The insidious thing about Ghost of Tsushima is that the woke elements were generally kept in the side content that the majority of players ignored. I tried to play some of the side content, but a lot of it was so boring that I didn’t bother getting far enough to really see more of the wokeness. Outside of the women being ugly in general, the main story really wasn’t obviously woke, even though the story never really contextualizes concepts like honor and seppuku adequately nor does the game sufficiently show the brutality of the Mongols.
I think many of us were expecting Sucker Punch to follow the same trend of every other post-PS3 era Playstation studio where the first game is fine or even good, only for the team to hire shit writers and go out of its way to be more woke. The hiring of that woman to be the actress for the main character is merely indicative of the values that Sucker Punch push. Erika Ishii may not influence the game itself (though let’s not kid ourselves, she is a rich activist whose entire persona is being as obnoxiously leftist as possible, so of course she will influence the characterization), but Sucker Punch deliberately chose this woman to represent their game, meaning they agree with what she stands for.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows should have been the wake-up call for a lot of people, but the problem is that because it is so ridiculous, the Overton Window has shifted. Now treating GoY with skepticism is seen as an overreaction because the main protagonist is Japanese. I don’t plan on buying GoY, one because the gameplay of Ghost of Tsushima got very boring and I doubt that the gameplay will become anymore complex, and two because I have seen enough examples from Sony to know that this shit will be gay, lame, and incompetently written. Hopefully you will do the same.
Wait you're getting the impression people are giving Ghost of Yotei a pass? Ever since it's announcement I'm hearing about people raising red flags.
EVERY western game developer and publisher has lost it's benefit of doubt pass, thanks to giving out ideological shit and expecting us to eat it. Sony lost it even more thanks to ruining a great game with Helldivers 2 with their mismanagement which is probably one of the things that led to Concord failing so hard. The right currently culturally in the gaming scene is in accession and the slightest bit of leftist taint is failing from this year forwards.
Expect some of these delays to be attempts to rewrite parts of games if they get the chance as Concord also set the precedent of a full failure after launch.
There are more people who are aware, but the mocking of Yasuke was easier for normies to do because Ubisoft has become the industry punching bag where the games are so bland that there is basically no passionate fanbase behind their games along with Yasuke being so ridiculous of a character. Sony’s single player games are basically treated as “premium” content for normies who have convinced themselves that cinematic slop is a sign of “sophistication.” It’s harder to break the conditioning when the game is by a developer the gaming zeitgeist has deemed as “good” and has enough of an illusion of normalcy in comparison that the zeitgeist can defend it and call anybody who opposes it as insane.
Nah, you have to go to normie circles, forums, and YouTube channels. It's incredibly depressing.
Yes, you're right that there are some people raising proper red flags about the game, but I briefly browsed through some normie channels who are clamouring for Yotei, making it as if Ubisoft's delay of Shadows is a win for gamers because Ghost of Yotei is the "real" game that they should be supporting, and sadly, there are plenty of coonsumers eating it all up.
Thankfully, there was proper pushback mostly from Asian males that I've seen in comment sections making the most rational comments and rebuttals, as plenty of simps are saying "there's nothing wrong with a female samurai"...
I'm going to copy/paste this Korean guy's response, which I think sums up the surface issues rather well...
"To be honest, Ghost of Tsushima was a game based on masculinity from the beginning. The strong masculine emotions that come with it are the core of the game. It's completely different from games like Nier Automata or Stella Blade, which emphasize the appeal of their female protagonists. But out of the blue, putting a female protagonist forward is an attempt to throw away gamers' tastes... "
I mean, the public ignored the "historically accurate" made-up kunoichi* from Shadows
*Female ninjas weren't a thing either
People think Japanese assassin equals ninja, that's just not true. They were guerilla fighters using ambush tactics.
I'm sure there were some female assassins who poisoned people they seduced or some shit, but they weren't running around ambushing people.
Prostitutes that sold their bodies and their info, but let's put 'em in a mask and call 'em Jubei.
I mean they tended to make many a dick disappear for a time, so I suppose that's a ninja trick.
Yeah, that contributes to the problem too, though the female protagonist basically went under the radar for the majority of the marketing by Ubisoft. The Overton Window for women in traditionally male roles has been shifted over for decades now.
Oh absolutely, they'll say that having troons/dykes in japan is nowhere near as bad as having a literal fucking nigger samurai in japan
thus they are low-key making normie consumers "compromise" with Marxists because their hunger for dopamine is stronger than their disgust for marxist propaganda
i've seen similar excuses used for Baldur's gayte which is THE GAYEST GAME ever released, it was so fucking gay that it spawned a bajillion mods to remove all the gay faggotry
frankly i don't care if its niggers, troons or dykes, if a game contains of this shit i'm not playing it, let alone buying it (esp in the age of FitGirl/Dodi-repacks)
unfortunately guys like me are in the minority and majority of consumers are essentially cattle, our only hope is that they go full fucking woke in their publicity and basically destroy their own game before its even released (they're doing it right now)
Normies crave being seen as normal and reasonable, and always slide back to the "middle" position that makes them look chill and not too extreme to their friends. It's why Critical Drinker and Asmongold are so popular despite having no convictions whatsoever.
I really don't know how Asmonbald got so popular, that dude lives like a NIGGER despite being a multi-millionaire and his convictions on the anti-White stuff are so cucked, like at one he did mention that Blizzard is pushing WHITE male gamers out, but then forced to apologize and backpeddle because his Twitch shekels would've been in harms way
these shills are literally prompted by the system to brainwash normies to be as passified as possible and just mindlessly consume media, regardless of its quality, intention or political affiliation
Insurgent i know i've said this many times before, but legitimately consider suicide.
The fact you know about the niggerporn spam makes you suspect
unless he's your cubicle neighbor i'm just assuming the "pajeet" and insurgent is the same person
Creeping incrementalism. The depraved wokies are playing the long game. Even if it's two steps forward and one back they're still winning.
This. For every Ubislop release there will be a Baldur's Gate 3 or Ghost of Yotei. Just like, for every Acolyte there is an Arcane.
They use media to push too far Left to be acceptable, but then bring in a less extreme form of media to win the normies over. Nevertheless, the Overton Window continues to move Left regardless.
I don't think so. Regressives shot themselves in the foot when they started pushing sex-negative feminism. A lot of men will put up with woke ideology if the character is hot, but not if the main character is an ugly "themmfatale" (lol).
I still expect the game to break even just because Sony fanboys don't have any other new games to play, but even they have been alienated by Sony's greed (PS5 Pro shenanigans). It's probably going to sell 5-6 million copies compared to the 10+3 million copies (Playstation + PC) of the first game.
sbi? no buy.
All the women in Tsushima were incredibly old, so they had reason to look like middle aged uggos. Double so the ones like Yuna who were also extremely run down by a hard life. I'd say of any game with ugly women, it at least has women you'd expect to be ugly instead of just making 20 somethings have a manjaw.
Also the Mongols get sufficiently brutal in the late game after you teach them how to use poisons and show yourself to still be an actual threat, rather than a broken nation they've already conquered and they don't need to beat down actively.
With the exception of the Archer Girl sidequest, which is legitimately mind boggling how it made it in, I don't even remember much wokeness in the side stuff.
But so far I've seen no defense of Yotei. Tsushima never got popular enough to get heavy discussion in the mainstream, and so far the only talk about Yotei I've seen is people ragging on the FeMC.
the old woman you help is a dyke as well
you missed the grandma samurai dyke girl boss
Goy the game.
Must every company burn their success with a woke sequel?
i’m pretty sure it’s going to be woke slop, just look at the developers, don’t buy it