Ah, so it's window dressing for the time period. That makes sense. Should they have edited out that part of the episode, probably, but I don't think it's as controversial as this thread wants it to be. If anything, it inadvertently shows how rotten the utopia/(and Soviet society, and anywhere else that would have had such cartoons) actually was for the time.
Yeah, the fridge sucks. Even literally every character in the game hates the thing, thankfully it seems like it's only there for the first few hours of the game.
This is my first time hearing the protagonist speak in English, and yeah that's awful. He's a fair bit better in Russian.
Bioshock but set in 1950s Soviet Russia.
Ah, so Atomic Heart is a scathing critique of the Soviet Union and its underpinning ideas then?
Infinite was hella overt with America being racist in the past but destroys any meaningful message once they go into "what if the vox populi get in power" therefor both sides can be just as bad.
Here's the review thread:
www.resetera.com
No, but it plays like a mish mash of Bioshock, Dying Light and Far Cry.
It's not something exclusively Eastern European. The Netherlands has an entire holiday revolving around blackface. It's a widespread problem in many European countries still.
Here's the review thread:
Atomic Heart Review Thread
OpenCritic - 74 Metacritic - 75 Atomic Heart PS5 Review 6/10 https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/atomic-heart Powerup Gaming https://powerup-gaming.com/2023/02/21/atomic-heart-review-pc-from-russia-with/ Review in Progress We got this covered 4 / 5 Stars...
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Maybe the Russian voice acting is less wooden (hard not to be) but it's the goofy tone that makes it weird. Like his voice and his words don't match. I'm guessing the game was originally written in Russian and certain bits don't translate well.
I get what you're saying and I generally agree, but I think there's a big difference between re-releasing movies pretending they were never racist and just editing out a 1-second scene in a cartoon most people will never even see in-game. I don't think the latter is whitewashing, it's just a harmless edit to remove some offensive stuff that's not relevant at all to the rest of the cartoon/game.
I think when you're in the kind of situations gaming protagonists are in you're less likely to be like "HOLY FUCK WHAT THE FUCK" at everything after a while. Even just like "oh shit!" and maybe even a "what the fuck!" and end it at that is better than "holy fuck fuck me what the fuck let me go you fucking bitch" or whatever. Just starts to feel like edgy writer being edgy.
Huh... Thank you for the context.
Have you read the reviews? Near all of them universally say the writing and main character are awful. Some of them even explicitly say its worse then Forspoken. The only reason it isn't being talked about as much is because the developers were smart enough to not feature the main character talking a ton in their advertisements.
A lot of reviewers literally have been criticizing Atomic Heart for its writing though.
You and I must have read very different threads here.
Oh for sure. Of course racism exists everywhere it's just worth pointing out its not uniform in character between wildly different countries.
The tweet itself takes the game out of context. It uses real world material from the Soviet Union. Another user pointed this out.
