1000xRESIST has a strong sense of specificity around Hong Kong, filial piety, generational trauma, et cetera (@highimpactsex's review goes into more detail than I possibly could), and most of it is completely disconnected from the specifics of my own life as the child of an immigrant. I feel like I saw a fair bit of "if you're Asian, you GOTTA play this game!" going around and well, I guess I'm not the right kind of Asian. Not the game's fault. Is it my fault? Not really, but it feels like it is.
The phrase "a dull knife is no knife at all" echoes throughout the second half, and I can't help but think about it from this (likely unintended) angle. Oh well.
Apart from that whole sphere of things, it's a solid science fiction story told well, easily worth the price of admission for that alone. Cool game.
I haven't played 1000xRESIST yet (though I plan to), but I've heard a lot of this sentiment going around. It sounds very similar to when the movie EEAAO (Everything Everywhere All At Once) came out. I left my viewing thinking that all my Asian immigrant friends should watch it as well.
I was wrong, of course.
It did not jive with a bunch of them. Out of a group of 20 Asian immigrants, about 8 of them strongly disliked it (including my brother, who probably shares as much a similarity in upbringing to me), 5 thought it was 'just okay', and the remaining 7 loved it just as much as I do.
It's hard then, for the 8 who disliked the movie to reconcile their lack of connection to it. Harder still when there's so many twitter posts and review blogs shouting about how EEAAO is the "quintessential" Asian experience. There's a frustration because there was no dodging the hype, just a constant daily reminder of "I guess you're not Asian enough" or "must be nice to grow up so white-washed since you didn't go through these horrible experiences" permeating their online conversations. We've lost a lot of our nuance to social media.
My partner was one of these people. It was interesting to hear how isolated she suddenly felt; to go to a gathering and having people rave about it so much and how well it spoke to them. It got to the point where she developed a slight aversion to watching anything with Michelle Yeoh.
