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our age of dragon is collapsing

gotta say a lot of the response to valid criticisms of fields of mistria from fans feels very "let people enjoy things" rather than like. actual responding to analysis. this is yalls "witch in the alps" game. yall seem so afraid of the fact that this media might have some uncomfortable biases in its design.

its so annoying that the discussion around Juniper is about how much skin she's showing and there's not a SINGLE person bringing up the clear orientalism that went into her design. dark and mysterious sorceress wearing a lot of dangly gold jewelry and revealing outfits doing experiments on unsuspecting townsfolk? HELLO???? Regardless of the devs' intentions they literally made her one of THE OLDEST orientalist tropes. come on y'all.

tbh just in general there should be more critical discussion around the orientalism of a US-made game so blatantly taking inspiration from '90s and '00s anime & Japanese gaming. It's a game playing with the aesthetics of nostalgia, it's going to be FULL of design biases from that era unless they explicitly go out of their way to counter that. and i dont think ive seen much intentionality in that regard

dont get me wrong, I'dd love to play fields of mistria and be proven wrong. I'd love to finish that game and go "wow, this was a cute game that thoroughly and critically examined the biases of the media it was inspired by and the problems inherent in the 'wholesome farm sim' game genre. but everything im seeing so far is not inspiring confidence.

gotta say a lot of the response to valid criticisms of fields of mistria from fans feels very "let people enjoy things" rather than like. actual responding to analysis. this is yalls "witch in the alps" game. yall seem so afraid of the fact that this media might have some uncomfortable biases in its design.

its so annoying that the discussion around Juniper is about how much skin she's showing and there's not a SINGLE person bringing up the clear orientalism that went into her design. dark and mysterious sorceress wearing a lot of dangly gold jewelry and revealing outfits doing experiments on unsuspecting townsfolk? HELLO???? Regardless of the devs' intentions they literally made her one of THE OLDEST orientalist tropes. come on y'all.

tbh just in general there should be more critical discussion around the orientalism of a US-made game so blatantly taking inspiration from '90s and '00s anime & Japanese gaming. It's a game playing with the aesthetics of nostalgia, it's going to be FULL of design biases from that era unless they explicitly go out of their way to counter that. and i dont think ive seen much intentionality in that regard

Is there a word for occupying the space where normies think you're a freak and freaks think you're a normie?

gotta say a lot of the response to valid criticisms of fields of mistria from fans feels very "let people enjoy things" rather than like. actual responding to analysis. this is yalls "witch in the alps" game. yall seem so afraid of the fact that this media might have some uncomfortable biases in its design.

its so annoying that the discussion around Juniper is about how much skin she's showing and there's not a SINGLE person bringing up the clear orientalism that went into her design. dark and mysterious sorceress wearing a lot of dangly gold jewelry and revealing outfits doing experiments on unsuspecting townsfolk? HELLO???? Regardless of the devs' intentions they literally made her one of THE OLDEST orientalist tropes. come on y'all.

tbh just in general there should be more critical discussion around the orientalism of a US-made game so blatantly taking inspiration from '90s and '00s anime & Japanese gaming. It's a game playing with the aesthetics of nostalgia, it's going to be FULL of design biases from that era unless they explicitly go out of their way to counter that. and i dont think ive seen much intentionality in that regard

gotta say a lot of the response to valid criticisms of fields of mistria from fans feels very "let people enjoy things" rather than like. actual responding to analysis. this is yalls "witch in the alps" game. yall seem so afraid of the fact that this media might have some uncomfortable biases in its design.

its so annoying that the discussion around Juniper is about how much skin she's showing and there's not a SINGLE person bringing up the clear orientalism that went into her design. dark and mysterious sorceress wearing a lot of dangly gold jewelry and revealing outfits doing experiments on unsuspecting townsfolk? HELLO???? Regardless of the devs' intentions they literally made her one of THE OLDEST orientalist tropes. come on y'all.