New FFXIII bundle revealed for Japan

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twesterm said:

Machina said:

twesterm said:

That is awesome, but not because it's FFXIII. It's awesome because it's just ridiculously stupid.  I'm actually surprised he's holding something other than a grape soda.

This has been reported a couple of times for racism and I think people are getting completely the wrong end of the stick here. I'm certain twesterm was not being racist, but was actually wrly pointing out the rascist undertones of the game itself.

Hopefully this clarifies that a bit.

lol, yeah, wasn't trying to sound racist there and cause trouble, just what you said. :-p

I was going to go back and edit it but it already got quoted and I assumed reported so left it alone and prepared my no I'm not racist! fighting gloves.  >_>

I fully support twesterm in this. I think this character is an attrocious racial stereotype. The more fun that's poked at the ridiculousness of the cliche that this character is the better in my view. It's better than getting all self righteous about it. The very first trailer I saw of FFXIII made me cringe so badly because of the representation of this character, he might as well have been a black and white minstrel. It was surely a -1 in my estimation of the game.

But I'm a whitey, so I stand to be accused of overwrought, liberal hand-wringing, over-reaction to this. I'd like to know what the African / African-Americans among gamers think about this character.

Personally, if there was going to be racial diversity put into this game then someone more in the mold of Morpheus would have been cooler to model the "token black male" on. Maybe the character development of this character through the game will end up being pretty solid and he will turn out to be not so much of a sterotype. The image on the game case kinda says otherwise though, don't ya reckon?