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
I'm pretty sure they started making Metroid games again like 7 years ago and there's a new one coming out just next year.
I said nigh. But in the past 14 years we have gotten 1 new game and 1 remake. And the game before that was Other M.
You also said ceaselessly. And there was a fantastic remaster last year and there's a new game coming out just next year. Like come on. For a series that before Dread never sold more than three million copies a game Nintendo is treating it nowadays like an A-list franchise. At this point it's complaining for complainings sake.
Yes, they finally remembered that Metroid exists, and I appreciate it, but almost a decade and a half of completely forgetting about a female protagonist as pressure for exactly that continued to mount. Like, not even in promotional material for the most part. Call me bitter but Metroid games have consistently been one of the best experiences on each console they have been on, and the series was forgotten for years because It wasn't as liked in Japan as it was in America.
What else is the internet for?