Talk:General Discussion/@comment-26326357-20150419073251

Oook, to quote a certain Guide to the Galaxy:

DON'T PANIC

Before rants about useless pasta and "the sky is falling" cries of dismay, let's consider a couple of things:

1 - That "penguin" looks a lot more like a toucan than a penguin (the tip of the beak is red and black)

2 - The fairy is eating pasta, yes, but looks fairly badass and emperor-like doing it, you have to admit

3 - The Italian family eating pasta is no more stereotypical than that one German fairly eating a bagel

4 - So far, the gun seems to be subpar, but its text description doesn't seem to be disparaging at all - the only thing people might complain about is the "country of pastas" bit, which brings us to:

5 - Japanese culture places a lot of importance on food, so mentioning pasta is for them more of a compliment than an insult - actually there are japanese players who are worrying about this possible misunderstanding right now - to give you an idea of just how different their point of view is from ours: I've seen people saying things along the lines "Well, I'd feel bad if they all called us sushi-eaters too, we have rice, miso, natto and other things after all..."

6 - Kadokawa is hyping this new ship a lot - with a lot of new tweets about her in this last few days. One of the tweets specifically describes her as a strong kanmusu, even. Which brings us to:

7 - If Kadokawa wanted to make a joke character, they could have used Giulio Cesare: 27knots (ie Slow) and 12,6" guns - it would have been pretty easy to make fun off, and her post-war conversion could have included another Russian ship in the game. Instead, they went with the Littorio class (most probably Vittorio Veneto given that she was commissioned on 28th April 1940), which is significantly more modern and powerful. I think this is encouraging. By the way, Vittorio Veneto was a really lucky ship, too.

8 - It is a common theory among Japanese fans that the new ship will have something - whether some kind of gimmick or something more mundane like a fit bonus - to offset the accuracy penalty. The impression is that they want these guns to be Italian exclusive, and they're achieving that by making them non-competitive on any other ship.