#representation

Disability representation!!

I was lazy and used old drawings for this

(only for the tutorial and first two missions. PLAY THE GAME!!)

I know for a fact the one-star Steam grifters heard the opening music and were more offended than they already were 🤣 DON'T LET THE RACIST LOSERS WIN! Leave good reviews!!

The music!! It's just getting me, it is. I love it.

It's certainly got a lot of atmosphere!

It looks smoother on PC than on TV (we ported it to the tv for comforts sake), but not bad. Very stylized. I wasn't pressed.

Voice acting is a joy, loving the accents, loving that Black Africans and places IN Africa are central to the plot. Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, and more.

Big sister coming through for little brother as the intro, classic.

The tutorial is really simple. Good for beginners, assuming you've ever played a game before.

Nomali- the Lady MC- is "All Africa Free Running Champion"- you are in good parkour hands 👍🏾

You can take easier or harder routes through the platforms, but you will get through it. You can try multiple ways, if you want! Just gotta plan it! It'll even show you some of the Whole platform.

It's a very pretty game! Very vibrant. People have been taught to imagine places in Africa as dirt huts, poverty, and misery (and we know why) and not a place full of life and culture. I like how this counteracts that mentality. And Afrofuturism!!!

We meet Feng (Chinese), Etienne (French), Annie (Afrikaner) showing that other people do interact and are still present! It's just not about you. I've been wondering if Ndedi is Afro-Chinese, but I'm sure I'll find out with time.

I love that their elder and leader is "Koko" Grace, which in Maa (Maasai) means Grandmother.

LOVING all the hair styles!!

I love that it tells you about the places that we are taking the items back for. For example, the first item is to take the Silver Buffalo back for the kingdom of Dahomey (dow-oh-mee), and it tells you where it is (modern day Benin), and different details about its colonization (French) and its value. AS WELL as where you're going to retrieve it (i.e. who currently has it).

It's not even just the African artifacts! The game will tell you about artifacts globally that were commandeered by Western museums. There has been an Indian artifact, and there was a Brazilian and Haitian one in the demo. So EVERYBODY gets a little representation, artifact wise!

YOU CAN STEAL MORE THAN OME ARTIFACT AT ONCE! Depending on your skill level. And it'll tell you about the person, their country, and a history fact. This is an educational game! It's really my favorite part, that you get to learn about the items we're taking back. I can absolutely tell why the "we hate Woke™ colored people" crowd would try to review-bomb this game.

I wouldn't call it an "easy" game. It's still a puzzle game! Take your time!

It’s just repackaged misognoir. Black women are seen as more masculine, and that they can’t be dainty or elegant or feminine. Please name me a rich girl character that is black. Mhm, I thought so.

and the fact people are talking about how she looks “recolored” disgusts me. First off, it’s a design aspect. Her skin contrasts her lighter colors. And second off, you clearly just have one image of what black women are.

while there is absolutely something around how many of Pokémon’s black characters look racially ambiguous, you also should fucking think about the fact that Pokemon is a franchise dominated by pale white characters, anything is EVERYTHING.

and again, black feminine girls exist.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk💜

EDIT: I’ve been made aware tumblr has marked this as mature content. While I’m disappointed, I am not surprised. Take this as evidence of tumblr’s racism.