So the developer is black, create black protagonist, create story based on Africa myth, create black NPC that is fit in his game theme. This game already no need for DEI or representation culture Why did he even hire Sweet Baby Inc??? 🤣
@@nguyenthanhvu2804 Because SBI probably pitched them that they come with other perks like articles and industry connections which they do have admittedly. But they are so toxic it doesn’t matter if 20 game journalist sites write up articles about how amazing your game will be. Especially if those sites are equally toxic. They basically got scammed 😂.
For sure, but the way the CEO talked (in terms of tone of voice) struck me more as something he'd been told to say by SBI rather than his own personal outrage. I might be wrong, but he didn't just come off as the normal BS outrage those types do.
Is it just me, or do almost all SBI games seem to have an obsession with the color purple? I can't help but subconsciously associate the color purple with SBI now.
For a game as small as that, they should have saved that money to hire an editor to polish up the game a bit. The game is fine for a platformer, but that's all it is, it's just ok. There's nothing that separates it from the hundreds of other platformers. Being set in Africa with an African story could have been great, but the story is all told through exposition. When you think of a great platformer with amazing storying telling, you think of Ori. Ori has very little exposition, and most of the story is visual story telling, with tidbits of narration sprinkled in, but the story is something you see and feel through playing. In this game, ALL of the story is through exposition, and the levels are only there to get you to the next cutscene. The levels themselves don't actually add or take away from the story, they are just there. But when that's the bulk of your gameplay, it gets boring really fast. If Sweet Baby was good at their job, they would have pointed this out to the devs and made them incorporate the story more into the gameplay. Sweet Baby only makes games worse. There's someone who just posted background recordings from Unknown 9 and it's supposed to take place in India but they are literally just speaking gibberish. It's like they grabbed random background noise from people talking online and said "yeah, this will work!" DEI needs to DIE.
The agenda is more important then money, Look who the major players are and what small hat they alllll share. Ever hear of Weimar Republic? Look into the rise of a certain mustache man and WHY Germany descended into madness.
To be honest i think it wasn't the diversity. I think it is just a common game type that isn't popular to begin with compared to others and it genuinely has to be something story driven like hollow knight or something. It's not interesting just being a African story. Hollow Knight had lore and world building that gave off blasphemous or a dark souls game. Why play a African myth when you have bigger better stories in unique worlds
Underrated comment, a lot of games are getting slapped down by the usual buzzwords"woke, DEI, slop, SBI, diversity" but most of them are just bad games or have a lot of competition. Like as you say this game is not revolutionary by any means and its main selling point is that its an african game about african culture, but the game itself however good it maybe has a lot of competition within its own genre with more fetched out stories. Outlaws was just a bad game with bad character design, and unfinished codes and stuff, and when you have to decide wether you spend 90 pounds on an unfinished game, with mechanics that are by no means revolutionary, or you spend 50 on BMWK which has a better story and is a finished game without any microtransactions, then the choice is obvious for many. Most of the games dont flop because of diversity as many think the main problem is. They flop because they are objectively bad installments released at the wrong time. But its easy to point out the devil when their hand is consequently in many disasters.
I didnt see SBI mentioned in the credits at the end of the game. Also, I didnt see anything woke in the game, imho. I really think this game is an unfortunate casualty of the culture war.
Speaking for myself here, I couldnt care less about a metroidvania game in 2024. Much less one about a culture I find uninteresting. It's pretty though, they clearly have some talent in their studio. But I'm not buying a game clearly not made for me as a target audience, in terms of both genre and style/story. If the game didnt sell well, maybe the target demographic just isnt there?
Did word "diverse" have no meaning in current era? Stuff that is shit on bc of "diversity" have problem with putting check mark races in setting where they dont fit. For example movie or game with medieval european setting with random asians or native americans poping out(even in fantasy stuff like that usualy have no sense without explanation). Or changing races of established characters. Thats diversity. There is nothing diverse in game about one culture, from one tribe, with one race. And this is NOT BAD thing. But if i remember correctly... at some point maybe on twitter, or some interview one of devs said something like "there will be no whites, its not game fo them".
