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Genshin Impact [b] is a 2020 action role-playing video game produced by MiHoYo/HoYoverse. [ c ] The game features an anime -style open world environment and an action-based battle system using elemental magic and character-switching.
There have been a number of controversies surrounding race and video games, including public debates about Resident Evil 5, [36] Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, [37] Left 4 Dead 2, BioShock Infinite, Homefront, World of Warcraft, [38] Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Genshin Impact. [39] [40]
In addition, chat in Chinese video games is subject to similar or even wider restrictions as elsewhere on the Chinese Internet. For example, the chat in the English-language version of Genshin Impact censors not only swear words but also words such as Taiwan, Tibet, Hong, Kong, Falun Gong, Stalin, Hitler and Putin.
When historians, creators, and storytellers do this, they’re guilty of whitewashing, in modern vernacular. According to one Merriam-Webster definition, to whitewash is to “gloss over or cover ...
As applied to entertainment, whitewashing generally refers to the practice of casting White actors in non-White roles in order to appeal to larger audiences, at the expense of diverse representation.
The characters of Genshin Impact have enjoyed positive reception, especially in terms of revenue: as Genshin Impact is a gacha game, much of its revenue comes from sales of in-game currency players use to obtain characters. Most revenue comes from limited character banners.
Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.
Amid early criticism and fears of whitewashing, the cast of the highly anticipated sci-fi series “3 Body Problem” says it does justice to the original Chinese novels.