Black can? Red coffee bean that sorta looks like lips? CLEARLY BLACK FACE. RACISM CONFIRMED. Seriously, talk about massive leaps in logic. Idiots like this breed.
But the grape juice can next to it? I mean, come on. That's no coincidence. Plus the red coffee bean could've easily been brown instead. Let's not pretend racism doesn't exist here. And I'm not saying that it's definite, I'm posing it as a question.
that is super weird but like, there's also no black people I have seen thus far in any FFXV trailer not that Square has a great track record for racial representation, though this can thing is different from being uninclusive I don't really know histories if race in Japan, I find it odd that they would be including very Western stereotypes abt black people maybe this is what they meant when they said they were creating a more westernized game
I haven't really read any commentary about Sazh because I have a kind of blanket dislike of the XIII series but I'd be interested to hear your take on him
Naw, I've only made it about half-way through FFXIII and he's mostly a good character who just wants back his son. I just used him as an example because he has a little chocobo buddy who looks a lot like a baby chicken, and I'm sure you can make the connection from there.
Afaik some games, often from Japan (just bc of different cultural perspectives/influences, and I'm sure it can happen elsewhere) have a track record for including designs/elements that could be misconstrued as racist overseas, even if they were (hopefully) intended to be innocuous/weren't interpreted that way at all in Japan itself... Off the top of my head, both the designs of Oil Man from Mega Man Powered Up & the Skull Kid from Zelda had to be altered for overseas release, due to a resemblance to blackface/racist caricatures. :v My gut reaction is that this might be a similar case, or that's what I'd like to believe I guess. But everyone's got different perspectives obviously.
