There’s quite a bunch of them:
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SMTIV has the distinction of using its Chinese mythology derived demons for hateful xenophobia! http://eirikrjs.blogspot.com/2015/09/SMT-identity-crisis-final.html?m=1 under the 4th header here.
TL;DR: there is a mandatory subplot where you have to “reclaim” Ikebukuro (aka Chinatown in Tokyo) from “foreign demons”. It sucks!!
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wow
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yeah. lol.
i’d never played a game that was so enjoyable at first and yet left such a bad taste in my mouth
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whoa, what’s this?
metal max returns
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yeah, for snes/sfc with a fantranslation. apparently a translation for the DS remake is in the works as well.
Wait what.
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can you just explain what i fucked up or what your issue is please. i’ll gladly take the L and hopefully learn something but i hate having to puzzle it out
like just in general if i show my ass please tell me and don’t go “wha huhhh??” either way i’ll be embarrassed but at least one way i’ll know why i should be
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there is a community of Chinese immigrants in Ikebukuro but generally when people think of Chinatown in the Tokyo metropolitan area, they mean Yokohama Chinatown
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it doesn’t seem like it’s that obscure an idea
plus if xenophobic game developers were going to do some racist shit in a game it makes sense they would target a place of more recent immigration rather than an established ‘historic’ spot
it would be more offensive to refer to anything in yokohama as tokyo imo lol
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My point was not to argue that Yokohama is a part of Tokyo, but that if you go to someone in Tokyo and ask them about Chinatown, no one will ask you if you mean Ikebukuro and everyone automatically assumes you mean Yokohama
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lol i know i’m just saying sleepy didn’t mess up by saying ikebukuro was chinatown in tokyo, but if they said yokohama was chinatown in tokyo a ride or die tokyoite would take issue with granting the bridge and tunnel crowd tokyo status, just a bad joke sorry
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What the others said. Ikebukuro is one of the (lesser) large areas in Tokyo and would never think of a very small 3-4 block radius as “china town” when I will say I’ve had Chinese Language Only Chinese food there. It’s a very nebulous description and what I found in Japanese was equally “some people are calling it a new china town.”
It was also a plot point in…Yakuza 5? 6? So it was in the air at the time of what if there was a chinatown in Tokyo.
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i had a huge post about this but i realized it’s not really that interesting. but i guess there is a difference between places that one would refer to as ‘chinatown’ and places that have a notably high chinese population
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Does that say “Mmmm… check out my ass”
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yes
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hes the ass man.
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