"over a dozen layoffs" Wut ? How many people are in the studio ? You dont need has much people to make such a game. Game studio are bloated beyond saving...
The gameplay looks fine though.. I don't see the issue. I don't know what expectations people have for a platform game.. I personally don't care about back story or anything like that.
Who is the target audience for this game? I do not care for african culture, main character does not look attractive, there are just way too many games out there and my time is limited.
I don’t believe this game can really be called woke. For years people have been telling people to make their own IPs and create stories and games around African mythology. This company did exactly that and told an authentic African story with their own IP. I will never not applaud that. The reason the game failed is because it just looks like mediocre game in a genre already bursting at the seams with hundreds other games that play just like it and seem more interesting. People are tired of the same thing coming from small indie game studios.
So the developer is black, create black protagonist, create story based on Africa myth, create black NPC that is fit in his game theme. This game already no need for DEI or representation culture
Why did he even hire Sweet Baby Inc??? 🤣
Ikr
Either he thought DEI was cool next stuff, or he needed funds and SBI provided that, or both
Riiight
Why’d Bayek have to hire those weirdo Templars?😢😢😢
@@nguyenthanhvu2804 Because SBI probably pitched them that they come with other perks like articles and industry connections which they do have admittedly. But they are so toxic it doesn’t matter if 20 game journalist sites write up articles about how amazing your game will be. Especially if those sites are equally toxic. They basically got scammed 😂.
A game can't be diverse if it only has one type of people in it. It's in-fact the opposite of diverse.
For sure, but the way the CEO talked (in terms of tone of voice) struck me more as something he'd been told to say by SBI rather than his own personal outrage. I might be wrong, but he didn't just come off as the normal BS outrage those types do.
"Diversity" in today's western world has become code for "no white men", so yeah.
For those people, "diverse" only means "not white". Ideally "not male" and "not straight' either.
Sweet baby is the touch of death to game studios.
Hold up! There is a dei filter on steam!!! I need this immediately! Thank you!
Is it just me, or do almost all SBI games seem to have an obsession with the color purple? I can't help but subconsciously associate the color purple with SBI now.
I see it too
everything sweet baby touch will fall, maybe the game is good or not but the name of sweetbaby is mark by financial lost and mediocrity.
For a game as small as that, they should have saved that money to hire an editor to polish up the game a bit. The game is fine for a platformer, but that's all it is, it's just ok. There's nothing that separates it from the hundreds of other platformers. Being set in Africa with an African story could have been great, but the story is all told through exposition. When you think of a great platformer with amazing storying telling, you think of Ori. Ori has very little exposition, and most of the story is visual story telling, with tidbits of narration sprinkled in, but the story is something you see and feel through playing. In this game, ALL of the story is through exposition, and the levels are only there to get you to the next cutscene. The levels themselves don't actually add or take away from the story, they are just there. But when that's the bulk of your gameplay, it gets boring really fast.
If Sweet Baby was good at their job, they would have pointed this out to the devs and made them incorporate the story more into the gameplay. Sweet Baby only makes games worse. There's someone who just posted background recordings from Unknown 9 and it's supposed to take place in India but they are literally just speaking gibberish. It's like they grabbed random background noise from people talking online and said "yeah, this will work!" DEI needs to DIE.
Caucasian main characters=Success
Minority main characters=Failure
So strange supposedly pros in the industry can miss it.
Nobody wants woke garbage, they want actually entertaining games that allows us to ESCAPE from reality.
yep
The agenda is more important then money, Look who the major players are and what small hat they alllll share.
Ever hear of Weimar Republic? Look into the rise of a certain mustache man and WHY Germany descended into madness.
