Keita (Gamer)
Appearances
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
From what I gather, I think Yasuke has, like, three where he could be gay. Naoe has, I think, like, two or three. What makes it worse is the fact that Yasuke, wherever you feel about his history, he was a real guy. So put him into a game and then implying that, you know, I wouldn't want nobody to put me in a game 500 years from now and they say, oh, yeah, Keita liked to sleep with dudes.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
It's like, no, no, I didn't. Don't don't do that.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
All these writers are like, in no disrespect, a bunch of white women that don't really know anything and they're trying to avert you to other people because they don't have anything else going on in their lives. Oh, we got a bunch of gay people in here that only want to talk about being gay and nothing else.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
You look at the games and the people behind it, it's like, oh, all these people are about, you know, the puberty blockers. They're all about the, you know, social justice stuff. Wow, they hate Trump. And then you start noticing the pattern.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
You look at the people that work there and it's like, these people don't care about games. They care about the messages that they can use the games for. Gamers don't care for that stuff. We don't care for the politics. I don't care for it, to be honest with you. The only reason I said something is because I love games.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
I don't want it to be corrupted by people who don't care about it and only want to use it to platform themselves to be in some kind of virtuous position to say that they're better than you.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
created there's obviously more games have to come out that have a lot of stuff in it like because they take longer to make you know a lot of the games that we got last year were in development during 2020 and 2021 that's why it was like back to back to back to back so we still have more to have to come But hopefully we stop getting that.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
Now, I'm annoyed because they're using Yasuke, and I'm going to tell you why. Yasuke is what they want to say is the first black Japanese samurai, when in all actuality, he was not even a samurai. He was a retainer, so he wasn't even a full-blown samurai. And for all of the characters they could have used for Japan, all these kind of different people they could have picked from,
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
They picked Yasuke. Why did they pick Yasuke? Because he's black. So instead of using a Japanese man in a game based in Japan, like they did with the other Assassin's Creed games, Altair, he was an Arab, obviously. One of my favorites, Connor, in Assassin's Creed 3, he was Native American. That was fine. And the most famous of them all, Ezio Aratore, who was Italian.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
So why in all those games would you have a character representative of the region they're from? But in this game, you want to demote a Japanese man and then use Yasuke.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
That decision was made in 2020, you know, 2020, 2021. What was going on around that timeframe? You had the height of the George Floyd stuff, the DEI initiatives. During that timeframe, a lot of things were racially charged. So of course they were like, yeah, let's put Yasuke in it.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
And it's like, when you do that, you make people think, oh, whether you're doing it or not, you make people think, oh, you're just trying to virtue out somebody's skin color. They wanted him to be that focal point, that virtue, But they knew that it's not that kind of time anymore. It probably would have got by like, you know, 2020, 2021. Now people are not with that shit. They see it.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
They're like, no, I'm out. I'm not doing it.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
It is not a very good game. There's bugs out of the ass on it. There's glitches in it where it's not working properly. Textures aren't loading in properly. Facial animations, they just look so stiff. The dialogue and voice acting is the worst I've ever experienced in a video game. Like, not even just the hate, it's very bad.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
Like, the main actress that's playing the Japanese character in the game, Naoe, when she delivers her lines, I can't get invested because she sounds like an AI robot.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
It's set in feudal Japan, so the music that they have for a lot of these scenes does not fit at all. Like, it would be like some pop, like, Japanese stuff in the background or, like, some rock. Or they, like, they still have hip-hop, like, infused with Japanese stuff for, like, fight scenes. It sounds like cyberpunk music when you're fighting.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
And I'm like, why are we just doing this after this emotional moment? The music doesn't fit. And I'm like, nothing fits.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
It's so lazy to me. I'm sitting here, you know, six hours, you know, playing a video game. I don't want to be lectured to. I don't want to be pandered to. I don't want none of that. I just want to enjoy myself. Now, if you're telling a story and, you know, that's a part of the story and it's organic, I don't have an issue. I have an issue when it's obviously forced.
The Brett Cooper Show
The Non-Binary Samurai Game No One Wanted | Episode 19
It sounds like, you know, Americans pretending to be Japanese. So like, you know, like in the movies, they'd be like, you dishonor your family and family and shit. They use the R in it. That's how it sounds in this game. Like, it sounds very racially stereotypical.