"wot if u were a boy with no personality but two hot babes fell in love with you because you were nice to them on the most basic level possible and also the hot babes were part of a marginalised group considered your property but it's ok it's not weird we promise they actually like that you are Their Master it's ok :)"

You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Reviewed on Mar 06, 2021


72 Comments


3 years ago

Don't forget the "colonialism can be a necessary evil and if you don't have solutions you shouldn't criticise it." and the "refugees are parasites on society."

Abhorrent video game, philosophically incoherent.

3 years ago

think i played this one for the 70 hours of jawdropping worlds, cool music and combat actually

3 years ago

says the subahibi fan lmao

3 years ago

mfer talkin bout philosophy when he got danganronpa in his favorites gimme a break tony u know what i mean?

3 years ago

I mean I can at least say that Danganronpa V3 is philosophically coherent. It examines the nature of truth and lies, fiction and reality in a pastiche of itself. It touches on agency, self-actualisation, the ownership of art in an age of hyper-commercialisation and hyper-interactivity. V3 uses the Danganronpa concept as a philosophical nest to question your relationship to Danganronpa as a text. It's a premiere work of metamodernism in the video game space. So yes, I would say that liking Danganronpa V3 doesn't preclude me from talking philosophy.

Now where is the coherence in the philosophy of Xenoblade 2? On one hand it has a naive notion of equality - one the other it is imperialist apologia. If your reaction to critiquing that aspect of it is an ad hominem attack on the narrative quality of the critic's favourite works, you are simply insecure.

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3 years ago

Anyone in this thread smoke weed?

3 years ago

"says the subahibi fan lmao"
im still allowed to like video games PLEASE https://i.imgur.com/3ri1oUD.png

@ the other conversation happening in here yea honestly I agree V3 is cool for that and I took what it was trying to communicate far more seriously than xenoblade 2 lol. this is just a video game ass video game at the end of the day so I find it strange that people judge it so heavily based on dumb anime shit it's guilty of, but power to you (reply more so intended for the OP, i havent touched xeno 2 since launch so i dont remember any political commentary)

3 years ago

ight subahibi fan u get a pass this time that made me laugh

3 years ago

The worst part about the game looked like the furby with the underaged maid slave

3 years ago

also has anyone here ever shopped at Sneed’s Feed and Seed?

3 years ago

never expected such philosophical depth from www.backloggd.com

3 years ago

nice to see you didn't play the game

3 years ago

based review

3 years ago

boobies
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3 years ago

Considering the "relationship" between The Boy And His Swords is literally the central thrust of the narrative I think it would be strange not to judge it based on that. Have to wonder just how disgusting the sexual and gender politics of a work has to be before you can no longer excuse it by saying that it's just "dumb anime shit".

Oh, and can we please not do the thing where in lieu of actually discussion someone's points you just say bad faith stuff like "lol you like x" or "you haven't played it".

3 years ago

I definitely think it's a point against this game but I personally still managed to get a lot of enjoyment out of it, idk. If the narrative/story was the only thing this game had going for it I'd probably give it a similar rating too. But I also didn't come away from it thinking that it tried to say that women should be subservient and slaves etc. I remember there being a lot of male and non-human blades too, and I seem to remember there being plot points exploring that they're treated in a fucked up way (a character hiding that they're a blade, their life cycle, the weird experimentation shit etc). Whether it did it well is another thing, and it's possible I'm misremembering, but yeah I did think it was minor enough to be cast aside as "dumb anime shit" and that the game wasn't literally advocating slavery or something.

I'm sure someone could make a better good faith argument than me in this regard — I didn't like the writing either, and at this point am going off of a years-old playthrough. I just don't remember finding it morally reprehensible
if i was playing Xenoblade 2, I would simply stop and play a better game.

Can't get anymore weirdguy than the female main characters are literally objects

3 years ago

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3 years ago

forgive me if im missing a joke but im fairly certain that men and women both played a significant role in developing all five of your favorite games

3 years ago

@turdl3 I would say making an adolescent power fantasy for young boys where the consent and power dynamics of the central relationship in question is deeply suspect and where women are continually and literally objectified is fairly reprehensible.

3 years ago

this is like playing xenogears and giving it a 2/5 because you hate sigmund freud

3 years ago

I can't really argue against that honestly. I think I've just been desensitised to all the shit that shamelessly panders to otaku and people of that ilk (also see the aforementioned maid robot lol), but I often want to just stick around for all the other shit that comes with it. This game in particular offers a LOT of distractions, it genuinely has some of the best video game music and world design I've ever seen for starters. I think it just depends on how much you value that kind of thing, I've not had much stock in the average game telling a good story to begin with so I just shrugged this one off. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect high-profile games (and first-party Nintendo no less lol) to steer clear of that though.

(Hope GutterTrash is still reading so they get to see the subahibi pfp say increasingly ironic things)
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3 years ago

That's fair, turdl3. For what it's worth, I think that's a very mature stance, to acknowledge the flaws in something you enjoy whilst still being able to come out on the other side enjoying it. I think doing that is an important part of having a healthy relationship with media, as opposed to dismissing criticism that you don't have a rebuttal to. Props to you.
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Wait, hold on, Nostalgia Critic hates Xenoblade 2. Didn't realise he was so based :()

3 years ago

ok if one more person makes a "this isn't trying to be political!" argument I'm locking this thread
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3 years ago

@mellorine Yeah, you when you go the review page for a review you make, you can change the privacy settings for that particular review.