I'm tempted to find this guy, lock him in a room where a tv is playing an endless loop of the MOST Japanese I can find (like the Disgaea series, Bayonetta, Persona, Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, Yakuza, etc), and put a timer on seeing how long it takes until his head explodes.
Ever since last gen I couldn't help but notice this weird, xenophobic/ethnocentric undercurrent in gaming media that is not only tolerated but outright encouraged. And when you get down to it, nothing is earned from it; just from a purely gaming all it does is encourage homogenization, thus creating more and more samey games that damage the industry as a whole and thus ruins the whole point of it. Why exactly did the Western gaming community start to get this weird fear of Japan? And then of course the double standards pop up; GTA V gets a free pass for its blatant, unashamed misogyny while Dragon's Crown gets railed on for its intentionally exaggerated character design. The God of War series can be described as "I have issues with women" but goes gleefully ignored while Bayonetta is considered icky for having a female lead who embraces her sexuality. Sounds to me like the West needs to get over its awkward puberty phase because that's what I'm reminded of: an idiot teenager
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