Woke? Yeah I just woke up

When Nintendo first released Mario Odyssey and it had Mario in a Sombrero Twerking oiled up I felt so offended for Mexicans, but now I know that twerking oiled up is a time honored tradition and Miyamoto San is a true Ally, thank you el gemchel

Gosh, I just want to say thank you for being such a cool, open and kind voice in the community. People like you are what make me feel accepted and comfortable in this place that seems to be getting worse in some parts. Especially with you being Latino, I'm Filipino and our culture are similar in a lot of aspects and I just can't help but feel happy how I see myself a bit in you. I really can't put into words how grateful I am for people like you so again, just thank you.

A video about localizenation would be interesting to watch.

Wow I REALLY must’ve been living under a rock cause I have not once ever heard of gamergate until watching this video. Imma count my blessings for that alone

when i play rpgs I AM the lgbtq character.

I cant believe Game Shelf has gone woke by being Mexican

I still think the Bridget thing is weird. Seems very confusing and antithetical to the storyline that character had going. Something something about not giving in to societal pressures and staying true to yourself. Bridget becoming a girl is basically giving in to the societal pressures they were put under by their family and clan, so the message is like "Let others dictate who you should be" I don't really care that much, but whenever people bring that up as some example of people being transphobic for not liking it, I think that's pretty unfair. There's legitimate reasons to have issues with that story

15:40 GLAD SOMEONE FINALLY CALLED THIS OUT SERIOUSLY

the people who think my mere existence is political are so... yikes Thanks for speaking up

I love how you get progressively annoyed by these controversies. I can't blame you though, most of these are stupid as hell lol..

Oh my god, thank you for this. The last year or two have felt really toxic for game discourse at large. The part about localization had me rolling.😂 If you feel like making that follow-up video, I'd love to see it! "You can say whatever you want to justify being a horrible person..." - Way to hit the nail on the head Luis!

the number 1 rule that should be followed when it comes to drama online. Be a spectator, not an actor, and keep your sanity.

Was about to demand you upload a new video because I've been living off of irate gamer scraps. But you're right on time. Thank you based shelf!

That in review I realised I never cared about any of the controversies mentioned in the video I guess is a good thing, as I didn't put much energy into them. Well, the only time any of my energy went into it was if someone I know was backing those absurd viewpoints and pushing them on to others (like gaming is sexist, males having fantasies is bad, sexualisation is bad, cultural appropriation in games and media, that sort of thing)

I've been watching your videos for a while now, just wanna say that you make great entertaining content and i hope more people find your stuff :)

Is that a refrence to my king low tier god.

In fairness, the only reason the Anna controversy is the most well known is because people drew attention to that specific controversy, not just that the anti-localizers got angry about it. If people had actually looked at the other, far worse changes to Engage, the localization of that game wouldn’t need to be such a delicate topic

Bro, la otra vez vi un comentario de alguien que llamó woke a Final Fantasy 7 Remake por los temas que trata de salvar al planeta porque se lo están chupeteando las corporaciones, o sea claramente ni si quiera había jugado el original 🤡

Great video man, loved your research and sense of humor, definitely subscribing

Top tier video as always! Absolutely love your destruction of the double standards at 15:40, it reminds me of how people will totally be fine with "yuri" but be upset when someone is a "lesbian." appreciate how kindly you've handled LGBTQ topics in many of your vids, I award luis gameshelf as my favorite ally in this month of pride!

gameshelf giving us a new video at the end of the work week? It's like my buddy Edwardo always says to me. "Gracias Pendejito"

15:33 Thank you. I never understand why people existing have to be a "Political" thing.

5:17 Hack N Slash! They’re called Hack N Slashes.

Loved this vid. New sub 🎉

4:42 2B's outfit isn't revealing

Great video as always

Honestly, I'd be awesome if you did a video on Guilty Gear. Its such an interesting franchise brimming with content and you'd definitely have a lot of fun on researching it!

I'd be very interested in a localization video bc as a big fire emblem fan, every game ends up being so different than the japanese original and its usually a bad thing (Fates)

The dumbest video game controversies I've ever seen were Tracer's ass and RE5 racism.

While the controversy with Unicorn Overlord is questionable at best, complaining over making the game have a dialect more fitting for the time period, the problems with the translation of other games like Eiyuden Chronicles (have been really enjoying it so far) where they have optional and momentary dialogue of someone getting called a chud (this is also a medieval era fantasy game) I can see is more justified in their criticism

I completely disagree on your opinions on Stellar Blade. Any developer has the right to make the game (character design, revealing outfits, etc.) the way that they want. So, if a character is meant to wear revealing outfits, so be it. Also, the hard graffiti next to the letter R is not an issue whatsoever. People were reading too much into that.

I can't believe that The Game Shelf became woke and gave us a Latinx protagonist. As a latino that last word hurt to write, I am sorry, I will change and grow as a person.

