Eolz
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Destructoid just received a heated news tip in our tips inbox stating "...I learned that Square Enix has replaced a Native American class called Tomahawk with Cowboy class in Bravely Second's western version. I find this very untasteful considering how natives were genocided and their culture was almost completely destroyed in the US. I hope you can spread the news and hopefully Square Enix removes cowboy pandering." The email included the image seen above, which has the file name "cultural genocide".
While I wouldn't be surprised if all this is just fake drama drummed up by bored internet children, it's also not out of the realm of possibility for Nintendo to make this kind of localization change. [...]
Sadly, this fear of offending minorities is one of the reasons that so many minority characters in games are cut, or never planned to begin with. The only way to be sure you won't offend anyone is to not say anything at all. The downside is, that's also a sure fire way to be a lot more boring and noninclusive.
Source: Destructoid
Thoughts on this?
If true, this is a lot more than just a simple breast slider removed (XCX), text localization, or outfits heavily edited/removed (Bravely Default), since this is going into the realm of cultural change/reappropriation. That would be pretty bad.
Hoping that NOA/NOE/Square-Enix see this and don't make it happen.
edit: make me another stereotype if old.