Yes, superficial and on the nose, as corvi said a caricature. Something an actual Japanese studio might cook up for the pitch. Maybe the humor is the Frenchest thing about the game, but then again there might be something under all this that’s too subtle for me. I get more honest vibes from Plague‘s Tale for example.
I mean, It’s made by a team of largely French developers and artists. The songs are in French, the setting is basically Belle Epoque France with all the included architecture and dress. Even in the English language version they throw in French swear words.
Sure they throw in baguette costumes as a fun tongue in cheek option but if you think the game is a caricature of French culture based solely on that, you’re missing the forest for the trees.
Like, what would actually meet your standard of appropriately representing French culture?
I mean, It’s made by a team of largely French developers and artists. […] Like, what would actually meet your standard of appropriately representing French culture?
I don’t know, I’m not French, so maybe I’m just not picking up all the little things the French creators put in there and therefore don’t see the forest. It would be great if someone more knowledgable about (modern) French culture could point some of these out. I’m fond of the mini documentary Karambolage by a French-German tv channel which points out differences in culture and it’s a bit more than “look here in this country is the Eiffel tower and there might be French words unlike in this other country”.
The story is very French in my opinion and I don’t care if you could say it is very Japanese or not (honestly can’t judge), those things are not contradictory. It could be both as well.
Yes, superficial and on the nose, as corvi said a caricature. Something an actual Japanese studio might cook up for the pitch. Maybe the humor is the Frenchest thing about the game, but then again there might be something under all this that’s too subtle for me. I get more honest vibes from Plague‘s Tale for example.
I mean, It’s made by a team of largely French developers and artists. The songs are in French, the setting is basically Belle Epoque France with all the included architecture and dress. Even in the English language version they throw in French swear words.
Sure they throw in baguette costumes as a fun tongue in cheek option but if you think the game is a caricature of French culture based solely on that, you’re missing the forest for the trees.
Like, what would actually meet your standard of appropriately representing French culture?
I don’t know, I’m not French, so maybe I’m just not picking up all the little things the French creators put in there and therefore don’t see the forest. It would be great if someone more knowledgable about (modern) French culture could point some of these out. I’m fond of the mini documentary Karambolage by a French-German tv channel which points out differences in culture and it’s a bit more than “look here in this country is the Eiffel tower and there might be French words unlike in this other country”.
The story is very French in my opinion and I don’t care if you could say it is very Japanese or not (honestly can’t judge), those things are not contradictory. It could be both as well.
It’s not Japanese, it just has almost all the JRPG tropes (except the terrible writing). But it’s as French as Flight of the Conchords’ Foux du Fafa.