Y'know, the Tales series is a perfect example of how you can make a fantasy story that has heavy (liberal) political messages, yet doesn't beat you over the head with it and try and tell you that you're a terrible person for not accepting it.
Pretty much all of the Tales games are green aesops that say "nature good, technology bad", or are about otherwise traditionally liberal ideals such as anti-racism. And yet there's always some nuance to it. Like how in Tales of Symphonia,the villain's entire thing is about how he wants to eliminate racism from the world, and decides that the best way to go about this is to force everyone to become identical puppets. Whereas the protagonist is like "Okay yeah, racism is really bad and we should do something about it, but uh... that ain't it, chief."
I wonder how many of today's liberals would agree with ToS' villain's methods. How many would say "But he was actually right because we should eliminate racism by ANY means necessary, even forcing people!". Probably a lot, I'd wager.
You're right I didn't even think of it but most of the stories are like that. At the very least the Tales games offered some beauty in their music, character design, artwork, etc. One of the biggest problems with the modern games are outside of hitting you over the head with it, they are just ugly games in every way.
RIP
Y'know, the Tales series is a perfect example of how you can make a fantasy story that has heavy (liberal) political messages, yet doesn't beat you over the head with it and try and tell you that you're a terrible person for not accepting it.
Pretty much all of the Tales games are green aesops that say "nature good, technology bad", or are about otherwise traditionally liberal ideals such as anti-racism. And yet there's always some nuance to it. Like how in Tales of Symphonia,the villain's entire thing is about how he wants to eliminate racism from the world, and decides that the best way to go about this is to force everyone to become identical puppets. Whereas the protagonist is like "Okay yeah, racism is really bad and we should do something about it, but uh... that ain't it, chief."
I wonder how many of today's liberals would agree with ToS' villain's methods. How many would say "But he was actually right because we should eliminate racism by ANY means necessary, even forcing people!". Probably a lot, I'd wager.
Anyway, I digress. RIP to the artist.
You're right I didn't even think of it but most of the stories are like that. At the very least the Tales games offered some beauty in their music, character design, artwork, etc. One of the biggest problems with the modern games are outside of hitting you over the head with it, they are just ugly games in every way.