spemanig said:
What makes you so sure? Japan is an incredibly traditional, conservative, nationalistic culture. What makes you certain that most of them wouldn't feel uncomfortable that people were associating their culture with such negative connotations? Most of the things people are criticizing in cases like these are associated with otaku culture, which isn't something most of the population in Japan like or want to be associated with. And I want to be clear that I'm not trying to get into the semantics of what a JRPG is. That's not what this is about, and "too Japanese" isn't a criticism only or even mostly levied at JRPGs. I'm just saying to call a spade a spade. People need to stop hiding behind inaccurate, offensive generalizations. If you have a specific criticism, criticize it specifically. |
I attended a presentation by a middle aged woman married to a Japanese man. She specifically went over this type of thing. Japan is almost 100% Japanese, so racial issues are almost never brought up or discussed over there. Most Japanese people don't really care what foreigners think of them. False stereotypes from other countries are looked at mostly as jokes, and not seen as offensive over there.
I've read about three or four negative reviews on the game so far, and three positive reviews. The only review that generalizes is the Stevivor review, but that guy only wrote for a half a page. Could you find and point out these negative generalizations from one of the negative reviews?
