Cyberpunk 2077 is not fun: a thread Thanks to someone generously lending it to me, I’ve been playing for the past couple of days. As a Japanese person, its really been nothing but bad vibes for me. I’ll list them in no particular order below:
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I have yet to see a Japanese character without a thick Japanese accent, even though Japanese Americans don't all have accents. I understand that Japanese immigrants exist, but are you seriously telling me that there are no Japanese main characters with neutral accents?
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The saving grace is that the Japanese VO is surprisingly good. When Tyger Claws goons talk in Japanese, I actually feel like a bunch of ヤンキー are talking. But of all the things to get true-to-life, again, why does it have to be the things that portray JP in a bad light?
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It's the small things like the incense, the VO, the samurai top-knots, and the objectification of Japanese people that makes it absolutely exhausting to play the game. Because as a Japanese person, to immerse myself I need to ignore all these things.
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And being an open-world game whose core offering is customization and leading a life you want to live, immersion is pretty fuckin' important. Which made me realize: Cyberpunk isn't made for me. It's made for white westerners that can't see the small inconsistencies.
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It’s made for the white people that want to revel in the Japantowns, the Little Chinas, the high-end hotels called something “exotic” like “Konpeki” (TN: Konpeki means “blue sky”) My companion literally called Yakisoba “exotic.”
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To play Cyberpunk 2077 as a Japanese person is to subject yourself to countless cultural inconsistencies and objectification, and attempt to suspend your disbelief by saying “its part of the world building” or “they’re non-Japanese devs, so I should give them a pass”
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Exactly this. The core issue of the game is that it portrays stereotypes of minorities, without commenting on whether or not said stereotype is good or bad.https://twitter.com/redwing546/status/1338453367836774401?s=20 …
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And in how many games are russian the bad guy, or movies? Same goes for Arabs. Man, don't take it so personally, cdpr are not Americans, political correctness goes out the door when they make games and that my friend, is very refreshing. I'm certain they mean no harm.
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Other people and media engaging in shitty stereotypes does not make it okay. Also treating people and cultures with a modicum of respect isn't political correctness. It's basic human decency.
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I take all the points about the restaurants & bars trading in tropes, but every mega corp is supposed to be an antagonist. That's the point. Why is Arasaka of particular interest is just the game's lore and cyberpunk tropes in general.
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