Earlier this month, the social justice left found itself in an uproar when the game "Stellar Blade" featured a woman who is actually attractive as its protagonist. As I covered then, the Western trend in media, especially video games, is to make women less attractive than they actually are in order to "respect women" and deny the "male gaze." 

The creators of "Stellar Blade," a South Korean studio called "Shift Up," are actively pushing against Western social justice cultural censorship efforts causing gamers all over America to vow to make "Stellar Blade" a day-one purchase and support the cause of fighting radicalized censorship. 

@thebrandonmorse The controversy around Stellar Blade is rooted in dumb jealousy and bad idealism. #stellarblade #gaming #videogames #women #shiftup #feminism #entertainment ♬ original sound - TheBrandonMorse

(READ: The Drama of 'Stellar Blade': The Game With a Sexy Female Protagonist That Has Leftists Furious)

Now, it appears a much bigger studio is resisting Western censorship efforts. Square-Enix, popular for the world-renowned Final Fantasy series, is ignoring pressure to make women in its games less attractive and giving some of its more popular female characters their assets back. Particularly that of Tifa Lockhart of "Final Fantasy VII" fame. 

Back in 2019, Square-Enix obeyed social justice pressure to make Tifa Lockhart's figure a little less voluptuous. As I reported then, the social justice left complained incessantly that Tifa was a character built for the male gaze, and that she needed to be censored and reduced in breast size, a demand Square-Enix obeyed. However, as I wrote at the time, it wasn't about Tifa's attractiveness but more about exerting control and advancing the social justice cause. 

(READ: It Was Never About the Breasts: SJW Outrage Over Depictions of Women Is About Control, Not Care)

Square-Enix has seemingly reversed this decision now. As YouTuber YellowFlash reported in a recent video, a bathing suit scene in "Final Fantasy VII" is now making a comeback for its remake "Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth" which features the women characters, including Tifa, in bathing suits. 

Before people begin thinking this is just a bunch of gamers being creeps and wanting to just see women with huge....tracts of land, I should interject and say this is ultimately not about a character's breasts. 

What this is ultimately about is resisting the efforts of a few moral busybodies who have no business telling everyone else how to live and behave by infecting business, hobbies, and art and reducing the quality in significant ways until the product is completely undesirable for consumption. 

You can see this happening in various places, not just in the video game industry. 

For instance, the entertainment industry as a whole has severely declined in quality making good movies and television shows an exception, not the rule. Disney is so infected the social justice and DEI that few truly get worked up about a Disney release nowadays and the company is bleeding money. 

The same thing can be said about other fields. Airlines and even the Federal Aviation Administration hire based on identity and not skill or merit, and now you have a serious decline in quality and competency which is, even now, putting lives in danger. 

The pushback from the gaming community against this level of Western leftist influence might seem like a fight for boobs, but what it really is is a fight against the same socio-political takeover being seen in many other industries that kills the quality and kills the love of the product. It's bad for the community that surrounds it and thus it's bad for business, art, and escapism.

Square-Enix seems to be learning this lesson. Mentions of its embrace of ESG seem to have been wiped from its Japanese website. 

Square Enix Japan's website has erased completely their section of ESG. The only remaining file on the internet is an old PDF. This could be a decision from the new CEO Takashi Kiryu and the pressure on the public. Please double-check if you have any doubts. pic.twitter.com/SvHybwSf0j

— LearningTheLaw (@Mangalawyer) February 22, 2024

This seems to be a trend in Japan, which saw companies in the country divest billions of dollars from ESG funds with many more seeming to gear up to walk away in the coming few years. 

(READ: Japan Is Kicking ESG to the Curb, Divests Billions)

This is really great news as ESG has been a plague, not just on the businesses that adopted them, but on society as a whole. Thanks to ESG, the quality of many products has tanked significantly. This leftist push of social politics into the business sector can't end soon enough and while Western companies still seem to be struggling with it, Japan's heading seems to be away. 

ESG empowered many of these social justice-obsessed leftists to call the shots in the corporate world but their grip, while still tight, seems to be slipping. 

Thus, Tifa's getting her groove back. 

There are many fronts in the culture war and the gaming community is definitely one of the places where the fighting is the hardest. While mainstream political news doesn't often like to cover the gaming industry or other industries where the left is taking losses, RedState does. 

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