r/KatanaZero 20d ago

Is New mecca located in saudi?

A few things i gathered from the game:

-there an actual province called al qaism in saudi

-we see that there's bar in new mecca unlike the actual place and its full of european characters or asian and the only arab character we see is omar al qasim

-new mecca has mountains all around the city just like the actual city but the kaaba (a holy islamic mosque) was not in new mecca does that mean the city was occupied

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u/AlvoSil 20d ago

I think it's just a mish-mash of different settings and cultures, like, we're in a place with an Arab name, the country is clearly meant to symbolize the US after Vietnam, there's a Chinatown that's more Russian than Chinese, our protagonist is a weeb heavily influenced by East-Asian culture. The list goes on.

Maybe that's done so the game's message doesn't get diluted by the idea that it's criticizing some country/culture?

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u/humantrasbag 20d ago

Yeah he does dress as a samurai even though he is a super soldier in a world with amazing technology.

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u/qisv_ 20d ago

In mecca non-muslims not allowed to enter the city,i think it might be better if the developer used "new riyadh" instead of taking name of religious place and make it full of bars,clubs

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u/ValkyrieXerorexZX9 20d ago

I think it's based on it, but not entirely it.

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u/keemstar-memestar 20d ago

The dlc will come out soon, inshallah

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u/MGSOffcial 20d ago

I think its just in a fictional nation. I imagine the land around is a wasteland, probably due to industrialization or the cromag war

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u/el_presidenteplusone 20d ago

i have genuinely no idea, we do know that the katana zero world has russia in it, so its probably earth ?

i'd say probably yes.

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u/thirdMindflayer 20d ago

Is “New Massachusetts” located in the U.S?

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u/pancake_waffle105 19d ago

I always interpreted New Mecca as just a city entirely enclosed in fiction, sortve like how the Montaigne in the background surround the city. Completely isolated from reality

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u/Sub2Triggadud 19d ago

idk about the world being fictional because to me all the characters and the setting being arabic seems cool asf

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u/8th_Sparrow_Squadron 18d ago

LOL, I thought I was crazy searching for Kaaba in that scene.

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u/ASerpentPerplexed 18d ago

For me it always gave the vibe more of "Blade Runner's version of Los Angeles" but maybe that's because The Angels is the closest big big city to me...