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Quite a good breakdown by Laura Kate Dale of Nintendo's handling of recent games featuring playable women characters from franchises usually headed up by men i.e. recent Peach game and upcoming Legend of Zelda game featuring the titular Zelda.

Featuring such Aonuma bangers as:

If we have Princess Zelda as the main character who fights, then what is Link going to do?

The triforce is made up of Princess Zelda, Ganon and Link. Princess Zelda is obviously female; if we made Link a female, we thought that would mess with the balance of the triforce - that's why we decided not to do it.

We feel like what takes priority is this idea of gameplay. If it turns out that particular gameplay we're trying to bring to fruition would be best served by having Zelda take that role, then it's possible that that could be a direction we could take.

i.e. Zelda has featured exclusively MANLY gameplay up to this point btw

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    12 days ago

    Nintendo... weird with women protagonists

    Fire Emblem's had some fucked up shit in it, gameplay included, particularly the touchscreen "morale" system. kombucha-disgust

    (CW: homophobia)

    spoiler

    And I'm not letting go of that "oh no I'm a lesbian but I want to mate with senpai so you have to cure me with a potion! If you're a female character though, not interested" shit either. susie-baffled

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      12 days ago

      Anyone who's ever tried to make me play Fire Emblem is a war criminal angery

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        12 days ago

        I liked Shining Force overall, so I was curious about Fire Emblem but the games I played kept straying into royal essentialism shit and a lot of mandatory breeding as gameplay subtext which is just... ech. It's like the setting wanted to be (contextually) fanservice first and then built up a fiction and game around that.

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          12 days ago

          but the games I played kept straying into royal essentialism shit and a lot of mandatory breeding as gameplay subtext which is just... ech.

          Can't believe how Just Like Me Fr Fr this is powercry-1 I fuckin kinda hate Fire Emblem tbh. Shining Force is way cooler I'm p sure.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            12 days ago

            Shining Force was a wonderful series for its time, but I'm unsure how appealing it'd be to you this many years later.

            This is about as modern as the series gets, if that helps.

            https://youtu.be/_900EwYcZ5s?t=7156

            • ashinadash [she/her]
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              12 days ago

              I wanna play the Saturn SFIII trilogy! That was a banger Majuular video.

              I actually started with Sword of Hajya on the Game Gear, which was cute. I think SFII would be fun too honestly.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                12 days ago

                Majuular delivers for sure.

                I wish I had a Game Gear as a kid; I was in awe of it during the Game Boy era (which I also didn't have) kitty-birthday-sad

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          11 days ago

          Suddenly so thankful I only played like ten hours of Fates. Apparently I got all I need, might still dip into Sacred Echoes (based) and Thracia.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        12 days ago

        I know that isn't a deal breaker for some people, but that fanservice pandering is mandatory for optimal gameplay (and in some key moments, to progress at all) and I put it down and never came back.