It's because it looks to be a genuinely good game based on a classic novel called Journey to the West, and it getting people around the world interested in Chinese culture. This is directly challenging the US cultural hegemony, and hence westoids are losing it.
Apparently one of the reviews gave it a fairly low score citing “lack of diversity” (apparently because of a lack of female characters) and it sparked a controversy on the internet where the chuds went “this is DEI wokeness gone to the extreme trying to apply their standards to other cultures!” and some of the libs defended the decision with “this is proof that CCP does not respect women’s rights and the devs are misogynists!”
It’s kind of like that TERF Harry Potter game that came out a while ago where the controversy only brought more attention to the game and the sales actually went up because everyone was talking about it.
It's cool. Miyazaki has spent ten years ruthlessly training me how to parry his bullshit. if I can parry that fucking bull I can parry his bullshit, whatever he said.
I like some of his takes, like the one about how it's important to actually observe living beings instead of just making fan copies of fan copies of some old cartoon based upon a living being from a long time ago in a way that makes anime derivative and repetitive instead of a fresh experience.