Psychonauts: "El Odio" is given away rather earlier if you happen to speak Spanish. (Go ahead, auto-translate "el odio".) The company that made it hails from San Francisco, where possibly 90,000 people speak Spanish just within city limits and certainly more across the region. I know all this because I'm also from California, like almost 40 million people. That might all be just a lazy way to not name a dude, except those Spanish speakers who are most likely to play a game called Psychonauts are disproportionately familiar with psychology, especially pop-psych that video game designers can relate to like "anger once held me back from accomplishing my goals, like making this game".
We must conclude that it was an intentional choice to give Spanish speakers a window into the true nature of the character. Being terrible at video games, the only reason I can figure for this is to make a metacommentary on what games owe to demographics that have faced real-life odio. ETA: Or I guess they just felt that giving the two major language groups in their audience fundamentally different experiences was "psychonauting" all its own. Or they had some other motive for giving players two different experiences, maybe assuming that a bigot would attack El Odio for his purported ethnicity and then be forced to sympathize with his target, or telling a story about how persecuted minority groups can channel hatred into self-care (which I mean in the original revolutionary sense, not wine night in the tub)
Psychonauts: "El Odio" is given away rather earlier if you happen to speak Spanish. (Go ahead, auto-translate "el odio".) The company that made it hails from San Francisco, where possibly 90,000 people speak Spanish just within city limits and certainly more across the region. I know all this because I'm also from California, like almost 40 million people. That might all be just a lazy way to not name a dude, except those Spanish speakers who are most likely to play a game called Psychonauts are disproportionately familiar with psychology, especially pop-psych that video game designers can relate to like "anger once held me back from accomplishing my goals, like making this game".
We must conclude that it was an intentional choice to give Spanish speakers a window into the true nature of the character. Being terrible at video games, the only reason I can figure for this is to make a metacommentary on what games owe to demographics that have faced real-life odio. ETA: Or I guess they just felt that giving the two major language groups in their audience fundamentally different experiences was "psychonauting" all its own. Or they had some other motive for giving players two different experiences, maybe assuming that a bigot would attack El Odio for his purported ethnicity and then be forced to sympathize with his target, or telling a story about how persecuted minority groups can channel hatred into self-care (which I mean in the original revolutionary sense, not wine night in the tub)
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