➔ hichanbis - 21 Sep 2021
Their character design presumably aims for a certain Pixar charm, but it made it difficult for me to tell if all these characters with Japanese names were in fact Japanese. That's a small niggle, the bigger issue for me is Kena's iconography. The game uses Japanese Inari and Jizo statues and iconography, as well as Balinese influences and mixes them, presumably because they look cool, because due to missing worldbuilding, none of it is referenced anywhere. I always get a bit uncomfortable when religious practice or ideas such as karma are used as game mechanics, completely untethered from any meaning. You may not care, but in real life, these things mean something to people, something which, judging by their vitae, Ember Lab are aware of

Ca me met tout de suite dans le respect et la confiance.