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Crash 4's Japan levels look awful (hexbear.net)
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In the sense that nothing about the architecture or art really evokes Japan at all other than that it looks vaguely Asian. (Some bits feel more Chinese than anything.) This is a big budget 2020 game with art done by contracted artists from all over the world, you'd think they'd be able to get a little closer than this, especially with how overexposed Japanese culture has been for a long while now

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[-] bastionntb@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Orientalism. That's the word you're looking for. The game was made by orientalists.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

It's just wild to me that a game this modern would fall back on generic vaguely Asian slurry. I'd expect this from a game from the 90s but even the China levels in Crash 3 felt more like China than this does Japan

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

It's just wild to me that a game this modern would fall back on generic vaguely Asian slurry. I'd expect this from a game from the 90s but even the China levels in Crash 3 felt more like China than this does Japan

With the rise of LLMs and assorted treat printer gimmicks, I expect this problem to get even worse, especially for background and filler imagery but eventually entire games at this rate.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Ironically, an LLM would probably make something that would look more convincingly Japanese at a glance

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

You may be right, though from what I tried to get out of them for cover pictures, the first few attempts would have unprompted waifu tits on buildings. hentai-free

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

miyazaki-pain had words to say about how copy of a copy art from people that don't observe actual things but just consume products and want to make more products lead to really bleak and bland products.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

This just feels really lazy and clueless to me, like how a comic from the 1970s would depict an Asian country

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I used to think bandicoots were made up for the game

look how cute they are

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

90 percent of kids in the 90s just thought he was a fox

[-] Dickey_Butts@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly I wouldn't have even guessed this is supposed to be Japan. I think the wonky towers in the back look kind of neat.

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

That is about the bare minimum for having assets in the level...

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was from a level intro before crates and enemies were spawned in, so it's not quite this barren when you're playing

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

But is it worse than the Crash 3 China levels

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

hey I loved riding a tiger along the great wall

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

They at least read as "China," same with the Arabian, ancient Egyptian, etc levels

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