![]() Check out the post for more details this jam will run through the month of February. ![]() In contrast, games that DO have black female characters but are written in a different style (and quality) do not get this criticism.The first thing I want to talk about this week is that Critical Distance is hosting another writing/video essay jam! This time, we’re welcoming submissions in any medium with the theme of First Foot Forward: player agency as explored through the first choice a player makes in a game. And the connective.tissue to those games isn't that they are all diverse main characters - it's the similar writing. You are trying to protect your opinion as "correct" by putting it on a moral high ground compared to everyone disagreeing with you, who PROBABLY didn't even play it or, if they did, the probably just didn't like the fact that the protagonist was a black woman.Īnd it's quite frustrating because, by the existence of this very thread you should realize that there are MANY games being criticized Forspoken was being laughed at, the writing. You are doing exactly that, though - by very directly connecting criticism and negative reactions to Forspoken's writing to biases against a black, female main character. I'm not implying you to have ulterior motives for saying so. I'm not saying you can't love the game, it's writing or it's main character. It's a narrative supported by dozens and dozens of reviews criticizing the game for it's writing, too.Īnd no one is taking your opinion from you. One of the most iconic quotes of the Dark Knight is "I'm not wearing hockey pads." Spiderman 1 is full of jokes you wouldn't catch as a kid. ![]() Like even The Hulk 2008's final fight scene had Hulk non verbally saying "I'm so tired of this shit" when the villain came back after being BTFO. Like, even going back to the MCU, exactly WHAT do people think comic book writing was like pre-2008? Or even comic book movie writing. By the time the MCU started we had gotten several parodies of big budget action adventure tropes which do include, the staple of quips that existed before a lot of this forum was born. However, such trends already existed for more than twice as long as the MCU has. Media reflects not just the current times we live in but also reactions to the media created years prior. People have influences during their formative years and during adulthood. Writing rooms are not filled with people who're outright ignoring other media. Be fearless! Stick your chest out! Look at these characters that I thought looked dope enough that I put them at the top of this blog post! Stop no-selling them!Ĭlick to shrink.As I said earlier, yes, SOME media created today is influenced by the MCU, that's inevitable. I'm here for the artifice! I'm on board for ominious rhyming god-queens, and I'm not sure why Frey-for whom this is not artifice, and instead is her life, is not on board for it.Īll of which is to say that for me, it's not so much that "the writing is cringe." It's that Frey herself is cringing, and by proxy there is a sense that the writers are doing the same.Īnd listen, fellow writers: You do not need to take this defensive posture! You do not need to hit your finishing move in the middle of the ring, get the three count, and then look at the camera and say "you know this is fake, right?" You do not need to ensure the audience that you also get that this stuff isn't that serious. People call this type of dialog Whedon-esque a lot, though the Marvel example I think of the most is that bit in the most recent Spider-Man where MCU Peter and his friends laugh at the idea of someone named "Doctor Otto Octavius." Both of these lines-and a great deal of similar smirking, snarking, wink-at-the-camera style comedy-miss for me in the same way: They feel ashamed of the world that the lines are being spoken in.īut the thing is: When I sign up to go to the mystical world of Athia, ruled by four sorcerous Tantas and cursed by mysterious blight. She isn't just being flippant, she's lampshading the artifice of this situation, calling attention to (and dismissing) the absurdity of a sorceress-queen who speaks in rhyme. "Shit, alright, if you're gonna rhyme everything, just kill me now," responds Frey, hands in shackles.
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