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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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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A girl who sells clothes doesn't have an accent and she says that some times she puts it on so tourists will buy her clothes. But she is hardly w character, she has only a few lines, and I don't remember if she even has a name.
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Not that this defends any of the other stuff which is all fucked, but I think that’s because most of the Japanese characters are from Japan and not Japanese-Americans (or Japanese North Californians, I guess)
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Yeah like all the Arasaka family is from Japan not Japanese American, same with a lot of their higher ups. I think though that the Tyger Claws should have been a bit more neutral accented though since they’re supposed to be a local gang.
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