Like I said it is fair to say it may have racially insensitive. But the situation is so cliche in games now I really don't think they intended to be racist. Then again I'm so sick of being so politically incorrect I'm not going to hold it against them beyond it being stupidly cliched.
I won't deny that games make use of the damsel in distress concept to the nth degree, but the scene was both illogical and unnecessary which is why it pangs of racism. He's right on his first point: what the **** IS a pretty white woman in a thigh-length dress doing in the middle of a remote African village overrun with zombies?
If this was a village FILLED with white people, sure, it could happen and the symbolism would be more subtle and the racism element would be more easily questioned. But the simple fact is that the character described (and pictured in one of the screenshots) no more belongs in this village than a clown belongs at a funeral (unless it's a funeral for another clown or something).
And above all else, the scene is COMPLETELY unnecessary. I'm guessing that, at this point in the game, the player has already been attacked by hordes of zombies already, leaving no doubt in their mind that, yes, these hordes of zombies are dangerous and aggressive. What purpose does having a zombie drag a random character who completely doesn't fit the surroundings away serve? To make some fleeting statement about the death of beauty? A pretty black woman would've worked just fine for that.
Here's the picture of the woman in question. Blonde hair, little black dress. Huh?
http://media.crispygamer.com/screenshot/Title178/re5_1882.jpgIf it's all just Japanese callousness, then that too could stand to change. I agree wholeheartedly that Japanese devs need to stop thinking that their games are written and designed for Japan and Japan alone, especially when the VAST majority of RE5's sales will without a doubt be in other markets.
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