Just based on shit what I read in this thread, I don't think that black characters in this game are political or that they bow to the Twitter culture.
Creative director of this game has darker skin, so I can see why he wanted to make something to look alike. I think the artstyle and all of that really fits well within the context of the game.
I feel strongly about this, due to Kingdom Come: Deliverance woke fiasco "You are white, making game about white nations, so why there are no darker skin characters?? Ur racist or something" and that impact me as well as the rest of the team heavily, pretty much everyone was attacked directly by journos or indirectly for being somewhat right wing...
So please don't do what twitter/journos did and let game devs do what they want to.
And scores really does not matter that much. I sank 120 hours in to Ascent, which reviewed poorly and it's one of my most favorite games of past 5 years.
I bought the game on PC, I like it, but liking it mainly because it feels like the Arkane game, I think some aspect are not really good, like AI, the whole loop thing, etc. I would go with 6, but I would go with average scores for a lot of 90+ titles...
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