[專家意見] 難以重製的種族歧視遊戲 - 生化危機5

The Resident Evil Game That Can't Be Remade (It's time to rewrite, not remake.) BY MATT PURSLOW MAR 13, 2024 9:13 PM https://www.ign.com/articles/the-resident-evil-game-that-cant-be-remade 截取部分新聞內容 Remakes can, of course, completely redefine the structure of their source material. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, for example, is recognisably an updated version of the classic RPG, but its world design and gameplay mechanics are a world apart from the 1997 original. And so you could argue that Resident Evil 5 is actually the Resident Evil most in need of a remake. A whole new environmental structure and scenario design that reigns in the action and dials up the horror would bring it in-line with Capcom’s other remakes. But all of this doesn’t account for Resident Evil 5’s most notorious problem: racism. 當然，重製可以完全重新定義其原始資料的設定。例如，《最終幻想 7：重生》顯然是經 典RPG的更新版本，但其世界設計和遊戲機制與1997年的原版截然不同。所以你可能會說 《生化危機 5》其實是最需要重製的《生化危機》。全新的環境結構和場景設計主導了動 作並加劇了恐怖感，這將使其與Capcom的其他重製版保持一致。但這一切都無法解決 《生化危機 5》中最臭名昭著的問題：種族主義。 Set in a fictional West African country, Resident Evil 5’s primary antagonists are Black people. Yes, technically it’s the Uroboros virus that protagonist Chris Redfield is fighting, but the parasite’s host is mdepicted as a nation of mobs and primitives who are violent even before their infection. Intentionally or not, Resident Evil 5 positions Africa as the Dark Continent’, an uncivilised world harbouring a diseased population that needs gunning down via Western intervention in the name of global security. 《生化危機 5》以一個虛構的西非國家為背景，其主要敵人為黑人。是的，從故事上講， 主角Chris Redfield正在對抗的是《Uroboros》病毒，但寄生蟲的宿主被描繪成一個由 暴民和原始人組成的國家，他們在感染之前就充滿了暴力。無論有意或無意，《生化 危機 5》將非洲定位為“黑暗大陸”，這是一個不文明的世界，孕育著一群患病人口，需 要西方以全球安全的名義進行幹預，將其槍殺。 This insensitive treatment of people of colour was hotly debated even as early as Resident Evil 5’s debut trailer, with writers such as N’Gai Croal and Stephen Totilo pointing out the game’s uncomfortable, post-colonial imagery. The arguments and think-pieces continued well into the game’s release window, with IGN’s own former editor-in-chief Hilary Goldstein having also wrestled with the subject. But that was 2009 – a time when race was apparently a debate rather than a reality. In the 2020s, in a post-Black Lives Matter world, there is only one acceptable response to a white man shooting waves of Africans for an entire video game: no. 早在《生化危機 5》首次發布預告片時，這種對有色人種的麻木不仁的對待就引起了激烈 的爭論，N'Gai Croal和Stephen Totilo等作家指出了遊戲中令人不安的後殖民意象。這 些爭論和思考一直持續到遊戲發布窗口，IGN 的前主編希拉里·戈德斯坦 (Hilary Goldstein)也對這個主題進行了爭論。但那是 2009 年，當時種族問題顯然是一場爭論， 而不是現實。在 2020 年代，在「後黑人生命也是命」的世界中，對於一名白人在整個電 子遊戲中向非洲人射擊一波又一波的行為，只有一種可以接受的回應：不。 後面專欄作者建議Capcom直接重寫時間線 讓《生化危機 5》整個重寫而非重製 -- 今晚你選那一個姿勢?? ○ "○ ○" ○" (|\ (|\ )) )) ○╭○rz ○rz ○rz-st○ /`○rz /`○r27\" ○r27\" ￣′ ○=^ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 218.173.24.240 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/C_Chat/M.1710382555.A.084.html