I don’t think Japanese people spend as much time thinking about the west as you think.

Maybe “pretentious cinematic thrid person action game” and “buggy eSports 2000s nostalgia bait” games just don’t appeal to people in Japan as much as it does in the west.

Mario Kart is just a fun and accessible racing game.

Autism/neurodivergentcy requires a kind of radical open-mindedness to adapt to society, and I’d imagine that that lends itself towards being more open to alternative platforms.

F-Zero 99 is so much fun.

As a European, its funny watching these guys talk about “Europe” as this pure implementation of their motorphobic utopia.

A lot of us still drive daily yanks!

Our government can’t pay doctors, but it can give away trillions to private corporations and constantly raise the pay of politicians.