Some parts of this game seemed very cute, but due to the racist stereotypes it employs, I couldn't finish the first act. It's worse than one or two lines portraying prejudice held by characters in the game. The entire character of Ode is steeped in harmful black stereotypes. The black man in this game is portrayed as the biggest, the strongest, the hottest tempered, and the most ignorant. It doesn't matter if later on, we see that maybe he's not so bad. The whole foundation of this character is racist.
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While explaining how the character came to be won't change or excuse any of the problems you pointed out, we would still like to say that most of the traits you mentioned were based on Bara tropes we wanted to subvert by also making Ode kindhearted and not overly masculine outside of physical traits.
That this overlaps with him being black and in that way plays into harmful stereotypes was an oversight on our part that we unfortunately can't retroactively change and we are sorry about any discomfort this has caused.
His temper and ignorance appear more extreme when he is confronted by Hans and were never meant to be defining aspects of his character. Given how prominent they are in his introduction we definitely see now that there is a problem with his portrayal and we will do what we can to fix this.
We are in the process of rewriting parts of the first two Acts that unnecessarily reinforced these stereotypes and will do all we can to stay aware and avoid these kinds of problematic portrayals in future Acts and projects.
Thank you for the feedback.