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thereās so, so, SO much nonsense surrounding this game that iām gonna do my best to separate it into digestible bits, with its own categories. even then this is... wow. itās big.
Warning tags will be added at the start of every section, but the general gist is: incest, pedophilia mentions, fetishization of rape and abuse, fetishization of mlm, fetishization of people of color, racism, ableism, nb erasure and transphobia. aside of the warnings, this post will also touch upon Scummy Business Practices
letās get going
Dana Runeās and Elleās lack of moral fiber: #incest #pedophilia#rape and abuse fetishization #homophobia
tl;dr: dana loves incest porn, elle loves guy on guy rape, and the both of them are friends with at least one pedophile
dana rune has run, is still running an incest zine (please visit my faq on what i think about āthats not really incestā and āitās just fictional!ā). The Arcana, as a dev team, clearly does not care, as shown in their e-mail responses.
dana also very much doesnāt care and has reacted to any criticism on this by dismissing people and blocking actual incest victims who tried to contact her about it claiming it was for her āmental healthā
in some tweets she claims she āinterpretsā the characters as not siblings, but she never really cared enough to cover her ass when it all began (she happily admits sheād ācross the incest lineā)
dana has commissioned artists who also ship incest, draw near-pedophilic art thatās supposed to pass as acceptable because the character involved is supposedly not a minor despite looking like a child down to wearing pigtails (the character is also wearing a racist-ass belly dancer outfit), AND even made white-washed fanart of The Arcana.
dana follows twitter user kapymui who also produces incestuous Fire Emblem art
dana has retweeted omocat long after it came out that omocat is, at the very least, consuming pedophilic content (on āomocat didnāt know what shota meant!ā: yes they did)
moving on, elle has a long, long, LONG history of fetishizing mlm and the rape and abuse that comes with yaoi and had a rich, RICH āyaoiā tag before they deleted their tumblr
they curiously deleted their tumblr right after i made this reblog
shortly after that, tumblr user thalassiq remade and started attacking and insulting any blogs criticizing them - even people providing support in IMs. Since this doesnāt match Dana and Elleās normal pity parties Iām personally willing to believe they were just a person wanting to start shit - but itās so telling how Elle used this chance to dismiss everyone who disagrees with them by calling them āchildrenā and did not even bother to offer a kind word to people who were harassed and even had their trauma mocked by this person. It costs 0 dollars to say āthat was not me but Iām sorry about people who were hurt.ā
Dana and Elle are close with Avaās Demon creator Michelle Czajkowski aka that one person who endorses child porn of her characters, and even had her draw a promo image for the game. Michelle has been creating highly sexualized content of her minor characters for a while now.
ok so elle and dana are gross freaks, how is that related to the game?
oh itās very very related
Dana Runeās and Elleās lack of moral fiber thatās Actually Inside The Game or The Gameās Blog: now with more #racism #fetishization of poc and mlm #whitewashing #fat hate #pedophilia #nb erasure #transphobia
tl;dr: the arcana is filled to the brim with racism! so much of it! haha holy shit! and thatās not even where it ends!!!
their game is rated PG-13 but includes incredibly sexual situations such as Julian making this fucking face while getting off on pain. This isnāt the only time Dana and Elle use their videogame aimed at young teens to showcase their kinks and fetishes. I have no issue with NSFW or titillating content, as long as itās rated accordingly. This content is NOT and itās a blatant disregard for their audience just to have a larger, more pliable demographic and have more money sent their way.
if you start your argument with āwell, teenagers look at pornā 1. shut up 2. theres a HUGE difference between teenagers going after adult content aimed at adults, and adults creating content they know will be seen by kids barely starting puberty
as pointed above, dana has 0 qualms literally commissioning people who make whitewashed fanart of her own fucking game thatās supposed to be all about the inclusivity and safe spaces
thearcanagame blog has a pattern of reblogging whitewashed fanart (before you come in swinging with the good ole āITS THE LIGHTINGā: 1. no it isnt 2. the artist shouldāve picked better lightning then 3. i draw and post shit online too so dont come telling me i just dont understaaaand),
fanart of their fat characters showed skinnier than they are in their sprites (although to be real for a moment - Portia is curvy at most and them behaving sheās fat rep is HILARIOUS).
going back to NSFW content: nadia and asra are overwhemlingly sexualized in the game, and were the first to have sexualized CGs and sprites introduced.
