While it is nice to be able to play as the FR/LG female protagonist, I was annoyed that she was not an option back in Brawl. I think Anita's overall point was that these female options (female trainer and female Pikachu) have been around long enough to have been in Smash previously.
Er, forgot about him tbh, but if we are talking main game and not extra content which he is. He's kind of a weird romance if I remember correctly in general, I don't think you can have sex with him. One path you have to wait to get married til after he get's Starkhaven which doesn't happen in game, and the other path you get to have a chaste marriage where you join the chantry or something. I'm still not sure I count it in the same vein of romance as the other ones.
Not sure i agree with this sentiment regarding Dragon's Crown. Most if not all the characters were hyper sexulized, it was the style that the artist choose to go with. Personally, i actually love all of them, the characters were all beautifully done. Though, I do understand that it makes some people uncomfortable.
One of the great banes of the Internet is that text struggles to convey tone. It's why novels don't read like scripts. And Twitter, with its character limits, makes the problem that much worse, especially when it empowers people to say things they wouldn't in real life.
I think I like the new Zelda look in Smash Ultimate. She looks happy and a bit more expressive. Her previous look was a little too cold for my personal tastes. What do you all think of her? I also like the vambraces more than the long gloves I think. Colour stands out a bit more too.
https://www.smashbros.com/en_GB/fighter/17.html
I'll give you that much that the artist's style is clearly partial to that and the art is very well done. It just doesn't seem to fit in the context of the game. This is one of those subjects that, really, I'm indifferent about. On one hand I don't care that Mai's idle fighting stance is basically her bouncing her assets everywhere and on the other that Senran Kagura is just an outrageously ridiculous series.
When I saw the trailer, I was surprised to see no "waifu bait" but then near the end I thought, "Nah there's definitely going to be a character aimed for that audience. I just know it." Still, not a bad look so far.
Can't compare off hand, but they really upped her muscle tone it seems.
That's a good thing in my book!
I've sure been seeing this shot get passed around. It's so cuuuute! But yeah, I thought TP Zelda fit great in Brawl which was trying to go for a dark and gritty look. I really wasn't the biggest TP fan either. When Smash 4 came out, the dull colors of her look really stood out in a bad way IMO. Didn't really feel like how Zelda should look. I think allenpergallon summed it up perfectly. TP Zelda is fine on her own in trying to be a little different, but not really the best Zelda to really represent the series as a whole..
Speaking of all the Smash stuff though, I wanted to ask: What do you think of a lot of the added gender options announced by Sakurai? You know, like Female Pokemon Trainer, female pikachu, etc. I wanted to ask because I came across this tweet by Anita Sarkeesian.
And I've agreed with a lot of her stuff from Tropes vs Women and the like, but this just seems a bit condescending and obnoxious. I just wonder if it really came off that heavy handed for other people (namely women) too.
Oh yea forgot about DA:I. My roommate at the time actually cried watching me go through Dorian's plotline because he could relate so much.
Heck, I'm a straight women and Dorian's scene with his father made me go all teary. That actor nailed it. Love Dorian as a character, and really hope he returns in DA4 - luckily there's a big chance as it's pretty much guaranteed we'll be going to Tevinter.
She's definitely closer to where she should be in terms of build, but she's still way shorter than she should be.
High heels are still there,but she looks very athletic now.
She's definitely closer to where she should be in terms of build, but she's still way shorter than she should be.
I still remember this illustration of her being something of a giant:
Note that she has a classically heroic head:body ratio, as opposed to the more normal/cutesy ratio she has in Smash Bros.
I genuinely do not have a good frame of reference for character heights in Smash because of how funky their proportions are going from character to character. I'm just going off of head size most of the time, and judging by head size Samus looks rather short (compared to how I imagine her). It would be pretty trivial to shrink her head a bit to make her look proportionately taller, though I don't know how well that would jive with the other characters in the roster. Just something to think about, really.
^-this right here. It's not a "every heroic lady should look like this" thing and more a "Samus has always been huge (before they changed her)" sort of thing.
I don't know, I've never read any of the Nintendo princesses as being particularly tall just going off of the artwork (though obviously they're pretty much universally taller than their male counterparts). That's just, yeah, going by head size ratio in the artwork.
