獣耳会社ｗａｎ on Nostr: Not just websites. One particularly egregious example I remember was Edge magazine ...

Not just websites. One particularly egregious example I remember was Edge magazine – which for a long time was considered the trendiest and most respectable source of games writing – grabbing an obscure FF7 doujin game that had Aerith nude scenes, strongly implying it was something from the Japanese mainstream, and using it to shit on Japanese games in general.

Don't underestimate the bubbling resentment of Japan (encouraged by American publishers) that flowed beneath a lot of Western games writing of the late '90s to 2010s.