Shadow Warrior — Bringing Cancel Culture To Life

By Mike Alexander

Some of you will remember a time before Call of Duty. Shit, some of you will remember a time before Pong. Shooters weren’t all about regenerating shields and cover shooting. Reloading? What’s that? So today for our gaming retrospective we’re bringing sexy back and checking out the first adventure of the not exactly high brow, Lo Wang.

We here at S35 Gaming love a good classic. We can fully appreciate a game that had a measurable impact that can be traced up to the modern day, as we did with Heretic a few videos ago.

Today, we are going to be discussing a similar game, though the influence it had was over something far, far different than the world of video games. The game we will be taking a look at in this month’s Acclaimed Game Retrospective is Shadow Warrior: the game that brought cancel culture to life.

But why is he doing that voice?

This might have been overtly hilarious in 1997, but Chinese caricatures are not looked upon with the same level of fondness now as they were back then… What’s that? We’re actually covering the 2013 remake? It’s not quite as bad and its humor is more based on wit rather than racial stereotyping? Oh, thank god.