Elden Ring dropped and with it came the usual hot takes from the gaming press, dutifully deconstructed on the latest Splash Damage:
Ash Parrish is back, nitpicking one of the greatest games ever made—Elden Ring—because it doesn’t have enough hairstyles for black characters. We discuss her tendency to turn everything into a race issue along with Sony’s hypocrisy regarding nudity in Horizon Forbidden West, Age of Empires III new trigger warning, open racism against white anime voice actors, CD Projekt Red stopping sales in Russia, and a God of War director’s bizarre hypothetical.
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I kind of agree, I was trying to make a faith/strength build Kramer and they don’t have any flattop Afros.
Hair variety in general is kind of shit tbh, this certainly ain’t Nioh 2’s CC. Still the best Fromsoft has ever had though.
I never wear a helmet or any armor at all for that matter.
Ahh. Reminds me of my playthrough of Saints Row 3 as a roided-out, buck naked gorilla with an afro. Good times.