Wow, it's almost as if the game being made by Americans accidentally highlighted the imperialist and oppressive elements of samurai culture without a complete lack of criticism towards it. Even Kurosawa would be disappointed (typically featured the peasants and poor samurai as the primary heroes/survivors in his jidaigeki), Kobayashi is just laughing from the grave)

Really though, I guess we haven't learned from Spec Ops: The Line

      • AnarchoLeninist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Kurosawa mode is just a grayscale filter. Kurosawa films aren't gray. They're black and white

        • s_p_l_o_d_e [they/them,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The sekiro mod is nice too because it swaps the in-game music for jidaigeki soundtrack pieces (from Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, and Samurai Rebellion)

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            they look vibrant and pretty to me

            dunno how you can swing from "they are bland" to "they are garish" tbh

            • s_p_l_o_d_e [they/them,he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Misspoke, the gameplay looks bland, the colors look garish, story looks fash, my bad

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                4 years ago

                fair enough, gameplay looks kinda fun to me and i dont do the whole masturbatory "politics in videogames" thing

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                    they are made by capitalist companies in a capitalist society to make money for capitalist shareholders
                    circlejerking about how lib/status quo/fash they are is definitely masturbatory

                    • s_p_l_o_d_e [they/them,he/him]
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                      4 years ago

                      I think it's more about addressing the inherent political biases in videogames (and how, like you said, because they are made by capitalist companies, they tend towards the right wing, and also tend towards authoritarian due to the prevalence of military-based games) rather than bemoaning games for not taking overt political stances.

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                    yes, I, a dyed in the wool communist, am complaining about "sjws" ruining muh videogames

                    that is definitely what is happening here

                    yep

                    totally

                      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                        i wasn't complaining, i was saying it is masturbatory, which it is

                        And there is a thread on this comm with people arguing that a basic accessibility option would ruin the artistic vision of a game with mass upbears, but I sound like a capital G...

                        Beyond parody