Depends on where you live. 5'11" in Western society is towards the tail end of "above average". In, say, an East Asian country like Japan you'd be much more in that "obnoxiously tall" category where you'd run into a lot more inconveniences because even the guys are generally 4.5" shorter than you are (you'd be in the 0.1% of height there - for reference, an equivalent height in the US for women would be 6'2"). That's on top of the culture itself heavily putting emphasis on women having to be feminine and cute and all that junk. Western society simply does not have as many hang-ups in that area (in part thanks to feminism).
But yeah, Smash doesn't really go for accuracy because of all the clashing art styles: Ultimate has Young Link almost as tall as standard Link! Pretty sure some of the Pokemon would be tiny if everyone was to scale, too?
Not gonna lie, that's pretty cute.I actually really like this ship tbh lol.
With all the negativity about guys being short, I like to see couples like this (especially since one of my exes was a shorter guy)
The main problem is that Anita sounds like she doesn't know what she's talking about. Nintendo's avatar characters have a history of letting players play as male or females, and since Smash 4 had a ton of avatar characters, they implemented model/costume swaps to let players choose their appropriate avatar. They're obviously continuing this in Smash 5, and so Pokemon Trainer is obviously getting a female variant. It would have been surprising for it not to.
I think that it's pretty easy to feel condescended to when the indicator for your sex is a heart-shaped tail or the language constantly associated with female characters continues to be wording like dainty. Let's be straight about this - Sakurai's manner of presenting female characters remains one of stereotyping and fitting women into predefined boxes, and the SSBU presentation just makes that all the more clear.
I agree with the symbology part, but that had nothing to do with the Smash Bros reveal or Anita's comments.
TBF, Sakurai has nothing to do with female Pikachu's tail. That's 100% GameFreak, who are infamous for half-assing their gender options.
Never fails to amaze me just how bad the writing in these things is.I'd downloaded the demo of Shining Resonance: Refrain to try on my lunch break- it's only about fifteen minutes long, and ten of those are cut scenes of characters with lengthy fantastical titles introducing themselves. I think this is probably the most anime game I've ever played out of over a hundred JRPGs.
This is the first character I meet, Sonia, a 'knight'. With a lacy boobplate cupping her breasts and leaving her vitals exposed, with an armoured boobstrap on top of them that has it's own boobwindow in it. Obviously stockings, figure-hugging corset 'armour', weird belt deployment, plate armour that must be wafer-thin on her deformed ankles and a a loose idea of anatomy go hand-in-hand. Her buckler is bizarrely attached to the underarm as it's more important that it somehow works as a violin (?!), and a scabbard is unnecessary as everyone's weapons teleport into existence. Which is really bloody handy for the young man who just escaped from prison and had his inner voice telling him to draw his sword.
Even Shining Force 1 didn't have such cringy writing in 1992...
I remember you talking about Shining Force elsewhere, when I asked which one to try, I take it you didn't mean this one :D
Jesus fucking Satan no :D the only Shining Force games one should try are 1, 2, and 3, maybe CD/Gaiden (Gamegear). The old old ones. Anything after the Sega Saturn is a disaster.
Wait. Hearts on girls are sexist? Really?
I remember Shining Soul being inoffensive if forgettable, but it was the last one before they hired a porn artist to design their characters seven times.
Pink bows or hearts etc. are annoying "girl" stereotypes for a variety of reason. That FemFreq episode explains it well:
I don't think there's much cohesive writing in evident at all so far, just a series of navel-gazing anime cliches in conflict with each other. Pretty much every line could have come from dozens of other rpgs, there's nothing particularly unique or intriguing about any of the characters in their introduction, which, you'd think, is the crucial time for key dialogue that sums them up. This is the exact same problem that Laxia in Ys VIII had, an intro based in cliche rather than character. Shining Resonance generic dragon hero guy is lacking confidence, knight girl is brimming with it, archer girl is a zen ice queen, enemy princess lady is smug and laughs at your victory because, naturally, in a shocked (not shocked) plot twist, you haven't really won. Of course the enemy was only using a fraction of it's full power, I haven't seen that since, er, last week. It's just going through the motions of the most well-trod paths of the genre. Think I'll skip it and try the Octopath demo instead.
