u/TaskEnvironmental270

Always interested in critique and making things better. One example im dealing with at the moment is the work of Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of kirby and super smash bros. Hes mades ome amazing games and i love kirby but he has faced notable critiicsim due to a lack of racial diversity in the smash games and some racial charcitures in both smash ultimate and his earlier games (game and watch original animation had to be removed, the use of charecters like donkey kong to represent black charcecters from street fighter) but i also dont want to think his games are garbage because of those aspects. Sorry if this is the wrong place for this but i appreciate critical theory for its ability to create dialogue through constructive critiicsm and was wondering if people had any essays, papers or articles on the subject or really just some advice

Hey hope you are doing well. Interested in really diving into both three houses and three hopes but have seen a lot of arguing on the merits of both stories. i think the fact that there has been a lot of arguing and debate shows that the writing of the games , the plot and the world building have some merit. However it also seems that the games often stumble in how they try to present cerain themes or make choices that really piss off fans of certain routes. The mind control of edlegard in dimitris route in three hopes, edlegard in general being seen as fascist or people disliking the way claude is handled and not fleshed out. How do people feel about the games and the commentary they make on sociey, religon and dynamics like classism, racism and sexism? do the games attempt to make a progressive message that is undermined by some regressive stuff such as anime fanservice bullshit? Or are the games more conservative with people only reading progressive messaging as headcannons?