SO TRUEEEE

SO TRUE BESTIE!!!

honestly the noise makes me wanna be mexican

thats my dawwg

As someone who's 'lucky' enough to play Japanese games in their original languages, I'd say my main issue when it comes to localisation is how it can change the way a character is presented, leading to a disconnect between the localised version and the original version. That said, translating from Japanese to English is far from easy and you can't expect the localised version to be 100% faithful. Unless you want the text to be stilted and unnatural, which... why would you? So yeah... I haven't played Unicorn Overlord yet, but seeing the screenshots, I agree that this controversy is beyond daft.

did you call her bebian?

Even though I was a 27-year old fully cognizant adult ten years ago, I'm still not entirely aware of Gamergate's full picture. At the time, all I knew was the feminist game journalists were being harassed for their dumb hot takes. I think that, as an adult, I had stopped caring what game journalists were talking about a long time before that point...otherwise I may have been dragged into the quagmire with them. In hindsight, the biggest implication was the genesis of the current strain of uncompromising cultural reactionaries that have come to dominate the conservative political parties of nearly every western democracy today.

What?

Hoo boy... The comments here are gonna be utterly brainrotting...

The chuds complaining about Unicorn Overlord's translation REALLY pissed me off when i saw that. I had played a bit of the demo at the time and was really impressed, and then see twitter users complaining that they want no sauce in the dialogue and "its not up to localizers to give personality to characters" Its such a weird thing to complain about

Can you get outraged at more stuff?

I am glad you brought up Unicorn Overlord again. Honestly, I was never really sold on the game but after seeing three videos of yours where you truly, obviously love the game and have brought up points and interesting elements of it to the point where I have to get the game next time it goes on sale. You've legitimately sold me on your love for this game wholeheartedly. Also, of course, trans rights are human rights! Equal rights, equal fights bigots!

Anti-transers running to this video to hate instead of just staying in their lane You know you are the EXACT people he's talking about in this video right? Overreactors. Alarm-ringers. Queer people exist you cant change that no matter how much you complain.

You guys don't have phones?

I swear, any bad movie book show or game would be considered woke by many people without seeing what’s actually wrong with the story, writing, characters, and even concept/continuity in all the media I mentioned.

Genshin Impact are making far too many gay characters that became extremely woke.

When I saw the thumbnail, I was unsure if this video was criticising the "wokeness is ruining video games" crowd or if it was that crowd. So glad it's the former, honestly based video. The Stellar Blade section reminded me of how this Korean game had a similar drama just because one of the characters was in a full-body swimsuit instead of a bikini. Then these horny lunatics harassed a "feminist" woman who supposedly was responsible (even though she likely wasn't) until she quit the dev team because of said harassment.

so for the bridget controversies specifically keep in mind my knowledge is basically just a explanation video on the character herself i played xrd and strive and she was only in strive where i did see her full arcade mode but basically she was forced to dress and act like a woman despite being a guy which made her run away but now in strive she wants to be a woman anyway like it kind of feels like you get the bad ending in a way. it's very clear the creator always intended her to be trans but couldn't do it back in the day so he went with a story that resembles something trans people probably go trough. like really her situation is more that it just doesn't go well with the story she was put in. the bridget situation does have a few more layers to them but it did become a bigger deal and people started screaming woke which is stupid because fighting games have always been pretty progressive with stuff like chun li and dj being one of the first strong female playable characters and one of the first good black characters in video games and later on poison being one of the first trans reps like one of the big pillars in fighting games is expressing yourself and that does include trans and any other lgbtq rep hack in strive tastement is non binary and people didn't complain about it then. but yeah the problem with bridget is that it bad or inconsistent writing in her character mainly because of how they where forced to write her back in the day. sorry for the long comment but i did want to explain a bit about the bridget situation because sadly like twitter and reddit does best they just turned it into "trans equals bad" which is stupid vivian is still amazing i'm happy they finally made it official that was a localisation problem that actually was bad.

Localizers and their apologists will face the wall for invading my hobby. Also, play a Guilty Gear that doesn't fucking suck.

the trans part summed up so many of my thoughts so well

So much soy in this video it's wild

13:24 here's the thing with madeline. if she is indeed trans, i support that, because i do support trans people myself. I know i might get hated on for this, but the flag may just be there to show that Madeline supports trans rights - it doesn't explicitly state that she is trans (but i won't call her cis either. Unlike Vivian and Bridget, who were both confirmed to be trans women, Madeline's gender was not confirmed to be either cis or trans by developers or lore, so it could be either case. I will not headcanon anything here. I just want to talk about the situation at hand. i honestly don't have much of a say about this, im not exactly, well, qualified to talk about trans history, and other stuff, but i'll just accept anything that we get about her. whether she is trans or a cis woman, or anything else.

