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>>723696819
It was trying to make a point more than tell a story by the time you reach the last arc the allegory became so heavy-handed that it wrestled with the gameplay for my attention and it just felt draining.
There were a number of instances where it implied tropes. Being heavily female-coded. Most of the men she meets being either incompetent, vile, or broken in a sense where she had to finish the job they didn't have the courage to finish. But where it became apparent where she meets her Samurai brother's daughter. She is strong-headed, hates feminine things. Always out-thinks men around her, wants to be a fighter, speaks with authority and intellect you'll seldom find in any gender even today, let alone in a girl in 1600s Japan. It's too heavy handed. children are often insightful and more clever than their age would imply, being able to gleam the spark of truth where adults might overlook it due to being jaded or hardened with time. But an anachronistic mary sue is a little too on the nose. I had reservations about getting Yotei, but Ghost of Tsushima had built enough good will with me that I was willing to go into it believing they were going to do the right thing but the game is incredibly heavily female-coded in the worst way and women are often written as genderswapped men. If this is something you can't or refuse to see, then there's no point talking to you. But if this is something you refuse to acknowledge, then you're just a basic troll.
>>723697164
No, I don't. I don't need to watch a trainwreck to be able to acknwledge that car crashes are good. You don't need to play X before criticizing Y because you should criticize works on their own merits, not in contrast to other failures.
