Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Drimn]

You bring up a good point. They were trying to be "respectful" of cultures, but then they sanitize something that was a part of early American culture? Yes, duels didn't historically happen all the time like in the movies, but they did happen. Hell one of our founding fathers was killed in a duel with the vice president. And one of our presidents, Andrew Jackson was a notorious duelist.

If they didn't want to have the duel end in death, there are ways around it. Historically, many duels were about honor. Both participants would just shoot into the ground because they had no intention to harm each other. Also before the invention of rifling, a lot of duels just ended with both participants missing each other, shrugging their shoulders because honor was satisfied, and goin home.

Whatever "cultural sensitivities" CBU3 was adhering to seems to be directed towards a group of people who wouldn't care that they got American culture wrong.

What's more likely is the consultants they hired to help them with "cultural sensitivities" view that aspect of American culture and history as a problem that needs to be fixed, and their writing is their way of trying to "clean it up." Honestly, if they were going to go Old West and think guns are icky, they could have at least done a poker match or something to that effect rather than the lame airsoft LARPing session they wrote instead. Or better yet, not done a really weak rendition of an Old West zone. I'd say they could go for a more pre-Columbian route, but with how disrespectful they were in Tural, they'd probably handle a pre-Columbian US about as well as Peter Pan or 1940s Looney Tunes did.

Did they say the bullets are rubber in Japanese as well, or is it just an English localization?

When Erenville's MOTHER DIED and he had JUST WATCHED HIS MOTHER DIE, Wuk Lamat starts yapping and then we just move on? Just like that?

Not just that, but Wuk Lamat, God-Queen of Empathy and Friendship, who had just lost her father very shortly before, takes her supposed best friend watching his mother die with a "damn that sucks moving on." All of the Scions are convinced she's a wonderful person, by the way, even the one that shares the Echo and occasionally gets a peek behind the fourth wall along with you. Nothing about her character makes sense unless she was written by someone that thinks self-serving posturing and patronizing are the keys to being a good and decent person rather than actually going out of your way for others that are in need and knowing how to put yourself in someone else's shoes.