If Zidane were black and still had his tail...would FFIX be rascist?

[Vivisteiner]

^Yeah, that would be cool. Ive never seen it before, but one of the FFXIII images looked like there might be one.

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[Suvious]

Aaah I think Square were sitting there saying "We re-graphiced the games... We're running out of ideas here people! We've been regraphicing them for the last 6 games now what!? I know... this is crazy... but... a new area...?"
"DON'T BE CRAZY JOHNSON!"
"Crazy enough to work..?"

[BG-57]

I think the Veldt in FFVI would count as savannah.

But I agree that African influences are underrepresented.

[Depression Moon]

Yeah most definetly I would think it would've been racist. I vaguely thought that Barret was stereotypical there were some suspicions, but if they did that to Zidane then most definetly.

[Suvious]

^ I laughed thinkin it was a Mr.T mick take xD
But, if FF was to START in an African area, i.e savannah, and you had Zidane would it be called racist?

[Unstoppable Pig]

I think if Kuja was black, game would have been definately accused of being racist. I mean black guy who has interesting choice of clothes and he gets beaten by white people and some other freaks.

Turn any main FF-villain into black and it would be called racist game. I find funny that Resident Evil 5 is accused being racist. C´mon Chris is in Africa where majority of population is black. Wtf you expect? Some grazy spanish villagers in Africa???

[Vinhsynd]

... I call my wife monkey. She sort of looks like one and tends to eat a lot of bananas when she watches TV. However she's philipino - is it still ok to call her monkey?

[crazybayman]

I meant like big savannahs and places like that, in FF games there's nearly always: Western Style, A frozen wasteland, A desert, A chinese/japanese style city or vendor, a freaky scenery for the boss fight at the end.
I don't think tbh I've ever seen a savannah or anywhere like that o.0

Giza Plains in FFXII is certainly modelled after a Savanna, complete with dry and wet seasons.

Then there's the Estersand and Westersand, deserts not unlike that of the Sahara and Kalahari in Africa.

As well the architecture in Rabanastre, Nalbina and Bhujerba certainly seem to have Moroccan influences, in my opinion.

But back to having a black dude with a tail play Zidane - even if intents would not have been racist (or prejudice) there certainly would have been those accusing square of being racsist (or prejudice), resulting in a lot of backlash. Due to lingering sensitivity on that subject, Square certainly would never attempt something like that.

Although......

Screw the tail, make him a big black dude who swears constantly and carries the biggest gun he possibly can, everywhere he goes!

Even better! Everyone knows black people would rather have guns than hands. They'd use them more often anyway.

[Mercen-X]

Only extremists would have even picked up on it. You guys forget about Amarant though. The guy walks around like a freakin' ape. What if he were black? Holy Crap!

FF7: What about Vincent? Another black guy with a gun? What about Tifa? Black slut? Scarlet? Black skank? I always imagined Red XIII's voice being that of the all-too-good Morgan Freeman.

FF8: Was Kiros a shot at African culture?

FF10: What if all the Ronso had brown fur instead of blue/black fur? Would they have been considered a racist element? Wakka sounded Latino.

FF10-2: Rikku... black..?

Western Style

What is Western Style? Are you talking about Cowboys, etc? The only cowboy I remember is Irvine.
What's western?