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Pyra and Mythra (from Xenoblade 2) announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Releases in March!
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Same, I guess Sakurai wanted to honor Etika's memory. Rest in peace, man.
I feel like the most iconic new Nintendo characters missing now are Pearl and Marina. With Pyra and Mythra being a new take on the Zelda/Sheik stance change, Pearl and Marina could be a new take on the Ice Climbers duo concept, perhaps with the twist of changing which character is at the front, which would alter how their teamup tactics play out.
Yeah this is horrible.
I thought at the very least they'd make one of the avatar characters (squid kid or villager) could have easily been an easy default form... but it really doesn't help that Nintendo's lacking representation in this area in general.
I have no doubt Nintendo will...but it just won't feel fast enough.
Meh...not like XCX has one. I dunno if the franchise needed more than Shulk. But then again, Fire Emblem has 500 representatives so I guess maybe it's only fair XC had another one....
We really out here using "white knights" and shit unironically?
We really pretending Xenoblade 2 isn't sexualized to hell and back?
I played 300 hours of Xenoblade 2 and 50 hours of the Golden Country. I rate this announcement but lets not do this shit.
And yes people can shut the fuck up about characters boob sizes if the only comments they have are "big tiddy anime girls"
They definitely don't have anywhere near enough, but Little Mac is both black and human.
EDIT: Realised "Little Mac is black" is far from a universally-accepted thing, so I guess that's not necessarily true.
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Gotta say, this reads like you're using someone's personal offense as a springboard for your own petty crusade as a man against people who hate sexist outfit design. Not cool.
Instead of us all hoping minor characters get in Nintendo could actually make a game with major black characters and then pick one for smash. What they are doing now is garbage and we shouldn't have to dumpster dive to find anything black in 35 years of a company's history. It's wack as fuck and they should fix it like yesterday.
This post from the Smash discussion thread fucking nails it.
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I think Octoling would be the next Splatoon rep, with dark skin by default. Inkling only really reps Splatoon 1 weapons and you could make a completely new character using Splatoon 2 weapons.
User Banned (1 month): Misogynistic concern trolling
This 100%. Some hateful shit
Sounds like you haven't had to deal with real misogynists before. People are well within their right to criticize the character designs themselves. The body shaming/boob comments can fuck right off though.
This is so ridiculous. People who have a problem with the designs aren't the "actual misogynists" or however you are trying to spin this.
Every fighting game character announcement I'm like- "Cool, a new Hungry art coming in!"
Yea was gonna say something like this. Them using someone that was actually bodyshamed irl, to try to attack other people is not good.
Last I check, you don't speak up for POC either. And unless you have a survey, who are 'most people', people posting on the internet?
As for Min Min, people talked about her being Chinese because people called her 'white' when she was announced because the vast interest doesn't know crap about ARMS. It was never to 'shut up' Blacks, it was there are more minorities than darker shin people. Which is again, part of the shallowness on the Internet.
I really want to see the venn diagram of resetera people who simultaneously throw the "real women have large breasts" argument and the restera people who use the "small framed girls exist and aren't loli" argument.
I've seen both here and every time it exists entirely to discount the very real frustration by the women in this forum that they are told to shut up and be okay with shit character design.
Maybe this conversation isn't really... constructive as to whether they were good inclusions into smash, since they clearly exist and were made for another game.
But, the fact that we're all constantly told "oh this popular switch game is incredible and if being represented as a sex object is a deal breaker that's YOUR fault for not having a more wholesome idea of real world body types and not enjoying all the positive aspects". its REALLY troubling.
That and the Japanese names for Poppi being puns that represent the different school ages she is designed after while also being jokingly a sex object for her "master"
I've seen both here and every time it exists entirely to discount the very real frustration by the women in this forum that they are told to shut up and be okay with shit character design.
Maybe this conversation isn't really... constructive as to whether they were good inclusions into smash, since they clearly exist and were made for another game.
But, the fact that we're all constantly told "oh this popular switch game is incredible and if being represented as a sex object is a deal breaker that's YOUR fault for not having a more wholesome idea of real world body types and not enjoying all the positive aspects". its REALLY troubling.
That and the Japanese names for Poppi being puns that represent the different school ages she is designed after while also being jokingly a sex object for her "master"
The classic take an optional three minute comedy scene out of context and use it as a misrepresentation of a 100 hour game!
Most named people in this post aren't POC, unless we say anyone with dark skin is Black even if one is an cat alien and the other is really a squid. And most Three House fans, at least the one on the Internet, wanted Edgard. I was one of the few people here that wanted Clad.
I believe she may be a good character, but people can comment on her design in spite of that.
Please, don't pretend cheesecakey fanservice isn't peppered throughout.
Lol wow, in that hot springs one there is literally a slowmo zoom in on her and then "nice bod". Seems pretty straight forward to me what is coming across there imo.
I agree. People need to grow up & stop it with the BS.
My understanding is that their BLM movement fizzled, but I may be misinformed.
But black people are still WILD rare out there, which is my whole point. They're not going to put us in a game at random because it's not their daily life. It's also not representative of the population in a way that it would be in an American-made game.
2% of the population is "non-Japanese," and black people are a small portion of that.
At first I saw xb2 and was sad it's not elma.
Then I was terrified it was rex.
Now I'm just relieved it's not, and the character switching does look cooler than any kit I could've thought up for elma, so I'm ambivalent/mildly positive I suppose.
Then I was terrified it was rex.
Now I'm just relieved it's not, and the character switching does look cooler than any kit I could've thought up for elma, so I'm ambivalent/mildly positive I suppose.
I finished xb2 and still have no idea what the deal with them is or why exactly they share a body 🤔
You mean Rex.
Wrex would've been a better pick than either of them, we don't deserve him.
I've been eyeing those figures for months, haha. Don't know if they're worth it, though.
You're confusing people who don't like XC2 with people who have legitimate criticisms despite possibly liking XC2.
Criticism != Hate for an entire game.
