Congrats on finishing the game, Belle! I really loved it. The level of quality and polish is super impressive, the writing is excellent and the gameplay really compelling.
There was one thing that bothered me a bit. Yeah, I know, it's hypocritical to make moral objections to other details in a game where you play as a serial rapist, but I thought the racial stuff (The Fomorians, portrayed here as Black, being a cursed race or nation, roleplaying master/slave with Samarra, Nell's Korean-looking features being because her mother was not human) was… iffy. I see that this was discussed before, and I'm glad to see that you denounce racism (glad but not surprised, since—these tropes aside—you write Nell and Samarra as sensitively and respectfully as any of the other characters), but I can't say I find your response wholly persuasive: Yeah, the game is set in a fantasy world, but it's made and played by people in our world, and the meanings and interpretations of details like this are going to resonate with reality.
I have no wish to get into a protracted argument, so maybe just take it as another person noting it as a concern.
There was one thing that bothered me a bit. Yeah, I know, it's hypocritical to make moral objections to other details in a game where you play as a serial rapist, but I thought the racial stuff (The Fomorians, portrayed here as Black, being a cursed race or nation, roleplaying master/slave with Samarra, Nell's Korean-looking features being because her mother was not human) was… iffy. I see that this was discussed before, and I'm glad to see that you denounce racism (glad but not surprised, since—these tropes aside—you write Nell and Samarra as sensitively and respectfully as any of the other characters), but I can't say I find your response wholly persuasive: Yeah, the game is set in a fantasy world, but it's made and played by people in our world, and the meanings and interpretations of details like this are going to resonate with reality.
I have no wish to get into a protracted argument, so maybe just take it as another person noting it as a concern.