“The Legend of Zelda” is classist, sexist and racist
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This is where I quit reading.
Without private property, the state owns everything. And some of the animals always end up being a lot more equal than the others.
Greedy humans will always exist. Giving a few of them control of all property is very unwise and has always worked out poorly.
Maybe the problem is with you, not the game?
That seems to happen a lot in fantasy. I think I remember reading somewhere that it was pointed out to J.R.R. Tolkien once that all of the heroes of his stories were essentially white and all of his villainous monsters were "creatures of color" and he remarked he'd never considered the unfortunate consequences.
Nevertheless, i think this guy is reading way, way too much into what is, essentially, running around a maze stabbing monsters and collecting loot.
Anyway, I always thought 'mysterious dark-skinned bad guys from the south' was cultural legacy from the Moorish invasion & Christian reconquest of Spain.
EDIT: Then again, we're talking about a Japanese video game (albeit with the trappings of traditional European fantasy) so I'm not sure how much of the above applies.
Seriously they think that a author wake up in the morning, then think:
"I will create a racist story".
Instead of:
"I imagine a cool game!". I bet the majority not think about the unfortunate implications of everything they do, and more than that, not even imagine that someday in the future some kind-of-a-expert will look for a serious philosophical undertone in his work, then create it.
No one's claiming the Zelda series gives Dostoyevsky-esque insights into societal structures.
Seriously, though...this is offensive...there is real racism and sexism in media...you don't need to go fishing this far for it, and doing so distracts and dilutes the legitimate efforts to point it out and criticize where necessary...