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Ghost of Yotei sparked fury and accusations of wokeness in entertainment. But we’ve played this game before—and it’s boring.

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[–] popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Back in the summer of 2020, during the first year of COVID lockdowns, two first-party PlayStation games were released back-to-back, just a month apart: Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us: Part 2. Upon release, Ghost of Tsushima was pretty beloved by a specific right-wing culture-war gamer crowd, who placed it on a pedestal specifically as a way to directly attack The Last of Us: Part 2.

Ha! I was literally going to comment this. They never "loved" GOT, they just used it to attack Naughty Dog.

I'm a huge fan of TLOU, so that whole campaign completely soured GOT for me, even though the studio never struck me as being on board with the hate. I hope Yotei gets ported to PC eventually, because it sounds more interesting.