Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke"
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days agoI think his comments refer to the implementation of the romance in the way that it doesn’t feel like it was put there so the studio could boast about how progressive they are.
Big “I’m doing the thing I complain about, but it’s different when I do it” energy from this statement.
scholar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It looks like he’s really commenting on the way these relationships are portrayed in KCD2 compared to other games, but he doesn’t specify which other games he’s on about so it’s hard to say exactly what he’s referring to other than a general perception of modern media lazily inserting LGBT characters without integrating them more deeply into the setting or narrative.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And that complaint is an example of the issue. You’re effectively complaining about normalization of LGBT+ characters and relationships, so you see it as lazy, instead of tokenizing them and making them some kind of not-just-a-normal-person character.
scholar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, you’ve misread my comment: the tokenisation is lazy, having characters whose sole defining characteristic is their gender or sexuality (or race, disability, etc.) is lazy, failing to make them fully rounded characters beyond their superficial traits is lazy.
What Daniel is talking about is presenting these issues in a modern framing, in a time period which understood them in a very different way.
This is exactly what KCD2 has done well with this particular romance option, having the characters be rounded individuals first with ambitions and flaws, and also give them the opportunity to explore their sexuality in a way that occurs naturally through the game (depending on choices you make).