Launched in early March for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S | X and PC, game received great reviews, but was criticized for having female protagonists
Split Fiction It is the newest success in the world of video games. The game was released just over a week ago, on March 6, and has just hit the mark of two million copies sold.
Highlighting the cooperation mechanics, in Split Fiction the player and a partner assume the roles of Mio and ZOEtwo writers attached to a simulation of their own ideas after a technology made to steal their creations wrong. To escape with intact memories, the pair needs to work as a team.
Even with success, having two female protagonists made the game target of criticism on the Internet, with criticism that it would be part of the “Woke” culture, a term used to refers to it ironically to initiatives concerned with practices of inclusion and diversity.
What the Split Fiction creator finds about the game being “Woke”
Responsible for the direction of the game, Josef Fares talked about it in an interview with the YouTube channel Fall Damage. He responded to a comment stating that Split Fiction It is “another game filled with feminist propaganda”.
What is this? I think it’s because it’s two women protagonists. This was based on my daughters. I don’t care what you have between my legs. I don’t care. Good characters are what matters. “
In the answer, Fares also mentioned other success games directed by him: Brothers: Tale of Two Sons, Way Out and IT Takes Two. The producer recalled that in the first two, the protagonists are men, while in the last the duo is formed by a man and a woman. “Now [em Split Fiction] Are they two women and everyone complaining? Wait there, man. “
Split Fiction It is available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S | x and PC. On the assessment aggregating website Metacriticthe game received the grade 91 – from the total of 100 possible points. With the success, the game already appears among one of the strong competitors for the best of the year award, which Josef Fares won in 2021 with IT Takes Two.
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