generally arknights’ biggest failures are with regards to how it handles the global south. despite improving over time, Sargon is still kind of a massive trainwreck for a variety of reasons, which i wrote about here and here. otherwise one of the biggest issues is that despite engaging heavily with the concept of empire, the actual perspective of people under colonialism is almost entirely absent. i adore Black Forest Wills A Dream and the Tara arcs but the only reason we even KNOW indigenous Columbians exist is because of two throwaway comments; one by Cannot in Vigilo and one by Skybox in Unrealized Realities. the indigenous people of Rim Billiton are only mentioned in supplemental media, there’s only IMPLICATIONS of south asia existing in Arknights at all with faceless characters like Private Patel/concepts like the Anasa and Indra’s codename, and southeast asia and west/central/south/east africa are totally absent so far. and finally there’s AK shooting themselves in the foot in early worldbuilding with things like making the Wendigo a key part of the setting and naming Lappland after a region named for a racial slur. their unwillingness to retcon these aspects is pretty distressing and unpleasant to the people whose mistreatment AK is trying to gesture at.