While the Nu Pogodi! clip noticed by Resetera was deleted from Twitter, “Museum” in its entirety can be viewed on YouTube. The game’s 12th featured episode of Nu Pogodi!, titled “Museum,” features a brief shot of a racist portrayal of an African tribesman firing an arrow With a slapstick style and animation chops reminiscent of a Tom and Jerry cartoon, episodes of Nu, Pogodi! depict a Soviet wolf’s futile attempts to apprehend a cunning hare. Folks on web forum Resetera noticed one of the cartoons that plays in the game’s save rooms depicts a racist caricature of an African person.Īccording to PC Gamer, Atomic Heart’s save rooms include episodes of a real cartoon from 1969 called Nu, Pogodi! ( Well, Just You Wait!). Turns out that calling Atomic Heart the “Russian BioShock” doesn’t just pertain to its telekinetic gameplay mechanics, but the imagery used within its mythos as well. Kotaku reached out to Focus Entertainment and Mundfish for comment. “We all told you that this would happen, but you wanted to fund the game that pays their government and military to traffick, r*pe, torture, and kill our women.” “The game is glorifying sexual assault and has Ukrainian-looking robot sex slaves? *pretends to be shocked*,” Kay tweeted. Straight up based the sex slave robots design off of Yulia Tymoshenko… The leader of the Ukrainian 'Batkivshchyna' political party /Y0hmef2xHB- Dinka Kay | TENEBRIX February 21, 2023 While the similarities between Tymoshenko and the female robot twins’ could be considered a stretch, the crux of this controversy isn’t about their similar hairstyles so much as it is the fact that they’re allegedly Ukranian sex slave robots. This similarity between the twins and Tymoshenko was first spotted by YouTuber Dinka Kay on Twitter. Many of Atomic Hearts player base have admitted to feeling some kind of way whenever the twins mount Nechayev’s dying body and puncture it with holes. The twins feature prominently in Atomic Heart’s advertisements, box art, and trailers. The twins, who serve as one the bodyguards for scientist Dmitry Sechenov, are highly evolved humanoid robots with ballerina-esque body types, crown braid hairstyles, featureless faces, and red stars on their foreheads. Next up on the list of Atomic Heart controversies is the eerie resemblance its female robot twins have with Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the Batkivshchyna party in Ukraine. “We also want to emphasise that the game developers have not publicly condemned the Putin regime and the bloody war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine.” The robot twins’ likeness “We also urge limiting the distribution of this game in other countries due to its toxicity, potential data collection of users, and the potential use of money raised from game purchases to conduct a war against Ukraine,” Bornyakov wrote in a statement on Dev.au (translated to English by PCGamesN). According to Video Games Chronicle, Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, asked Sony, Microsoft, and Valve to remove Atomic Heart from Ukraine’s digital stores. While Mundfish has remained vague over its stance on the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian government wants Atomic Heart pulled from its online storefronts. Read More: Doom Composer Donates His Atomic Heart Fee To Ukraine After Russia Controversy Kotaku reached out to Mundfish and the game’s publisher, Focus Entertainment, for comment. However, in an interview with the Russian press, GEM Capital founder Anatoliy Paliy said GME Capitol doesn’t just serve as Atomic Heart’s investor, it’s also actively involved in the game’s fundraising, strategy development, and operational decisions. When Eurogamer asked about GEM Capital’s level of involvement with Atomic Heart, Mundfish did not provide a comment. Mundfish’s unclear stance on the war in Ukraine isn’t helped by the fact that the financial success of Atomic Heart will likely benefit Russia via Mundfish’s investor, GEM Capital. Read More: Ukraine Game Developers Respond To Russian Invasion Īccording to Eurogamer, Mundfish’s tweet omitted the fact that its team was originally from Moscow, and that Russian media outlets represent it as a Russian studio. We do not, and will not, condone contributors or spammers with offensive, hateful, discriminatory, violent, or threatening language or content.” Rest assured we are a global team focused on getting Atomic Heart into the hands of gamers everywhere. “We do not comment on politics or religion. “We want to assure you that Mundfish is a developer and studio with a global team focused on an innovative game and is undeniably a pro-peace organisation against violence against people,” Mundfish tweeted.
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