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I’ve been watching a gameplay video of Spider-Man 2, and I’ve seen enough wokeness in the first 2 hours to convince me that Sony is beyond redemption and can’t make a game without injecting wokeness every 5 minutes.
The first thing that happens is in an early mission where some multiracial street gang is robbing a gun club. Peter goes on a ridiculous anti-gun tirade about how gun clubs don’t belong in the city and how we need “complement clubs” instead. Yeah, Peter, it’s real easy for you to say that no one needs guns when you’re a superhero that can eat bullets and punch through brick walls.
Then, Peter gets cucked hard by MJ (who is now a butter face), she refuses to move in with him, so she can “focus on her career” and then gives Harry a kiss on the cheek (and Peter a kiss on the cheek too rather than the lips).
Not long after, Harry offers Peter a job at Oscorps new science facility, which is focused on utopian liberal projects like developing GMO crops (oh, and the game has a throwaway line about these GMO crops being “ethical”) and climate engineering.
Just like God of War 2018, this is a case of developers making a good original game and then turning the wokeness dial to 11 in the sequel. I’ve loved Spider-Man since I was a kid and really liked the 2018 Spider-Man game, but I’m steering far clear of this game. Keep in mind that this is just based on the first 2 or so hours of the game; I shudder to imagine what monstrosities are lurking in the rest of the game. Sony, Insomniac, you suck.
Other woke elements: JJ Jameson is even more of a “conservative” caricature, all the villains or soon-to-be villains so far are white males, the principal of Miles school is a sassy black woman with no hair, the game forces a deaf black girl with zero personality as Miles love interest.
EDIT: For those coming across this thread just now: Yes, there is even more wokeness as the game goes on. The college fair Miles goes to has a Planned Parenthood booth advertising abortion services to teenagers. There's an entire mission where Miles is simping for Black Cat and helping her escape with her girlfriend to Paris. Ukraine flags everywhere. Characters have been uglified, Mary Jane in particular looks like she just got a facial reconstruction from Mr. Magoo.
I can't respond to everyone, so here is my response to the most common midwit comment I see defending this game: Basic pattern recognition skills go a long way in realizing how far the overton window has been pushed in gaming. Using woke newspeak in an unironic context makes you woke.
The first thing that happens is in an early mission where some multiracial street gang is robbing a gun club. Peter goes on a ridiculous anti-gun tirade about how gun clubs don’t belong in the city and how we need “complement clubs” instead. Yeah, Peter, it’s real easy for you to say that no one needs guns when you’re a superhero that can eat bullets and punch through brick walls.
Then, Peter gets cucked hard by MJ (who is now a butter face), she refuses to move in with him, so she can “focus on her career” and then gives Harry a kiss on the cheek (and Peter a kiss on the cheek too rather than the lips).
Not long after, Harry offers Peter a job at Oscorps new science facility, which is focused on utopian liberal projects like developing GMO crops (oh, and the game has a throwaway line about these GMO crops being “ethical”) and climate engineering.
Just like God of War 2018, this is a case of developers making a good original game and then turning the wokeness dial to 11 in the sequel. I’ve loved Spider-Man since I was a kid and really liked the 2018 Spider-Man game, but I’m steering far clear of this game. Keep in mind that this is just based on the first 2 or so hours of the game; I shudder to imagine what monstrosities are lurking in the rest of the game. Sony, Insomniac, you suck.
Other woke elements: JJ Jameson is even more of a “conservative” caricature, all the villains or soon-to-be villains so far are white males, the principal of Miles school is a sassy black woman with no hair, the game forces a deaf black girl with zero personality as Miles love interest.
EDIT: For those coming across this thread just now: Yes, there is even more wokeness as the game goes on. The college fair Miles goes to has a Planned Parenthood booth advertising abortion services to teenagers. There's an entire mission where Miles is simping for Black Cat and helping her escape with her girlfriend to Paris. Ukraine flags everywhere. Characters have been uglified, Mary Jane in particular looks like she just got a facial reconstruction from Mr. Magoo.
I can't respond to everyone, so here is my response to the most common midwit comment I see defending this game: Basic pattern recognition skills go a long way in realizing how far the overton window has been pushed in gaming. Using woke newspeak in an unironic context makes you woke.
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