So, I'm not of any asian ethnicity here. Need to say that now. I got through most of the opening cutscene, until a specific point where a pair of characters display agonizingly "Yellow peril" era stereotype accents (think Mickey Rooney playing I. Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's, or any number of stereotypical asian villain types in movies from anywere from the 40s to the 90s with a lot of L/R accent swaps and so on) I'm not sure I'm interested in continuing the game. I already am aware of the problems with the gameplay itself, I got the game at its extreme discount fully knowing this (I grew up in the 90s, I remember that imfamous ad in magazines) but still... I don't know if it's because the world has changed and I've changed with it, or if I'm just too much of a prude in my older age, I feel uneasy about continuing. Like I wish I could get a refund for it out of annoyance with having something so unneccessary thrown at me. It is out of place too, the other characters with speaking dialoge in the introduction do not have such accents and sound rather typical action movie in comparison so it just feels cheap and sleezy in an unneeded way to include that. Not really interested in learning if it gets any better, or worse.
I had this game and its preceding when I was a kid, and absolutely loved them both, and it still holds up decades later! Not much more to say for now
I absolutely loved this game back in the day, and it's amazing to get to play it again finally!
