• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      60·
      2 months ago

      It’s because it looks to be a genuinely good game based on a classic novel called Journey to the West, and it getting people around the world interested in Chinese culture. This is directly challenging the US cultural hegemony, and hence westoids are losing it.

        • Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 months ago

          Sun Wukong is way stronger than Son Goku though, at least for all of Dragon Ball and pre SSJ DBZ.

          Honestly Sun Wukong could probably hold his own against SS1 Goku, the guy could SOMERSAULT 30000 miles in one bound. I’m sure that’s like… pretty strong, probably able to Zwee Fight. Not that he’d even need to, since he can also turn invisible and Goku would be like “nani??”

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            10·
            2 months ago

            I made this an age ago, idk why even, but afaik Monkey King is possibly the most immortal character in fiction. He just keeps stumbling tits-forward in to newer, more durable ways to be immortal until he reaches the point that literally the only entity left that can stop him is the Buddha. idk if Goku could beat Super Man or my dad but he could definitely not beat the Buddha.

            Like Goku is a cool dude and probably the best fighter ever, except that Monkey King punched so good he attained Buddhahood as the Victorious Fighting Buddha and it’s not fair to even hold Goku to that.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        36·
        2 months ago

        Wasn’t there a chud contigent seeing it as “anti woke” though, including some stoking of that from its devs?

        Maybe I misheard.

        • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          37·
          2 months ago

          yeah there’ something about anti-wokers initially trying to pump it up because of reports about the devs behaviour/internal culture or something, but that’s now subsiding as they’re realising that they’ve pumped up a nice looking game about chinese folklore and therefore have promoted understanding of the designated enemy

        • NewAcctWhoDis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          2 months ago

          Supposedly people who got review keys were sent an email forbidding talking about a handful of topics during reviews, mostly reasonable political stuff but also “feminist propaganda” https://archive.ph/A1s65

          At first I was kind of skeptical whether it was real but now I’d lean towards “yes”

    • Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      I haven’t noticed that.

      Mostly it’s chuds jerking off to its sales numbers in China and the company telling streamers not to talk about feminism being “based”

      It looks like a fine God of War game with very good graphics.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      It’s cool. Miyazaki has spent ten years ruthlessly training me how to parry his bullshit. if I can parry that fucking bull I can parry his bullshit, whatever he said.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        I like some of his takes, like the one about how it’s important to actually observe living beings instead of just making fan copies of fan copies of some old cartoon based upon a living being from a long time ago in a way that makes anime derivative and repetitive instead of a fresh experience.

        • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          Wrong Miyazaki.

          Though I like pointing out that Hayao “I’d rather be a pig than a fascist” Miyazaki, in case it wasn’t obvious from his work, is a doomer Marxist/Maoist, despises the US and was a big Union man in the 60s and 70s. 🫡