[ SECRET POST #2135 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2135 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

just like white people will default to interpreting any and all characters in fiction to be white unless explicitly denied, an asian audience will default to asian. hence why even your average blue-eyed weird-haired character in anime won't make an asian audience go "wtf I can't relate to someone like that" - if there are no exaggerated 'white' markers, then they won't think white. obviously, square enix is also aware of this and design accordingly.

to be honest Wutai just looks like Japan going for explicit and exaggerated 'asian' markers so that players know that this place is specifically an asian part of the world. but that doesn't really mean the rest will be interpreted specifically as white - just not Very Asian. I'd argue that even the european architecture and names won't twig asian audiences because they're going to be used to that and will just see them as having 'RPG' names and environments.

idk it's just really not as simplistic as you're making it seem. it's different for a western audience, arguably, because we KNOW the makers of these games come from a different place and have different defaults. but this is japanese gaming made by japanese people primarily thinking purely about their japanese audience.


remember XII? square enix have said that they tried really, really hard to make sure those characters were Very European. that seems to be their only attempt to explicitly render their characters as markedly white even though light-haired light-eyed square enix characters are in every game. these ones were *european* light-haired light-eyed characters.