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Oct. 14th, 2022 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariWhen I played Etrian Odyssey Untold, I thought there was a rather short jump from “we need to save the infected forest folk” to “the forest folk can’t be cured, so we need to end their misery” to “if we kill enough forest folk, we can cut off their wings to craft a new hat.” Well, Untold was a remake/rewrite of the first game. I just read TV Tropes:
“The first game's infamous 4th stratum directly references the genocide of the Ainu, with the names of the Forest Folk and their bosses being directly derived from Ainu culture. While this was intended as a satire of the colonialist themes common in fantasy fiction, the English version did a Dub Name Change for all of these except for the two bosses, possibly to lessen the unpleasant implications of the game making your party commit genocide against allegories for real-world indigenous peoples.”
What the fuck. I mean, I get that it’s essentially the same joke as The Iron Dream, but still, what the fuck.
“The first game's infamous 4th stratum directly references the genocide of the Ainu, with the names of the Forest Folk and their bosses being directly derived from Ainu culture. While this was intended as a satire of the colonialist themes common in fantasy fiction, the English version did a Dub Name Change for all of these except for the two bosses, possibly to lessen the unpleasant implications of the game making your party commit genocide against allegories for real-world indigenous peoples.”
What the fuck. I mean, I get that it’s essentially the same joke as The Iron Dream, but still, what the fuck.
