Making a post for this so I can write my full thoughts on it
The Localized versions don't count
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The Localized versions don't count
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Compromised Content Red Flags
1- Safe Designs/Humor/Content (Censorship)
2- Gender Equality conscious writing/characters (Feminism)
3- Politically correct views on sexuality and Gender (LGBT)
4- Diversity Ratios (D.I.E - Mass immigration normalization)
5- Ugliness
Freedom Of Expression Content: When game content was competitive and devs would play around the line
1- Risky Designs, offensive(funny) humor, lewd characters and taboo content.
2- Catering to specific demographics instead of making everything for everyone.
3- Normal views on (or Idealized/beautified, comical deceptions of) sexuality/gender/race
Global Standards Content: No freedom of expression vidya product
Politically Correct Content: No Good content, forced neutrality and diversity&Inclusion
Pokemon LA: Unisex Outfits
ACNH: Most neutered boring villager dialogue - Ugly diversity hair - Gender means nothing and can be changed at any time, male/female faces and hair are identical (unlike previous games), villagers don't comment when you crossdress like the previous game
Woke Pandering: Crippled content and writing to pander to pronouns in bios
FEE: "Select your appearance" - Very boring writing/content despite being a fanservice anniversary game - Everyone is Bi and have neutral dialogue with the MCs (Unlike previous games where they specifically had Yuri/Yaoi characters
RF5:
ESG Release: Japanese game product that exist only so that the western branch can raise their ESG score by bragging online about how much they were able to twist the JP devs' arms
Ugly redesigns - "Select your pronouns" genderless MC - Everyone is Bi (without acknowledging it) - Ugly Diversity hair
ESG?
"Promote New World Order messaging for Shekels"
ESG Product: ESG compliant propaganda game
Ugly Models - All females are ugly, old or look like trannies, no young/cute/girly characters - Diversity quota ugly new fighter - Black gay announcer - Drag Queen promotion in game - Worst "Body type and pronouns" character creator yet - Woke writing - hideous diversity ratio NPCs
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Strangled Sequel: Games that would have doubled down on the humor and fanservice if we were living in an ESG free world
ZTotK:
>None of the humor and fanservice from BotW
>Diversity Ratio
>Crossdressing outfit removed (probably because the deception jokes in BotW and the idea that some clothes are for women are not ESG friendly)
>White Blond Zelda's royal bloodline and the first rulers of Hyrule are a Dark elf and furry goat Satan
>All ancestor characters are black (even the bird and fish ones), as if this game was made in a way to accommodates the localizers replacing the words "Race&Tribe" with "People"
>Paya's Black boyfriend(?)
>Sidon's ugly masculine wife
>Link (Symbolically) marrying all the sages
>Hudson's ugly Gerudo daughter.
X3: Game has some based nuggets like the Rex's harem photo, but in the end it's a strangled game with none of the fun or appeal of X2
>Walking on eggshells content and politically correct soulless writing (The best the game has to offer was N saying "my woman").
>Instead of having the party become more and more conscious of the opposite sex and their humanity, the game stayed tame even after they learned where babies come from. Devs were probably strangled by the western branch and the ESG to avoid writing dialogue about what it means to be a man and a woman, and how the way they lived their lives up until "morbing" feels unnatural now.
>Tame character designs
>Main characters are all 18+ years old
>Diversity Ratio and a black genius trope from the japanese-ish colony
>The JP character introduction tweets for this game avoided mentioning the characters' sex, and the game's writing avoids using gendered language to an unnatural degree.
>Removed "Daga Otoko Da
Defiled Franchise: Globohomo, mass immigration normalization propaganda game
Gender neutral protagonist (Unlike previous games
Opinions on the character designs
Female Protagonist: Barely a girl
Nemo (Nemona): Barely female - Boys clothes - Bouzu haircut with attachments
Botan (Penny): Non-binary gay boy they/them troon (Nintendo was just too afraid to admit it)
Olim (Sada) Side shave haircut feet hag
Nanjamo (Iono): Did the NOA tell the devs to cover her with that tent
Ryme: Ugly fat manly "black coded" hag rapper
Biwa (Eri): Ridiculous and masculine design, nothing good about it
Meloco (Mela): Anti-fanart stupid and busy looking design
Grusha: Female character that got turned into a male (Probably by the western branch) to push some gender spectrum bullshit
Lip (Tulip): Most feminine outfit, but on a weird looking hag
Chili (Rika): Biseinen that got turned into a woman (probably by the western branch) for gender spectrum bullshit, or to avoid artist shipping him with the toddler
Omodaka (Geeta): Cockroach looking indian woman, ugliest champion yet
Final Comment
Censorship&Wokeness
New Japanese games being heavily toned down and having more "socially responsible" content/writing is a fact. however, I can only speculate about how much of it is due to pressure from western branch localizers
Some woke content is blatant, others are more subtle, some of it is ESG related, others could just be the developers being tricked into pandering to the woke by their western branches.
It's possible that I'm reading too much into some things, but I'll just trust my intuition for now.
Somewhat Related:
My Favorite Animangavidya
Not a recommendation, just something I wanted to post on the internet. Games Anime Manga Somewhat related: https://varishangout.com/index.php?threads/the-woke-propaganda-unapologetic-entertainment-chart.2146/
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