Peach is a meme, though, and her habit of getting kidnapped is often mocked in-game. Not that it changes the fact that you have to rescue her, I guess, but it's hardly a serious attempt at story telling and Peach can own Bowser in lots of games, including 3D World.
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Nintendo celebrates Women's History Month with a little history of their female char.
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jediyoshi
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Oh no, your current examples got edited out ]:
WonderRade
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I need to show my wife this and hear what she thinks, it seems like a nice gesture by nintendo though
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
S.T.E.A.M. has some pretty cool women as well among its roster, all of them are pretty strong, not overly sexualized, two of them are P.O.C. (although this might be divisive since it's Tiger Lilly and Califia who have been held up as positive and negative portrayals), and despite the game being set in the late 1800s, they're all treated the same way as the men and rarely are their genders brought up, never put in distress and one of them is actually extremely proactive for pushing the plot along. Also none of the male characters ever comment on their looks, and they aren't given any half-hearted romantic elements because they're women.
It's a step up I think compared to Fire Emblem Awakening which at parts definitely seemed questionable despite having a large quantity of women among its roster...
It's a step up I think compared to Fire Emblem Awakening which at parts definitely seemed questionable despite having a large quantity of women among its roster...
Yea that got me pretty good too. Almost forgot about her tbh.
This means a new Paper Mario with party members now, right Nintendo? Q_Q
BeatResetsTheWorld
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Who besides the loli dragon was questionable?
For everyone hoping Bombette being there means something, it 99.99999999% doesn't mean anything. This was most likely done by whoever does the PR stuff for Nintendo and thought Nintendo should do something for Women's History Month. Took some existing renders and did a write-up for each character.
Pole dance & whoop-whoop.
When Iwata's outta town and making smartphone deals, NoA get cheeky.
I dunno, what about the part where it was made apparent how Ganondorf KNOWS that Tetra is Zelda, that he's spending every resource he has searching for her, or how her crew, loyal though they may be, are pretty much screwed against anything that actively attacks them? Oh i'm sorry; pragmatism takes a backseat to 'implications'...
I can't really think of any questionable crap from FEA, not even Nowi...
Dragon hybrids exist, they've been young girls before, and the fact that outside of her intro, the only people still griping about her design are all on the other side of the screens.
Ultimadrago
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Bombette for stronkest female
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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I didnt know there was a female bomb omb. I didnt even know bomb ombs had genders.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
A lot of the women characters tended to have characteristics that felt right-at-home in a harem manga.
All the characters in Awakening were pretty shallow and cliched, of course, but I felt it was the women more often than not who had personality types that seemed to follow the average 'fetish' personalities Japan does a lot. Tharja was the dark chick, Maribelle was the rich girl, Sumia was the klutz, etc.
It wasn't all bad, but I definitely think it was a step-down from the more grounded women present in past Fire Emblem who didn't seem to cater to the audience as much. But I guess Awakening as a whole was pretty catering in some extent, so it isn't really limited to the female characters, but in the wider picture of how women are objectified in video-games, I think it's worth noting.
K-A-Deman said:
Because the "really 1000 years old but in the body of a little girl" is a played out trope in Japan that is hard to take at face value as not specifically being included to pander? Even if it makes sense in Fire Emblem lore, doesn't mean people won't be put off by it. The localization actually toned it down I've read, where the Japanese version was apparently even more upfront about what the character was going for and more infantile.
That would take Nintendo of America, but it's Nintendo of America.
There should be a thread called
'where were you when you found out samus was a female '
3rd grade, it was just a rumor, no one believed it at first, I was eating 3 big linden cookies at my desk, no way is samus a girl, she shoots guns!
This was in the 80's by the way
dragonbane
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Where is Midna :/
AnkiRendan
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LOL.
Happy for the Lucina mention. Too bad the first female Pokemon champ didn't show up.
I'm still holding on to my shreds of hope that it will get localized someday.As if they would ever include anything from mother 3...like smash 4
Neff
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Nintendo owns the Bayonetta 2 game and associated assets/media. They probably also have a contract clause enabling them to use assets from the Bayo 1 port for the purpose of promotion.
What they don't own is the Bayonetta IP and by extension creative influence over any future Bayonetta projects. That's entirely Sega's to do with as they please, unless Nintendo already optioned another Bayo game as part of their Bayo 2 deal.
Don't forget Mr. T!
DICKS AHOY
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where's candy kong
John Kowalski
Banned
It's good that though temptingly faulty in execution Nintendo has gone through the trouble of actually engaging in this topic.
Karsticles
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They should add this new Nintendo character, Bayonetta, to Smash Bros.
Sylverstone14
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Caught a HuffPost article about it, and the writer seemed to hate it a lot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexis-kleinman/nintendo-doesnt-understand-women_b_6893130.html
Basically, it's "what's wrong about video games".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexis-kleinman/nintendo-doesnt-understand-women_b_6893130.html
Basically, it's "what's wrong about video games".
