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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9175796" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As an American, yes, she has an accent. I'm not sure if I could have identified it as precisely as Ruin Explorer did, but I agree with their analysis. Like someone who grew up in a context where you spoke RP to your elders and Cockney to your friends until the two kind of blended together. Her way of saying "soldier," for instance, is very Cockney, but many of her vowels are crisp and full, as opposed to the generally more bitten-off/clipped way Cockney accents are depicted.And, for all my love of CBU3, it also:1. Kills off all important gay and bi (or at least bi-coded) characters2. Repeatedly puts the female lead in situations of sexualized violence3. Portrays both of the major female villains as petty, spiteful, cruel, and twisted, with the "screaming banshee" in one case and the actively abusive "black widow" in the other5. Frequently relies on different characters being either incredibly foolish, actively avoiding communication about basic stuff, in blatant and ridiculous denial about obvious facts, or manipulated by the smallest things with no effort to try to verify or confirm6. Makes the most emotional moments occur primarily between straight, white, male characters.And I don't even think FFXVI is problematic. It's flawed, to be sure, but not hostile or insulting. The gay character that dies in the narrative gets a serious send-off after having a real arc, and his death is a pretty clear noble sacrifice to enable the hero to save the world. He goes out fighting, not like a chump. And the bi-coded character is clearly shown to be in bad health from almost the moment you meet him. He gets a lingering death that haunts the main character long after it happens, an additional father figure (the game is overstuffed with them tbh) whose loss hurts lots of people.Agreed.</blockquote>

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