Probably overthinking a goofy anime game franchise but I find it interesting that they'd choose to combine Germany and Russia into one aggressor nation for their WWII facsimile soviet-hmm

I can't really call it liberal anti-communist brainworms though since the East Europan Imperial Alliance is more reminiscent of Imperial Germany than anything and I think the devs were consciously avoiding depicting anything even close to fascism or communism because Sega didn't want their wholesome anime WWII game to be political

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That didn't stop them from writing in a distrusted and hated minority that was sort of a stand-in for Jews though

I was looking for PSP games to check out and remembered Valkyria Chronicles went PSP exclusive after the first game. I played the first Valkyria Chronicles when it was released on PC a while back and while I enjoyed the turn-based tactical gameplay I sort of hated the game's aesthetics. I'm sorry, but I can't take your story about the horrors of war seriously when it's depicted in bright pastel colours and when everyone involved looks like a Pokemon trainer. Plucky child soldiers is also one of my most hated anime tropes

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    2 months ago

    Agreed, and I'll expand game universes with the legend of heroes series and its darling treatment towards the not German empire of Erebonia.

    Absolutely great time period to world build in with the industrial revolution just beginning and the transformation and transition of the Political economy from a decenteralized feudal agrarian mode of production towards proto-industrial despotism with bourgeoise elements slowly emerging to supplant the prior order - all of that is great lore writing combined with the lived-in feeling you get faffing about with NPCs living their daily lives. Like I get there really aren't that many countries that you can use as examples to sorta base your fictional industrializing countries on - and fuck the British and all that, get out of the lime light limey slimeys - but still, the fucking Germans? I guess you could say they've tried to balance it out with including a look into a post-revolutionary republican France with their newest releases. But this kinda just becomes a complaint about the germanify everything trope the Japanese love using if I keep ranting on about jt.