If you remember, the early days of Hogwarts Legacy for sale were particularly controversial as a very small portion of users decided to take JKRowling’s famous song – and some allegedly transphobic statements – to try and derail it, I came to burst the streams live they talked about the game and besiege in social networks all job favorable to the title of Warner. Now with shades something similar happens with atomic heart.
background communism
Go ahead, in this article we are not going to enter into debates on ideologies because, among other things, we are not here to talk about these things (fortunately) so we’ll stick to the facts
The obvious atomic heart uses all the Soviet imagery to give coherence to its narrativeto symbols which, in many countries in the east of our continent, have been banned and which the European Union itself has publicly condemned in resolutions such as that on “the importance of European historical memory for the ‘Future of Europe’, which condemns It specifies the crimes of Nazism and Communism.
Our hero in the game is an agent of a USSR who, due to circumstances of a dystopian past, was able to develop amazing technology which served to make it practically the hegemonic regime of the world and that in atomic heart it is obvious that it appears as a kind of orderly, prosperous and ideal society which, obviously, had nothing to do with the reality that tens of millions of people lived in the 20th century.
The cancellation of video games
For diametrically opposed reasons, these two games have been pilloried by some of the users. For one, the reasons for cancellation were of a different nature, but in any case, there are those who believe that the two should be eliminated from the stores or, at least, try to prevent them from succeeding by doing assert criticism of the approach – almost always political – that they believe they see behind it. This was stated in the case of atomic heart
We are entering into particularly complicated areas because the political stakes go hand in hand and there are very different sensitivities depending on what everyone has seen or experienced, but do you think that the two requests for cancellation are justified, both in the case of Hogwarts Legacy as in the of atomic heart? Do you think that these attempts to cancel certain groups and organizations are legitimate or, on the contrary, do you think that all artistic activity – and video games are art – should be excluded from this type of debate?
Here, your opinion is important.
