The reveal for Ghost of Yotei was one of the biggest reveals during the recent PlayStation state of play. Featuring a new protagonist, Ghost of Yotei is set to tell a new origin story that takes place over 400 years from the original game. Unfortunately, a certain section has started criticizing the game over the gender of the protagonist.
Ghost of Yotei will be introducing a female lead who will take on the role of ‘Ghost’ contrary to the male lead in Ghost of Tsushima. The character named Atsu will be played by Erika Ishii who is a well-known name in the video game industry with several high profile roles.
Fans may know Ishii for playing the role of Ana Bray in Destiny 2, the reporter Ruth Dzeng in Cyberpunk 2077, Valkyrie in Apex Legends and the voice behind several other popular video game characters.
The controversy is further fuelled by the ongoing issue with the representation of gender or sexual minorities inside video games and Ishii who use ‘they’ as pronouns. This rabbit hole goes even deeper, but for now, those protesting are asking for the main protagonist from the original game to be back, which is kind of impossible.
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Old protagonist and historical inaccuracies?
The original game took place in 1274 while Ghost of Yotei is set in 1603 which will make the original protagonist, Jin Sakai, a real ghost. People went on to bring the historical inaccuracy card despite the developer revealing just the trailer with more information about the world, which looks similarly breathtaking as the original game, and the characters are yet to be revealed.
However, the argument on the historical inaccuracies becomes null due to the existence of evidence regarding female warriors in Japan existing as far back as 1180–1185 during The Genpei War. The racial argument isn’t applicable, as Atsu is portrayed as a Japanese female warrior.
Those citing video game failures to wokeness fail to see that the real issue of why these games fail are lot more complicated. Games like Concord failed due to an oversaturated market for live service games, while Star Wars Outlaw was launched exclusively on Ubisoft Connect with bad optimization and bugs and glitches leading to bad sales.
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