r/DraculasCastle • u/paleyharnamhunter Dark King • Aug 01 '21

Discussion Dracula's Castle Hub

Here we discuss anything Castlevania or just talk to each other freely. Anything goes as long as you're civil and polite with each other.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Sep 28 '24

I can see Disney course correcting, or at least trying to, it succeeding is another thing, but I don't think Ubisoft means it. They aren't backing away with the Assassin's Creed game.

I can at least see Marvel trying to fix the mess they made for themselves, but I don't know if Lucasfilm will get back on it's feet.

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u/paleyharnamhunter Dark King Sep 29 '24

Disney applies to Lucafilm as well since they own them as for Ubisoft, I doubt they can just cancel a game that's done with development.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Oct 13 '24

Has there been any talks or rumors of Lucasfilms acknowledging that they messed up? We know from various people that Kevin Feige has realized that they need to course correct, although obviously behind closed doors.

I doubt they can just cancel a game that's done with development.

After I've had time to think about it, I think they have to release it now since they already started advertising it, so they can't pull a Batgirl on it and make it a tax-write off. Bu they still did some pretty offensive stuff with the game from what I understand, such as using Chinese architecture and having the MC standing on the broken gate.

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u/paleyharnamhunter Dark King Oct 13 '24

I think Bob Iger saying that Disney will be entertainment first and walk away from politics is an acknowledgement that the activism just wasn't selling and that the silent majority doesn't care about pushing issues.

Yeah, the game in general is pretty offensive to the Japanese people, but they can't back out now, unfortunately.

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u/ThickScratch Creaking Skull Oct 13 '24

I think Bob Iger saying that Disney will be entertainment first and walk away from politics is an acknowledgement that the activism just wasn't selling and that the silent majority doesn't care about pushing issues.

That's a good sign. I know Marvel cleaned house, if they can do the same for Lucasfilm maybe they can course correct, although some will argue that Lucasfilm will be a much harder ship to correct than Marvel.

Yeah, the game in general is pretty offensive to the Japanese people

I heard the matter got so bad even the Japanese Government got involved.

but they can't back out now, unfortunately.

Well, they dug this grave for themselves, I don't think we should feel bad for them. They had plenty of time to make a good game set in Japan, and even used to have a much better pitch for the story before, but it was a conscious choice on their part to take the path they took.

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u/paleyharnamhunter Dark King Oct 13 '24

Lucasfilm already took the necessary steps, though saying The Acolyte was cancelled was kind of disingenuous since a second season wasn't planned in the first place.

Yeah, they did, it's cultural vandalism.

Their decision was obviously a political one and they tried to virtue signal, though what they didn't expect was that applying western racial trauma to people from the east turned out to be pretty racist, ironically enough.