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berrymeter · 1 year ago

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i don't know if i'm just reaching with my criticisms sometimes bc i certainly don't see similar sentiments echoed a lot but it could just be that i'm not looking in the right places. my most recent problem has been with okami (videogame) bc i've been thinking a lot about how capcom put a lot of imperialist imagery in their games & okami is chock full of that. the country it's set in being called nippon, the rising sun pattern appearing whenever you draw the sun brush technique, the yamato ark carrying the "heavenly people" down to earth (the main ethnic group in japan is yamato btw), the oina tribe being clearly inspired from an existing indigenous group & being associated with animals & overall very mystified. idk

#perth.txt #& i mean okami's been one of my favourite games ever since i was a kid. it's not like i WANT it to suck. however.#if i was any good at google searches & whatnot i'd def try to look into it there but i am supremely bad at finding what i'm looking for #i don't think the oina tribe are depicted in ways that are meant to be demeaning but they do feel dehumanised & exoticised #& you do get attacked out of nowhere by the main oina guy who is shown to be relatively unreasonable from the get go.#that's only my personal feelings on the matter though. i could be talking the hell out of my ass. i could be severely uninformed.#but considering it's capcom. yknow. maybe i'm not wrong to take some amount of issue there

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