Ghost of Yōtei

Edit: Meh, joke pointing out that this is abbreviated as GoY was bad, but it's still funny that it's GoY.

TomServo said:

Turtle power

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The game is made by the same team and the parameters you can change in such a game to not make it more of the same are limited. You change the place, you change the time and you change the protagonist. It also should be reminded that japanese devs were very surprised and in a way jealous of the way the main character was written in the first game. Having a middle-aged, unremarkable man as protagonist is just not a thing that can be done in Japan. We can be confident this same team will also avoid stereotypes in this sequel. But now, if you want to be all pissy because of who they hired as the english VA no sensible person will ever hear in the game (who would use english voices for a game set in Japan?), feel free.

Szlia said:

(who would use english voices for a game set in Japan?)

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Literally everyone that isn’t a weeb faggot

Oh look, another franchise that has been ruined by activists.

Ritley said:

Literally everyone that isn’t a weeb faggot

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Szlia recommending/defending something is the kiss of death.

Sinistkir13 said:

1. Successful new IP starring male protagonist
2. Western Commiefornian studio under Soyny
3. Sequel with unnecessarily long, suspicious time skip
4. Featuring new female protagonist
5. Pretends that there were female ronin running amok wrecking adult male warriors
6. Hires a liberal American whackjob with more pronouns than brain cells as the voice actor
7. Sweet Baby Infection
   
   

Yeah, under normal circumstances, like circa 2005, I wouldn't see a reason to bat an eye, but the pattern has been established enough that the red flags just aren't worth giving anyone the benefit of the doubt these days.

Like Lanx said earlier, they had plenty of choices for voice actors and could have ideally gotten an actual Japanese woman instead of some parasite.

We've regressed this far because too many people refused to gatekeep and shame people for their shit taste.

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It truly feels like Sony is trying to speedrun the demise of the Playstation brand and fanbase. It's like they spent all these years building it up just to hand it over to a bunch of activists and have them ruin any goodwill fans gave them.