Didn't call it Paper Mario: The Thousand Queer Door, smh

I really don't like conversations like this, your just taking the worst arguments and treating it like that's the whole discussion when it's not. Generally disagree with most things in this video and find it really disingenuous. Pairing the Mario and unicorn overlord Controversies with the others delegitimizes and causes a disconnect with the issues at hand making people already think the next ones you cover aren't actual problems. the unicorn overload thing is the only real issue that I simi-agree with you with, but I would say that if it wasn't for other localization companies wiping their butt with the source material to insert their own egos into the project that might have not happened. the Stellarblade one I've seen people make this argument when they don't really even want to pretend to know what the outrage was about. Sony said that they weren't gonna censor the game and people bought the game based on the faith that they were going to keep that promise. When Sony eventually did censor the game the people got mad that they were lied to. Side note interesting how you left out the part where there were people on the internet saying that the game itself was sexist, how the person that designed the main character has never met a women before (even though the designer was a woman and the lead developers wife), how the dev team are just pathetic virgins that only made the character off of their desires of what the female body should be (even though the body is a scan of an actual models), and when the game came out there was article after article demanding the game to be censored. Interesting how that was left out of your segment. To just boil it down to it's just a bunch of gooners getting mad that they can't get off to the design anymore is just poisoning the well and preventing proper resolutions to issues. 15:40 the trap and trans thing is two different things entirely and more often than not the trans-change is never really genuine it's almost always for a political motives. Traps are not trans it's the male dressing up as a female for the fun of fooling people. Trans is someone going through gender dysphoria and uses several different methods to alter their body for them to better deal with that Dysphoria. One is for fun the other is a medical condition and to equate one as the other is disrespectful for both parties. People get mad at it because they not only realize the disrespect but the change completely messes up and ruins the core appeal of that character. Lastly doesn't the twitter crowed your appealing to hate it when trans people get sexualized? Why try and put them in the same camp. lastly if you don't know what gamergate was why didn't you go search for what it was, Gamergate was at the start about journalistic integrity due to people finding out that there were gaming journalist giving glowing review scores / giving awards to games and companies that they had personal gain from it's success. When finding out about it people went to the platforms and websites telling their bosses about that and lead to some changes in the platforms and punishing the people involved. After that said journalist angry that their scheme was discovered came out with serval articles calling gamers sexist and bigots and racist. Leading to public outcry resulting in the gamergate movement to be born. After that it was constant backs and forwards in arguments that devolved into tribalism, grifting and gaslighting. Making fun of people that use the word Woke towards superfluous things you can do that but if you don't look past those people and listen to the people that have legitimate complaints, your no better than those people you are laughing at and in some cases worse.

6:25 ok yeah Im with you on that one. And of course Sombrero Mario. Freaking coomers are just as bad as the twitter users if you ask me. 8:32 I dont really care how its localized I just dont want to localizer to put their politics in where it doesnt belong. Which happens a lot. 8:52 which is why I say this... Sometimes those changes are good. 9:40 Yeah im reading what youre reading. This isnt just a good translation but the suggested translation by the person complaining is just flat and boring in comparison. The job of a translator is to get at the idea of the original, not necessarily to translate it word for word. But still, the idea of the original. And this clearly does that. I can see some translations I understand having an issue with, the top one at 9:50 for instance, they clearly didnt want to say "old women" but like its not terrible. 10:14 pretentious? Its called entertainment. 12:16 this is the exact thing I was talking about people putting politics where they dont belong. Its freaking everywhere and not everyone agrees with that concept. 12:48 Madeline from Celeste is a prime example. See to me that inverses the actual message of the game. Which kind of hurts. Oh yeah and Bridget and Vivian, still not trans in japan, that's all localization. Im pretty sure not even in localization with Bridget irrc. Femboys are a thing. Japanese culture is weird with that, but its not the same thing as trans. 13:12 that's because it wasnt decided to be a thing until after the game was out for a while. Yes that DLC. It wasnt even a thing before that. Again, it warps the actual message of the game to be the opposite. Because being trans isnt accepting yourself as you are, its chasing whatever you think in your head you should be. Which you never will be. I couldnt live like that, and I dont think anyone should. 14:08 like I said Japanese culture is weird about that, its like slightly different. People can translate it that way but this is a cross-cultural misunderstanding.

"People existing isn't a controversy." THANK YOU! As a trans woman, I find the fact that characters like me just seemingly aren't allowed to exist without it becoming some major fucking "controversy" so tiring.

You are wildly ignorant to the Stellar Blade controversy. The point of the Stella Blake controversy is that they promised no censorship at all on launch, they broke their promise, people got angry. What is so hard to understand?

Transphobes need to get a life. It's so blatantly obvious when people are being bigots for the sake of it and I'm very happy you call out the real examples of that bs.

3. views in 1min bro fell of💀

I’m so glad I’ve moved on from those “anti woke” channels because those channels are dull of negativity and rage besides it’s meaningless to make videos like that like yellow flash vara dark EndymionTv etc all of those channels spread misinformation and make a big deal out of nothing like “this character is WOKE” “Disney is WOKE” etc etc while Disney is pretty bad now for many other reasons it’s not because it’s “woke”

Luis as always having based an correct opinions

Wow I REALLY must’ve been living under a rock cause I have not once ever heard of gamergate until watching this video. Imma count my blessings for that alone