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Turtlemania7 posted...

Are you humble bragging you played the worst versions of the games? I don't understand the point of this post

Honestly that post was a bit cringe, but the point I was trying to get at is that I was into the series for years, in for the long haul, and even as recently as XRD it seemed like the fanbase for this game was passionate, but niche.

So when Bridget came out for Strive and all of these supposed lore experts and fans who love the series from the bottom of their hearts came out of the woodwork to "set the record straight" - it was frustrating, because there was never that level of attention or fervor about the series for 10+ years beforehand.

It seemed clear to me that it was a bunch of bad-faith morons claiming to be speaking from a place of love so they could do the same song and dance about Japan's conservatism and woke localisation and all the regular shit they like to get up to. Same thing happened with AI: The Somnium Files. Same thing happens every time anything even remotely queer happens in Japanese games.

Not to say "if you dislike Bridget being trans you're not a real fan", because I'm sure there were some longtime fans who were alienated by this. But I feel very strongly that a majority of the people springing up to disregard it for the numerous reasons they did weren't doing it out of love for the game or the franchise, they were doing it because Bridget being explicitly trans was something they could argue about. There were too many "strangers", for lack of a better term, for this to have been a purely organic movement coming out of the fandom imo.