Repost from my Main Channel and TikTok. Genshin Impact released its teaser trailers for Natlan the region that is a combination of the Americas, Africa, and apparently Polynesia and Australia? If any other major Multibillion Dollar Company did that they would be canceled. Why does Hoyoverse get away with it?
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the comments literally making excuses, "its a gacha game!! other gachas are like this too", "they wont risk profit!!" and does that makes the racism acceptable? its not because there's a correlation to causation that makes the result okay. like if i set an orphanage on fire because there was a snake on it does it excuse the innocents i killed? lol
also, gacha is the monetization aspect, NOT the game. you dont open the game to gamble instantly, you PLAY the open world rpg parts of it. some of you people i dont know if you are ignoring things on purpose or are actually that stupid.
It's bad because it's not WuWa
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shut the hell up
I've only seen the teases they've shown, and honestly Natlan feels like Sumeru 2.0
we cannot keep letting hoyo's colourism slide
I think the especially flagrant thing is these characters are literally named after specific African, Indigenous American, and Polynesian figures while looking nothing like the people who created these myths and some are from active living faiths. Olorun, the Yoruba capital G creator God, is still worshiped to this day in Nigeria and elsewhere. Having his in game stand in be some pasty Sasuke wannabe is a seriously bad look. On the flip side, if Hoyo had a Norse inspired region with a Thor, Odin, Freyja, etc all represented by black or brown characters, the same people trying to downplay players' legitimate concerns over the pale Natlan cast would flip their shit. It's just an incredible double standard that stands out worse in a region that cribs from multiple bipoc cultures and doesn't even bother to change the names.
I kinda had a feeling people would talk about the fact that the characters are white instead of tan and this is major deja vu for me. I'm not surprised because of the Sumeru drama from two years ago and when people were judging Nahida pretty harshly for the skin tone and other characters. I kinda wish that most of them were tan especially the pryo archon that looks like to be whitewashed but I don't want to be those people to complain and start drama all over again. This is what we are getting I guess and there will be more characters in the future that could be tan but I wouldn't keep your hopes too high sooo we get what we get and we don't throw a fit :,) (I don't want to start any arguments here😓)
I’m Hispanic my skin is still on the lighter side but it’s darker then the Natlan characters smh
I think the characters are not exactly gonna be the main representation of the regions. As another commenter said “there’s nothing distinctly Chinese about keqing, Japanese about itto or even French about neuvilette” it’s mostly the land and scenery that represents the culture
The comments are the REASON why Genshin will never make an ACTUAL dark skinned character, because the amount of people defending Hoyo is INSANE 😭
Hey it's stupid people
Just don't play the game if you don't like cause I can guarantee they won't do anything about it.
China literally has 0.04 black people and this game is catered towards chinese people. Japan and china basically generate more revenue compared to international. And east asian people have crazy beauty standards specifically about skin colour.
Thank you so much for this! People are also telling those of us that aren't happy to leave the game! we cannot critique and enjoy a game at the same time, but when it's people crying about a characters boobs being smaller on release, then it's ok?
people like you make the world dirty
Everything went downhill since Yu-Peng Chen left
Whomp whomp 🐵
GO MAKE UR OWN GAME
Lolxx
THIS. if you want to represent different cultures then do it properly because that is the core backbone of such representation- otherwise, dont do it at all. but the problem with genshin is that they dont seemingly want cultural representation, they just want the aesthetics of it and its kind of disgusting. the way they tackle most cultures is not only underwhelming but also harmful because they tend to create non-sensical amalgamations of unrelated cultures just to extend their aesthetic options. and dont get me started on the fact that they are doing this to highly under-represented and misunderstood cultures. being a chinese company is one thing but if youre deliberately aiming for global media with a multimillion dollar budget, you gotta handle some responsibility that’s really not that hard to ensure. the job they’re doing is NOT good enough and even if there was effort, they might’ve as well done nothing at all with all the harmful and orientalist depictions theyre putting on display. its inconsiderate and exploitative, especially when its from one of the most widespread games out there.
It's a Chinese game. Almost all asian focused games lack of black ppl representation. For you it's mb looks like a racism, for them – cultural thing.
Don't support the game if you so upset. Because is not change, not in Genshin anyway. The game is almost over. 2 regions to go…
People need to remember that Archons were born and created in CELESTIA. Not THEIR REGIONS. that means that they do not have a need for them to be brown – while a white person can turn tan for a short time when out in sunshine, they cannot make themselves brown. therefore, lorewise, it would be a gap and that means that the archons wouldnt be from celestia. secondly, genshin never inspires themselves 100 percent of the regions. sumeru looks nothing like the middle east, mondstadt isnt really like germany and fontaine is definetely not like france ( environment wise ). not to mention we only got introduced 9 of the 17 characters in natlan, since hoyo confirmed theyre always making 17 characters per region.
Especially the guy inspired by africans 😮, anyway guy's head to the feedback section everyone's voice matters
I was so disappointed when I saw the rest of the characters in the trailer. it all seem so have done .
Someone Actually Made a Content on Melanin Lackness ,NAH GENSHIN TWITTER IS WILD 😭😭💀
yall care about more on the skin tone rather than the effort of genshin tryna put to show the aztec culture
I dont get how they can go so far with France and China, but when it comes to indigenous representation, it can only "go so far." Honestly, ever since I heard Natlan was going to be based on my culture, my cousin and I have been excited. It's so disappointing. Im sick of hearing the excuse "some of us are pale," yeah 'some.' I know, I'm light skin but im still darker than Xinyan AND Kaeya.