Wokeness is a global pandemic that has entered the world of entertainment on a deep-rooted level and severely corrupted the very notion of creating content that is just simple hearted, light and fun without going all political over and drawing in all forms of unnecessary criticism. After movies and TV series, watching this disease making serious inroads into the world of video games as it corrupts their simplicity and fun is a horrible sight to watch.

Where once video game companies had the notion of creating fun and entertaining games without worrying about things such as being politically correct or being ‘cancelled’, now their first priority is to be more diverse in terms of character representation and design the game’s narrative to represent a certain political belief system. This takes away all the fun from games because gameplay is not the centre of attention and you are basically forced to swallow a despicable narrative that ruins the whole game.

Instead of creating games based on time-tested principles of making exciting innovative gameplay, characters whom you can connect with and stories that really hit home greatly adding to their replay value, companies these days have opted to cater to fake, self-righteous neo-Marxists and radical liberal feminists for whom diversity, inclusion, equity, and representation are everything.

This only made games which embrace woke narratives feel less like games and more like horrible chores which only leave people with an indescribable feeling of emptiness and frustration . Furthermore, games that go woke have a tendency to avoid risk and almost always play it safe while consciously mocking their audiences, making them only that much more annoying and redundant.

While it is good to have more diversity, inclusivity and representation by giving us characters of all kinds of skin colour, sexes and body builds, to make a game whose primary selling point is that it has a gay black muscular woman protagonist makes it less a game and more of a political statement. Video games are an art form and wokeness cheapens it by turning characters into stereotypes, stories into bad jokes and the game into a bad experience.