To be honest i think it wasn't the diversity. I think it is just a common game type that isn't popular to begin with compared to others and it genuinely has to be something story driven like hollow knight or something. It's not interesting just being a African story. Hollow Knight had lore and world building that gave off blasphemous or a dark souls game. Why play a African myth when you have bigger better stories in unique worlds
Underrated comment, a lot of games are getting slapped down by the usual buzzwords"woke, DEI, slop, SBI, diversity" but most of them are just bad games or have a lot of competition. Like as you say this game is not revolutionary by any means and its main selling point is that its an african game about african culture, but the game itself however good it maybe has a lot of competition within its own genre with more fetched out stories. Outlaws was just a bad game with bad character design, and unfinished codes and stuff, and when you have to decide wether you spend 90 pounds on an unfinished game, with mechanics that are by no means revolutionary, or you spend 50 on BMWK which has a better story and is a finished game without any microtransactions, then the choice is obvious for many. Most of the games dont flop because of diversity as many think the main problem is. They flop because they are objectively bad installments released at the wrong time. But its easy to point out the devil when their hand is consequently in many disasters.
Yeah. I'm also covering another flopped game right now still with the same game type. Will post it later
But I'm sure the fact that it got included in the curator's list plays a lot
I wouldn't play any game that had been infected by any DEI consultants, even if the the gameplay was great.
I didnt see SBI mentioned in the credits at the end of the game.
Also, I didnt see anything woke in the game, imho.
I really think this game is an unfortunate casualty of the culture war.
Sweet baby dei pdf file company have started to unlist themselves so people dont know what games theyve cancered with their touch.
Now is a good time to pay attention to who reviewed the game and what score they gave it.
As well as what news articles said what about it.
Speaking for myself here, I couldnt care less about a metroidvania game in 2024.
Much less one about a culture I find uninteresting.
It's pretty though, they clearly have some talent in their studio.
But I'm not buying a game clearly not made for me as a target audience, in terms of both genre and style/story.
If the game didnt sell well, maybe the target demographic just isnt there?
keeps me bugging as well
Why would you need a toxic canadian consulatnt company to make a game about kenyan mythology?
Damn, they let SBI extort them just to sink their game, what a fail.
To be honest this is the first time I've heard of the game. I'm pretty certain this situation was eclipsed by Concorde
The culture war has only trumpets and casualties.
Did word "diverse" have no meaning in current era? Stuff that is shit on bc of "diversity" have problem with putting check mark races in setting where they dont fit. For example movie or game with medieval european setting with random asians or native americans poping out(even in fantasy stuff like that usualy have no sense without explanation). Or changing races of established characters. Thats diversity.
There is nothing diverse in game about one culture, from one tribe, with one race. And this is NOT BAD thing. But if i remember correctly... at some point maybe on twitter, or some interview one of devs said something like "there will be no whites, its not game fo them".
"over a dozen layoffs"
Wut ? How many people are in the studio ? You dont need has much people to make such a game. Game studio are bloated beyond saving...
This... isn't even a woke game? It's an original IP based on African lore. That's like saying Ghost of Tsushima is woke, or Wither 3.
I've played through the game... Havent seen anything woke in it
Being original or liscenced has nothing to do with being woke.
@@TheAquarius87Yup, cause it's not. Dustborn is woke, this game is just mediocre, that's why it failed.
The gameplay looks fine though.. I don't see the issue. I don't know what expectations people have for a platform game.. I personally don't care about back story or anything like that.
the clips are from the trailer so don't expect a 1:1
How is hawing only black characters diverse? I did not bought game and have no intent for in it...
Who is the target audience for this game?
I do not care for african culture, main character does not look attractive, there are just way too many games out there and my time is limited.
thanks I'll go check it out. love woke games ever since my algos have been drowned in anti-woke nonsense
your tongue got tied on the name. its Kenzera, not Kerazee
yes haha. i only noticed it after uploading
Bro getting suck dry by SBI lol
Must have sold out in africa
nope
Was sarcasm m8
rip bozo
I don’t believe this game can really be called woke. For years people have been telling people to make their own IPs and create stories and games around African mythology. This company did exactly that and told an authentic African story with their own IP. I will never not applaud that.
The reason the game failed is because it just looks like mediocre game in a genre already bursting at the seams with hundreds other games that play just like it and seem more interesting. People are tired of the same thing coming from small indie game studios.