So in some videogame related news, Atlus just announced and posted a trailer for a remake of Persona 3. Pretty normal gaming news right? Yet the response I've seen on reddit and elsewhere has literally been batshit crazy.
They announced that it was gonna be a straight up remake and not include any of the portable content (Which added a female main character route). This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
Like who cares? It's a remake, they can make it however they want. Not to mention the female mc they're creaming over was only in the portable remake and never mentioned in any of the official works. Yet these people are foaming at the mouth over it? Have videogamers always been this crazy, like is a portable spinoff character from 14 years ago worth to sperg over? I just don't understand it and wonder if I'm alone in it.
For those wondering, the ENTIRE cast is being recast in English, not just "certain actors deemed evil by progressives."
I think this is better than just replacing Vic and Karen, in my opinion. Better they change everyone than just the controversial ones. (They also haven't had Fuuka's original VA since P3 Portable, and I don't think Wendee Lee fits the character...) I won't hold my breath for soundalikes, though.
It was either all of them or none of them (without explicit consent). They can't clearly take a side in sociopolitical issues, they know there's real diversity among their consumers, and the past few months have shown that a not-insignificant amount of actual consumers can and will boycott if you do stupid shit.
Considering the performance she brought to the game, I hope she hasn't had work at all since then.
How they managed to get the literal worst VA of the bunch, and made her the most talkative by making her the battle narrator, I'll never understand. Its not like this was a game where everyone was bad, everyone else is doing just fine with her noticeable standing out.