The point is that the boring run-of-the-mill stuff doesn’t get exported.
Western film audiences got to form a highly positive opinion of Japanese movies from the works of Ozu, Kurosawa, Oshima.
Similarly American gamers in the Amiga era got a handful of the most original French games and formed their opinion of “Frenchness in gaming” based on those.
Would you say that by example Ray man was weird/unusual ? It sure has exported itself. Also raving rabbits.
Rayman definitely fits with the “quirky French” narrative. The other game I don’t know.
Funny that I didn't see it (I'm french). What do you find quirky in it ? (Talking about the first 2d one by example)
I think it is like when people in the USA say that all BBC shows are of such high quality compared to all the garbage we have here. We only get the best of the best from those countries so we think everything from them is amazing.
Pff. This is only true for about 0.1% of French games, most of the other ones were typical generic games you'd find everywhere else and not particularly original at all. It's like judging Japanese movies by taking Kurosawa's movies as representative.