Square Enix's Final Fantasy Next-Gen Tech Demo

[tifa]

Soooooooo Final Fantasy is looking even more racist and glorifying the white hero even more with the next installment in their series. They illustrate what seems to be West Asian men (or "Middle Eastern" as most like to say which makes no sense to me because Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and the countries in that area are not in the middle of Asia. /

Comments

[ladyelysium]

I'm getting a lot of "but that's how they are!"

Where have you seen that attitude? That's horrendous.

[tifa]

My Facebook "dudebro" friend's friends -_______- It's fucking atrocious. I should stop fighting people on Facebook. It's a no-win situation with these neanderthals.

[ladyelysium]

I'd hate to associate with anyone who held those opinions. Your friend must be seriously feeling some second-hand embarrassment right now. Ugh.

[ejia_arath03]

It's a tech demo. It doesn't look to be an actual upcoming game; likely Squeenix slapped the Final Fantasy name on it for recognition.

Also, I thought that heroes in JRPGs are thought of/presented as Japanese?

[salacious_pop]

yea, this is just a self-contained proof of concept trailer... but its content was still storyboarded and painstaking rendered by Square so, okay, its not a part of an actual Intellectual Property that will be flushed out, explored, published, but there's still a lot to dislike about it.

There was a rumor a few days ago that Final Fantasy XV will be announced at E3 but the leaked pic attached could have been shopped. Hopefully there is no correlation between XV and whatever this is.

[alethea79]

The FFXV thing was a prank. Someone took Final Fantasy Versus XIII footage and logo and changed it to say FFXV. They shot a video of people watching the footage in a generic auditorium with an announcer with an over-the-top super-fake stereotypical Japanese accent.

[ladyelysium]

Final Fantasy games have become terribly banal in town after town being implausibly huge, spacious, pretty, and clean.

FFXIII-2 wasn't like that at all.

[alethea79]

Considering how almost all FF games go -- the main character works for the "empire" or some equivalent and ends up siding with the resistance and/or "enemy," and the first enemy you see is rarely the real enemy you end up fighting -- the insurgents would probably be the heroes in the end with the female character switching to their side if this were a real game. Some FF fans would recognize the formula and parse it as such (this fan did, at least).

[tifa]

COPY-PASTA HERE TOO XD (seriously, I'm gonna be using that phrase from now on <33)

That's very true...but then again, I've only played all the way through one game and I'm about halfway through FFXII (it's soooo loooong but gooood). That was one of the ideas I got and I'm hoping that's the case if this is going to be turned into a game. But this is a tech demo so I don't even know if they will turn it into a game. If they don't, this was a poor example to use...but I don't know. So many possibilities.

[alias_sqbr]

I'm going to assume the hero is meant to be Japanese, not white. But other than that I agree, the villains were pure bigoted stereotype. Meanwhile most other tech demos I've seen have been objectifying of women, which this one wasn't at least. What is it with tech demos?

[tifa]

re: Japanese hero - clicky clicky :3

Yeaaaaaaaaaah...I don't even know how to answer that -_- I'm guessing there aren't a whole lot of minorities working on tech demos -_-

[alethea79]

The white old guy is pretty creepy, actually. I got the impression that neither side would be considered "good." It's all pretty ambiguous.

[tifa]

Again, truth; he's definitely the creepiest character in the tech demo x_x