In the sense that nothing about the architecture or art really evokes Japan at all other than that it looks vaguely Asian. (Some bits feel more Chinese than anything.) This is a big budget 2020 game with art done by contracted artists from all over the world, you’d think they’d be able to get a little closer than this, especially with how overexposed Japanese culture has been for a long while now
Orientalism. That’s the word you’re looking for. The game was made by orientalists.
It’s just wild to me that a game this modern would fall back on generic vaguely Asian slurry. I’d expect this from a game from the 90s but even the China levels in Crash 3 felt more like China than this does Japan
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Ironically, an LLM would probably make something that would look more convincingly Japanese at a glance
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This just feels really lazy and clueless to me, like how a comic from the 1970s would depict an Asian country
I used to think bandicoots were made up for the game
look how cute they are
90 percent of kids in the 90s just thought he was a fox
That is about the bare minimum for having assets in the level…
This was from a level intro before crates and enemies were spawned in, so it’s not quite this barren when you’re playing
Honestly I wouldn’t have even guessed this is supposed to be Japan. I think the wonky towers in the back look kind of neat.
But is it worse than the Crash 3 China levels
hey I loved riding a tiger along the great wall
They at least read as “China,” same with the Arabian, ancient Egyptian, etc levels
