Punch-Out!! wins this category simply through ignorance. While everyone was up in arms about Modern Warfare 2's "No Russian" level, Punch-Out!! successfully got away with being offensive to almost every culture out there. The Indian fighter wears a turban and invokes mystical powers, the Japanese fighter expels sushi when hit, and the Russian character is named Vodka Drunkenski in the Japanese version (he drinks soda in the U.S. version). Let me repeat that: The Russian fighter's name is Vodka Drunkenski.
And no, being an equal-opportunity offender doesn't make it right. It just makes your game that much more insensitive of other cultures, Nintendo.
Runners-Up: Modern Warfare 2 , Resident Evil 5
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The characters are all so cartoonish that I don't see anyone getting seriously offended by them. It's all in good fun whereas Modern Warfare 2 was meant to be realistic.
What the fuck. It's called satire. If we can't make fun of other people's (and ourselves') cultures, what's the point of having it.
I'm not a big fan of the stereotypes either... I wonder if Punch-Out!! would hold as much charm without them.
Punch-Out!! wasn't much offensive. About as offensive as Jar Jar Binks, really.
Resident Evil 5 and Left 4 Dead 2 was much more offensive.
Resident Evil 5 and Left 4 Dead 2 was much more offensive.
It's exactly this kind of humorless attitude which wants the world to be a grey monotone rounded edge, in case of offending the colorblind or accidentally hurting those with sensitive skin. I'm one of those parodied (Aran Ryan's a vicious mockery of the Irish as thuggish trouble-making tinkers) and I laughed the whole way through. Especially during the Aran match.
Mocking everyone equally doesn't make it right - being funny and about as malicious as a declawed kitten makes it all right. Declaring it isn't because it refuses to chain itself in flavorless political correctness doesn't criticize the game, only the critic.
Mocking everyone equally doesn't make it right - being funny and about as malicious as a declawed kitten makes it all right. Declaring it isn't because it refuses to chain itself in flavorless political correctness doesn't criticize the game, only the critic.
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