Is this game woke? Need to know before risking a purchase

[Fapmaster]

Been burned too many times recently

[Itorsi]

🙄

[Ledah]

It has women in it, and they're competent and pretty realistic as characters. So for someone that is asking this sort of question, definitely too woke for you.

[thEnd]

its definitely not dragon age vielguard,

[Amduat]

thread 999 about woke/dei
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[[EYE]Doyle]

No, doesn't look woke to me.

[Caveman]

Unoriginal troll attempt detected.

[stebobibo]

Definitely has some woke aspects. Lumiere (the starter town) has like 1/3 black people in it, yet they claim the game is based off Belle Epoch France. Belle Epoch is from 1871 to 1914. The Black population was <1% at that time, and even today it's way less than what's represented in game. Also you'll notice all the little boys in Lumiere are effeminate. After leaving Lumiere, I haven't noticed many woke aspects (12 hours in). Really the only thing is that the main character is a coward, and his female sidekick is way braver than him (not a deal breaker by any means). I would recommend you trying it. It's a really good game.

[Edmontom]

touch grass

[rzn6jw]

Would you idiots stop with the woke thing? Get a life. Really!!

[0wnz0r]

i didnt play yet but everythin i seen says its in the clear

[Temp950]

no, not at all. if you are asking by the actual meaning of the term ( does it push far left ideology or have that sort of propaganda in it? then no). I don't see girl-boss characters who mock the men or ugly female characters made to look like men. It actually feels very different from modern "western" games to me, maybe because its made by a small french studio. Then again, maybe there is woke stuff later on, but I would be surprised. I'm pretty optimistic about this game so far.

A black person in a game does not make it woke, nor does having strong female characters. Now if this was a game set in medieval Bohemia in the 14th century and it had a random African person in it lecturing you about how awful western society is compared to his... then it would be different. This is a fantasy setting so the addition of a black person doesn't affect anything.

Saying its woke because its based upon the Belle Epoch is just weird. So does the addition of magical technology correspond with said epoch? Or the fact that they all live on broken fragments of land and have to get around with grappling "ropes"? Its only loosely based on something. I didn't notice that the boys were effeminate either. They looked like little kids. I despise the propaganda in western games as much as anyone, but its really a reach to go and see that here. It feels like some people are just looking for ♥♥♥♥ to get angry over.

[Temp950]

Originally posted by stebobibo:

Definitely has some woke aspects. Lumiere (the starter town) has like 1/3 black people in it, yet they claim the game is based off Belle Epoch France. Belle Epoch is from 1871 to 1914. The Black population was <1% at that time, and even today it's way less than what's represented in game. Also you'll notice all the little boys in Lumiere are effeminate. After leaving Lumiere, I haven't noticed many woke aspects (12 hours in). Really the only thing is that the main character is a coward, and his female sidekick is way braver than him (not a deal breaker by any means). I would recommend you trying it. It's a really good game.

1/3rd black people? I saw one black dude and he was one of the guys on the expedition. Where were the others?

[Vacenti]

As someone who hates DEI. This is super tame and not woke at all. They don't shove ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ down your throat and the characters feel like normal people.

[Antiquus Lupus]

Yes you can't play it while asleep as it isn't an auto clicker game.

[Gigantoad]

Originally posted by stebobibo:

Definitely has some woke aspects. Lumiere (the starter town) has like 1/3 black people in it, yet they claim the game is based off Belle Epoch France. Belle Epoch is from 1871 to 1914. The Black population was <1% at that time, and even today it's way less than what's represented in game. Also you'll notice all the little boys in Lumiere are effeminate. After leaving Lumiere, I haven't noticed many woke aspects (12 hours in). Really the only thing is that the main character is a coward, and his female sidekick is way braver than him (not a deal breaker by any means). I would recommend you trying it. It's a really good game.

So because the art style is based on Belle Epoch, you want this fantasy game in a fantasy universe to have the correct black and white ratio?

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