There is a difference between criticizing the genre (which deserves it) and accusing the game of blindly committing racist sins of the genre (which is false in this case). This article is clearly about the latter, and you can see people have that takeaway in the comments here.
Mmm fair. I'm just not really going to fight someone too much if they do genuinely see it as racist or a depiction that just shouldn't be in at all. Like, I get it, I get that argument, I just think this particular one feels incredibly mild and somewhat well contextualised.
It feels a bit like this author wanted lots of stuff about Kowloon and its history to be in the game but it wasn't so it was a disappointment to them that it was only a visual inspiration and not the actual real Kowloon. This disappointment feels like it coloured their whole perspective.
I went in without any expectations and without really knowing the devs had named their site "hk-devblog" before the game was named "Stray" so I didn't even relate it to hk at first. I am guessing that it disappointed a bunch of people that it wasn't actually hk.
There is a difference between criticizing the genre (which deserves it) and accusing the game of blindly committing racist sins of the genre (which is false in this case). This article is clearly about the latter, and you can see people have that takeaway in the comments here.
Mmm fair. I'm just not really going to fight someone too much if they do genuinely see it as racist or a depiction that just shouldn't be in at all. Like, I get it, I get that argument, I just think this particular one feels incredibly mild and somewhat well contextualised.
It feels a bit like this author wanted lots of stuff about Kowloon and its history to be in the game but it wasn't so it was a disappointment to them that it was only a visual inspiration and not the actual real Kowloon. This disappointment feels like it coloured their whole perspective.
I went in without any expectations and without really knowing the devs had named their site "hk-devblog" before the game was named "Stray" so I didn't even relate it to hk at first. I am guessing that it disappointed a bunch of people that it wasn't actually hk.