Sorry for the multiple posts I've tried to sort of compress a lot of replies into a few posts as I was taking a break from socio politics stuff.
The main issue is the idea of cultural lenses vs attempted sincerity.
Basically is the piece of media showing said cultural perspective or viewing something else through that lens. E.G. Suda 51's games meant to be set in America but you're clearly seeing a Japanese guy's viewing of American culture rather than something attempting to emulate said culture's works. You're seeing an artists perspective on the work. Compare that with I dunno Marvel's Shang Chi which was meant to be a Western studio doing an Eastern style Martial arts esc film.
Criticising a piece of media for showing a perspective from a certain cultural background is like criticising a Bollywood film for having too much dancing and too many musical numbers in it. You can do it but you'll look like a bit of an idiot and likely get some people mocking you because that's kind of some of the cultural stuff Bollywood has as part of its core. It's a highly subjective personal criticism of little worth to those who know about and enjoy Bollywood films for the chance to experience said cultural elements and perspective.
Meanwhile if it's trying to showcase itself as set somewhere and trying to be authentic or somewhat authentic you could criticise it for screwing up cultural elements. The only example I can thing of is Call of Juarez The Cartel where is screws up depicting the realities of Mexican drug smuggling rings etc.
2) There are already a few games that have this in them...........I dunno if it ever made it to the West but I seem to remember one that was planned to come over called Disaster Report or something.
This is kind of where issues come in because what you have are 2 separate arguments being combined.
The main issue is the idea of cultural lenses vs attempted sincerity.
Basically is the piece of media showing said cultural perspective or viewing something else through that lens. E.G. Suda 51's games meant to be set in America but you're clearly seeing a Japanese guy's viewing of American culture rather than something attempting to emulate said culture's works. You're seeing an artists perspective on the work. Compare that with I dunno Marvel's Shang Chi which was meant to be a Western studio doing an Eastern style Martial arts esc film.
Criticising a piece of media for showing a perspective from a certain cultural background is like criticising a Bollywood film for having too much dancing and too many musical numbers in it. You can do it but you'll look like a bit of an idiot and likely get some people mocking you because that's kind of some of the cultural stuff Bollywood has as part of its core. It's a highly subjective personal criticism of little worth to those who know about and enjoy Bollywood films for the chance to experience said cultural elements and perspective.
Meanwhile if it's trying to showcase itself as set somewhere and trying to be authentic or somewhat authentic you could criticise it for screwing up cultural elements. The only example I can thing of is Call of Juarez The Cartel where is screws up depicting the realities of Mexican drug smuggling rings etc.
Well they're not is the simple answer. You'll often be able to tell cultural elements and trappings in films from different areas. While it's not exactly the West the former Soviet block countries do tend to have a style to their output as does Russian media. See the Stalker series, Metro Last Light and a fair few other stuff from former soviet block countries whose games and films that have come over to the west
1) Well clearly the cultural view of that is it's not good but prevalent otherwise there wouldn't be a rule about the click sound.
2) There are already a few games that have this in them...........I dunno if it ever made it to the West but I seem to remember one that was planned to come over called Disaster Report or something.