CGs: Asraās here, here aND HERE, Nadiaās here with a NSFW warning because sheās just got her whole fucking ass out. Sprites: Asraās thank god for whoever compiled it all in one image, Nadiaās and once again, NSFW warning lmfao!
Julianās sprites on the other hand are noticeably tamer, including the one where heās fucking strapped in leather. His only sexual (NSFW warning because its literally softcore tentacle porn WHICH, ONCE AGAIN, SHOULDNāT BE PUT IN A GAME AIMED AT 13YOS) CGs were also included months after Nadia and Asra received any of theirs.
Through all of the updates, people have constantly requested that Asra and Nadiaās sexualization be toned down, and time after time The Arcana just churned out fetishistic, hypersexualized content at an absurd rate, especially when compared to the one white love interest.
Oh, speaking of the one white love interest: Julian is based off of Jeff Goldblum (this is not spectulation - they p much bring it up at any given time) but like. If Jeff Goldblum was white. They base their favorite love interest off their supposed favorite man in the world but casually leave his skin tone behind. Lmao.
they also play favorites very obviously - in the prologue, Nadia and Asra have a romance paid scene each. Julian has a scene... that requires no coins. Julian was also the first LI to receive three CGs, two of them requiring no coins, while both Asraās and Nadiaās first CGs were behind a paywall
Dana and Elle have been notoriously skittish about confirming or denying their charactersā ethnicities. After hyping for weeks on thearcanagame that they would confirm the characterās races they basically made a post that amounted to āwell theyāre not white lol!ā
they only relented after the perfectly understandable outrage... and posted a thread about it on Elleās twitter. Nothing on the actual thearcanagame blog. Anyway, hereās the thread. Note how thereās mention of Julian being Jeff Goldblum... but nothing about him and Portia being Jewish (or āfantasy Jewishā as it were).
The one time they did confirm their jewishness dana then backpedaled and said she shouldnāt have done that lol.
another fun tidbit of how well The Arcana handles race and how much it cares about feedback from fans: an ask was sent about an anon begging for Nadia to step on them. The blog, with the finesse of a bunch of horny dumbasses, didnāt just publish the ask, but approved of it (even though the fans of color had long, long, LONG been telling everyone not to fetishize Nadia into a āstep on me kweenā wet dream). People were outraged, of course, and the blog ~apologized~ and said they were still learning.... then a new chapter included a scene of Nadia stepping on the Apprentice. š
not to mention elle, on their twitter, made a passive aggressive āwomen can be doms?ā tweet, trying to twist it into a āyr oppressing womenā angle (when the issue is that women of color are always constantly portrayed as aggressive and domineering)
Now for a wombo combo of racism and Elleās fetishization of mlm:
the devs have spoken at length of how Julianās and Asraās relationship was quite unhealthy. In a paid scene in Asraās route, theyāre depicted as Asra being disgusted w Julian touching him+Julian following Asra to his shop when Asra refused his offer to go with him (aka julian... stalked him lmfao).
.......... this scene is promptly followed by a highly sexual scenario where Julianās pain fetish is played up. Remember how this game is rated PG-13? Me neither. Asraās previous disgust with Julian is also forgotten, for some reason (and by some reason i mean Elle wants to make them fuck w/o buildup or logic).
Then Asraās route has yet another paid scene dedicated to Asrian, even though heās supposed to not even like Julian! And be head over heels with the Apprentice! But Elle just has to make these two be entangled despite insisting their relationship was not good for either of them!
Now hereās the kicker: Julian doesnāt have any paid scenes related to his romance with Asra. Note how itās one of the brown LIs whose route is highjacked by the white LI, but not vice versa. Hmmmmm.
