Branded are treated.

The most restraint a notoriously racially out-of-touch company like SE could show was... not trying to wedge black folk in here. Because they'd do is clumsily.
Need we mention the 'hip hop walk' from Forspoken? Or... Barrett's whole character in FF7R? This is not a company that would nuance a black character - they're devs from a xenoskeptic monoculture . They'd have a bunch of black slaves being told to 'go tell your master X' or 'eww. A bearer' 'what is one of those doing here?' And my skin would crawl off my goddamned body

Let them blondes enslave them gingers so they can have their Firas and Thundaras. They can do their freedom fight and rise up their slave rebellion and try and get their spiky-haired Nat Turner on - sure there aren't brown-skinned people in the world. But the story; under all the magic and the dragons and the giant swords - the story of black folk is in this bytch in a way that can't be hidden by light NPC skin tones

• 'Bearer' is just this world's hard-R, and they just gotta take having it spat at them.
• Bearers who managed to dodge the brand are the lightbrights that could pass; with the same vitriol from all directions hurled at them.
• Being found out to be a 'bearer' can and will ruin your life and will literally get you swooped up and tossed into slavery.
• Punishment of 'desertion' = punishing runaway slaves. Same Sword of Damocles to live under.
• Communities of former slaves living in places no one dares to go as their only means of protection from oppression... the threat of former slave owners popping up at any time to destroy the communities they've built with impunity; just because they think they are superior beings by right of an uncontrollable chance at birth.

These motherfukkers might as well just name a certain location in the game 'Tulsa' for what I'm seeing coming in the future, plotline-wise

I'mma go back to sitting in this tavern thumbing through these lore entries, listening to this orchestral music and dropping blunted freestyles for the rest of the day.

Some psychopaths on Twitter and Resetera would have called it “progressive” and “brave” to have black people depicted as the slaves in the game.

 

[Black Mamba]

Some psychopaths on Twitter and Resetera would have called it “progressive” and “brave” to have black people depicted as the slaves in the game.

Any cac reviewers that dinged points from their reviews are 100% racist fukks that wanted some slavery porn

 

[Software]

I thought we accepted that Japanese games are just gonna have shyt representation for black people and anyone not Japanese? Even other asians be done dirty by them in games.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Any cac reviewers that dinged points from their reviews are 100% racist fukks that wanted some slavery porn

Why do you assume the black people would have to be slaves.

Seems like the same conclusion they came to so they just pretended melanin doesn’t exist.

You in here with the racist cac perspective trying to call other people racist cacs

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Yeah and @MeachTheMonster tryna act fake outraged at being no black people there is fukking unhinged xbot saltiness.
He dead ass being nikkas not being branded
When in reality its really because the game isn’t coming to his shytbox
Black peoples don’t need to be in this game cuz shyt would’ve went bad real quick cuz I’m at the way slaves there are treated

Who said anything about outraged?

I’m in here laughing at the absurdity of it all.

 

[Black Mamba]

Why do you assume the black people would have to be slaves.

Seems like the same conclusion they came to so they just pretended melanin doesn’t exist.

You in here with the racist cac perspective trying to call other people racist cacs

All I see is cac on cac crimes im cool with that.

More unhinged xbot saltiness babble from you
I’m enjoying the game you aren’t go play hifi rush

 

[MeachTheMonster]

All I see is cac on cacs in turbans crimes im cool with that.

FTFY

 

[gtj1982]

So it turns out this game a while middle eastern country full of brown people.

 

[Lord Beasley]

ClownTheMonster is only clamoring because it's not on Xbox, but it's a proven fact that the Japanese are obsessed with Aryans and white ppl in general. That's a staple in anime and jrpgs

 

[Deafheaven]

look how many posts this goofball has in here for a game he is not nor will play

mental illness

 

[winb83]

So it turns out this game a while middle eastern country full of brown people.

Yeah it's plenty of brown skinned people there.

 

[Canon]

look how many posts this goofball has in here for a game he is not nor will play

mental illness

its a strong case of the shambles my friend

be sympathetic

 

[BaltimoreTwilightMarauder]

Stop complaining about not being in other people's stories.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

I thought we accepted that Japanese games are just gonna have shyt representation for black people and anyone not Japanese? Even other asians be done dirty by them in games.

Nah, there's no excuse for that especially since anyone can go on YouTube or tiktok and see black people talking about games or any topic.

Japanese fighting games have come a long way with diversity with black characters that aren't stereotypes(Master Raven, Dolores, Sean Matsuda)

Even previous final fantasy games had characters like kiros (ff8). This is really just a case of them being lazy and not wanting to hire black people to voice or model the characters.

 

[Nomad1]

they wanted a euro-centric game, why are you nikkas crying if they dont want to include black people in eurocac?