Reverse 1999 is very xenophobic and seeing yall gag over it is not it

So this new event over on Global is set in Brazil, in the city of são paulo. For those of yall that dont know, São Paulo is the biggest city in the americas. It is a huge concrete jungle, think new york, or tokyo, or london. Well, the new event is set in the 90's in a favela (a slum), except it isnt. The description and images we have seen of the place make it seem like a riverside community in the Amazon, in the north of the country, not a slum in one of the biggest cities in the world. They talk about an anaconda which, unless it escaped from a zoo, does not belong there and its overall really, really poorly researched and stereotypical.

If it ended there, it would be annoying, but expected from gacha games. The main issue comes from this tweet. This tweet to promote the game and the event is crazy. Brazil has a lot to criticze, but it is not a land of suffering and violence and bloody conflict and kidnappings and betrayal. It is a place like any other. Everywhere in the world has wealth inequalities, has suffering, has poverty and just like everywhere in the world, Brazil also has a lot of positive sides. This tweet is disgusting and extremely xenophobic. They didnt act like this in their events that took place in any other part of the world, why now? This is literally insulting the actual, real people that live in this place, who actually go through these struggles that this game is pretending to care about in order to make profit and claim some type of moral superiority over. Oh, and after all of that ending it with "hope you enjoy your visit, welcome to São Paulo" is insane.

But it still doesnt end there. Lets talk about the new characters. The main one isn't brazillian. Thats sucks, but whatever. Now the other one is called Mr. Duncan. They claim he is brazillian, but that name is not brazillian in any way, and the accent his VA put on sounds like its from anywhere but brazil (yes, his american va faked an accent that is not where the character is supposedly even from). So now that this is established, lets look at how mr. Duncan was announced to the world on twitter again. Oh, so hes a white savior. "While many see the favela as a place of crime and chaos, Duncan sees its hidden potential." Oh yeah, these violent, poor people that kidnapp and suffer can't do anything right, but the good, white, rich Mr. Duncan sees it as an opportunity! They should be grateful for "the hero that would appear and bring a glimmer of life to this land". Oh yeah, this is an actual quote from his in game story. Because these people need Mr. Duncan to come in and help them live life and be hopeful. Btw, did i mention that Mr. Duncan is an ex military? Yeah, the military dictatorship in brazil ended around 5 years before the story took place, and they werent very kind to poor people who lived in favelas. My mum saw a child who went to school with her get put in a truck by the military where he would disappear and be tortured purely because he was a black kid from the favela playing in the street, but my grandma who was a white, blond, lady started yelling at them and told them he was a friend and they ended up not taking him. Yeah, so, Mr. Duncan, is definetly a hero to the favela, for sure, definetly.

Tldr: this game is extremely xenophobic, racist and ignorant and it completely ignores the history and the geography of the place that they are trying to represent. All while trying to sell characters, skins and make money off of the actual suffering (that they misrepresent) of the people they are insulting. Dont spend your money on this game, and dont act like its this bastion of representation in the gacha industry.