Asian RPGs have always used names from mythology and religion to name tons of their characters. Many of them bear only token resemblance to their original depictions, and rarely have anything at all to actually do with them other than some surface attributes like “ice” theme. It’s kind of hard to get up in arms about yet another one.
The thing about Genshin is that their whole world is set up around nations, and the next one is supposed to be Latin American and West African influenced, but everyone is white. Just like they did the last one, Sumeru, which was Near East and South East Asian inspired. They want the culture with none of the melanin.
I need more representation in my gambling reeeeee
There are no real world deities. 🤷🏼♀️
No one cares. Don’t believe me. Here’s the tweet who stared the “boycott” (twitter / nitter / archive). Do you see it tell people to stop playing the game? No, you do not. They can’t even stop playing Genshin. When they’re trying to make people boycott it. So like I said, no one cares. Because it’s all virtue signalling.
In a world where historical figures are repeatedly represented in media with the wrong ethnicity, that VA’s complaint seems like irony.
But seriously: if Genshin really aimed at accuracy, they’d have to portray the character as some old guy, which is totally contrary to the tone of the other characters in the game: youthful, cool-looking, modern.
