[Actually Kotaku / Black Girl Magic] It's NEVER enough
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Kotaku (next year): "Why didn't racists like this great game?"
Kotaku reader: "You told me the devs were racist?!"
What the actual game-buying public sees in this game is a product trying too hard to pander. Pandering to the current US moment, and the West in general. Every molecule of this looks like it was focus-grouped. Of course the California PR firm they hired to DO the focus group threw out their own results when they were found to be too misogynous and racist, so they just wrote up the "real, honest" input themselves. Can't have Joe Public influencing things when we have a Cultural Revolution to bring about.
Hapless profit-seeking Japanese firm assumes professionality from their American counterparts and follows their advice by darkening every skintone, swagging every walk animation, and throwing obscenities and hipster non-sequiturs into every player exclamation to get something that sounds like Faye from Netflix's Bebop. The gamers will be so pleased!
The game is so dated just in its aesthetics. "Stronk black lesbian side-shave" is going to be the clearest indicator to future anthropologists of a work being conceived in 2019. I know every DC, Marvel, and Disney character is this way, but even you in far off Moon-Speak must have some idea of just how out of touch those companies are to the culture they claim to represent.
Best thing I can say about this production is... hiring Bear McCreary to do your soundtrack will perhaps be a positive, and I may buy the OST even if I'll never touch this thing itself. I say this tentatively, I'll wait to hear it first.
That's exactly what I've always thought woke companies with woke marketing teams were doing, and why they go broke but continue doing the same thing. Normally if your TV show or game or whatever is scoring worse than expected you'll do some focus tests or targeted surveys and ask something like "What aspect did you dislike the most?" Returning answers like these:
But in Clown World, a company does the same survey and then throws out reasons 1 and 2 because obviously those were just far-right trolls and part of an Internet hate campaign. "They don't represent our young, diverse target audience!"
So they only look at reasons 3-5 (optimistically) and present those to higher ups and investors.
Never hire an SJW. Their personal crusade is more important than your company's profits.