wait…I’m lost…I thought folks admitted the game was mid after playing the demo…how are folks back to “blaming” the scores/reviews on the main character’s race?
Not necessarily the review scores themselves, but more the juelzing around the game after the scores came out. This is more of a dogpile of "We KNEW this was going to be bad," whereas the narrative on High on Life was "Oh, this is a cult hit in the making," even though anyone sensible had written it off as being a game that has almost hyper-specific writing and humor that targets that audience almost specifically. Titles with black leads, or even black personalities rarely get the benefit of the doubt.
For example, Deathloop more or less followed the exact same lifespan as most Arkane titles. Comes out, is good, doesn't really hit with a huge audience because of Arkane's approach and style. But Deathloop is the only one that is currently being framed as a disappointment in some way.
"No I'm not saying that because of the female character or race or anything but wtf is the theme here?
You got medieval hip hop music being played in showcase videos and parkour with the nikes? lmao..
Why couldn't have this been an actual grounded medieval RPG with a female character grasping at how she needs to actually survive in the world rather than just have weird stringy magic and flipping or sliding to combat mobs.."
Anytime black culture is integrated into a game, here comes the hurt feeling cacs calling it "woke". Most sensitive bytchmade mufukkaz on the planet nowadays.
Kena was pure fantasy (no black cultural aesthetics are in the game)
Deathloop either (could easily swipe out the 2 main characters for whites)
But let any of those games have a smidgeon of modern black cultural aesthetic in them and they'd be called "woke" too.
Goofy ass cacs.
Man, this shyt was always a losing bet for us, though. Even if this ends up somehow being a hit, it's definitely black folks as written by white folks, aggravating tropes and all. Yet another "rough around the edges", "from the streets" character, who they equate having a personality and confidence with "hip-hop".
