Why do Japanese game devs think American men have haircuts like that?
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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I mean... Harry's haircut was pretty common here when Silent Hill 2 was originally made. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
The remake is still set in the 90's, right?
To this day, go see a Japanese game about Americans. Resident evil, devil may cry etc. All the Americans running around with Asian haircuts. That's really what it is. They design American characters but they all have Japanese hairstyles.
First of all, while mines is darker brown, that cut is pretty close to me recently. Not me outta bed or while fighting a demi god, but for those 20 seconds after combing it and occasionally throughout the day...
Now, I'm not all American men. Yes we have varity in our hair types and colors and styles. But it's the same reason Americans think something about English peeps, and Indians think something about Brazilian peeps. And so on. Its cause they don't live there and have limited experince with that particular group of the other.
Games (movies and books and whatever else) shouldn't homogenize any group too much. But to be fair, it's fucking hard depicting people.
I think, if you look at Japanese games. Even when they depict an American or Western person, they tend to have Japanese or Asian style hair and haircuts.
So it won't exist until after October 2025 okay.