Now, on the topic of Asra: thearcanagame has said repeatedly that heās nb and uses he/him pronouns, and promised (since last year) that there would be dialogue where he speaks about his gender
as of the making of this post such dialogue still does not exist
so basically asra is the nb to dumbledoreās gay: anyone who just plays the game w/o keeping up with the official blog has no idea of what asraās gender is supposed to be.
aka heās not nb. heās just a cis guy. the arcana just doesnāt want to put its money where its mouth is, i dont care if elle is nb themself. the team made a promise which has not been fulfilled yet and i suspect will not be.
instead, our introduction to canon nb characters is... these two.
By āthese twoā i mean neither vulgora nor valdemar are even fucking human, and stick out like sore thumbs with their monstruousness.
so our nb rep is... non-human villains. a few books later one of Nadiaās sisters with they/them pronouns shows up, but thatās too little too late on top of the fact that we shouldāve known Asra was nb from the first to begin with. Itās a fucking embarrassment and an insult.
at least two villains are visibly disabled (Lucioās missing arm and Voltaās blind eye+intentionally asymmetrical face). Julianās eye doesnāt count because, spoilers, heās not lacking an eye and even if he was itād still be hidden behind a dashing eyepatch instead of grotesquely displayed as a sign of his lacking morality.
BUT WAIT! IT DOESNāT EVEN END THERE!
The Arcana Exploits The App Business Model To Price Their Full Game at $500, $1000 if the three extra routes make it out, and they never delivered their Kickstarter rewards:
tl;dr: you heard me
the original price per route was planned on being $1.99
they took that āsubject to changeā really seriously, it seems, because now each route, once the game is fully out, is estimated to cost around $170 each.
both those screenshots are taken from this post which explains in detail just how truly scummy all of The Arcanaās business model and decisions are: https://mysticmicrotransactions.tumblr.com/post/174308723344/dishonesty-from-the-arcana
the tl;dr is basically whatās listed in the beginning of this section, but other highlights from that post are: the use of addictive gambling mechanics such the Wheel of Fortune, and the dazzling calls to action in the new mini-game.
something that The Arcana supporters forget (or choose to ignore) is the fact that for a long, long time the game did not have the mini-game or the log-in rewards for coins. Players depended only on the gambling of the WoF or paying absurd amounts of money for the new chapters.
the devs went from playing the victims who were unable of controlling prices to (as spoken of in the link from mysticmicrotransactions) saying the making of the game (a pathetic little app game backed by a studio and a kickstarter) justifies the prices
they also gave people false hope about maybe changing the prices in the future, all while bleeding money from loyal players in āmicroā transactions
the arcana literally added a $99.99 coins option on their latest update
in case it hasnāt sunk in yet: you can pay a hundred dollars upfront to the arcana, and you still will not have access to the whole game
there is no defense to this
none
āitās free stop whiningā let me explain:
āspend months on end accumulating fake currency or pay hundreds of dollars up-front to be able to playā is a scummy business model no matter how you look at it
if i can spend $60 upfront to play an AAA game thereās no excuse to demand more than that for a game with much smaller and, honestly, inferior content
the combination of there being already far and few games featuring lgbt characters and characters of color AND the little cult of personality set up by Dana and Elle makes people feel that spending money to support them is an acceptable expense.
itās not
manipulating people into spending ridiculous amounts of money and then claiming āitās their choiceā is just scummy business, baby, and thats all the arcana does
the devs are brats who instead of admitting $500 is absurd for a game instead write petty little caricatures into their game - like, lbr: dana, elle, if i could afford diamonds in my hair i wouldnāt have even bothered with your shitstain of a game
despite bragging that ppl would get the full story w/o needing to pay, the paid scenes are pretty much required - the first few books of julianās route have no romance without accessing any of the paid options. you dont even get so much as a kiss in without handing coins over. many, many people were baffled when julian had a teary break-up scene when from their perspective they hadnāt even started building a relationship.
wow thatās more than i ever thought itād be
and iāve been aware of their bullshit for near a whole year now!
i donāt have much of a note to end this on, other than: the arcana just isnāt even that good. it suffers from weak writing, pathetic character development and above all actually harmful content. do not try to argue with me on any of these points unless youāve read all of that, because whatever you have to say iāve likely mentioned before. if you still are that determined to yell at a me on the internet, please preface your argument with the phrase āIām a pee pee poo poo manā so I know youāve read everything in here. thank you!
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