But the person is already banned so why bother ?
I will just give a small answer and be done with it since most people covered the basics already =P
In the begining of the year 2000, SNK released a game called SNK Gal Fighters for the poorly sold Neo Geo Pocket Color. Like Pocket Fighter 3 years prior, it was a casual focused game with majority of playable women (a rarity for the time for both companies) and featured cute SD characters and a fun and joking image. One could even say that these 2 games were the start of focusing fighting games not only to a casual audience but to an audience that was not male only anymore.
Fastfoward a few years and some talks of a spiritual sequel to Gal Fighters is mentioned on rumors but nothing ...
And than ... something is announced on a Nintendo direct ... "SNK Heroines Face off" said the direct title for the next game
"OMFG THEY ARE REALLY DOING A SEQUEL TO ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES" my heart beats
It starts pretty ok ("warning : it is not SD" the back of my mind warns me) with everyone with acceptable clothing ... even if it is weird that kula is not kula. Than on gameplay, athena is wearing some weird clothes....
And it all went downhill from there.
We ended up getting a game that objectifies the women so much that Mai fucking Shiranui is ASHAMED on her oficial artwork.
Almost every main clothing is a literal fetish. You need to actually unlock the regular outfits.
You know why ? The plot justifies because everyone of those women were actually ruffied and woke up dressed in clothing they hate because the actual lore of the game is that a pervert that will fight with "fetichism explosiom" will do anything to raise the despair of these women to feed the sand machine he has for reasons. Best part ? Since he is the one that is doing all the voyer stuff and choosing how they dress, they basically turned a cool "dress how you like" in a sexual abuse minigame yaaaay. And the "cute fun theme" of the game implies it is all ok because what is more fun than abuse, amrigt?
And everything is ignoring that all the women are thin and basically the only body difference is how big are their breasts and how tall they are.
Horraaaaay for impossible standards of beauty !
And then, if this was not enough, they announce Terry Bogard to the game.
Lets pause a minute and talk about the story of Gal Fighters, the Neo Geo Pocket game.
The story of the game is that someone is doing a Queen of Fighters (get it ? get it ?) tournament and the prize is a talisman who grants wishes. Not only is that story silly by itself, since that game actually honors the SNK part of the name and features characters that were not avaliable in KOF at the moment like even a Last Blade character, but it makes for silly funny endings like Leona wishing for her pain to end ... which ends up taking out a tooth =P
The final boss is a character name Miss X
As you (and pratically every character in the game) can clearly see, Miss X is Iori in drag.
A character that is hidden within the game is Yuki, Kyo's girlfriend that actually makes her first playable appearance here and would later appear a few months later in KOF 97.
In her ending, Yuki makes Iori promisse to be nice to Kyo or she will use the talisman to turn her into a woman. It is all in good fun.
Every instance of Iori in drag is made as a nice fun nod to the character. Nobody has a problem with him being in drag. Nobody jokes on how iori is wearing a skirt. It is all fun and completely normal. One of the credits images is even lots of kof dudes having fun
AND he has a cool design that respects his movement and is not sexualized.
Ok so where was I ? Yes.... Terry Bogard.
When terry bogard was rumores to be in this game I imagined a similar thing would have happened and OH BOY how wrong I was.
Terry Bogard has a generic zero muscle big boobs "hot women body" ... AND his classic clothing is completely ignored for a miniskirt (WITH THE BUTTONS OPEN) and a top. And he freaks out when he discovers. And teammates laugh when they see. And his ending is him having a nightmare that his son is killing him in the same way Geese died. But hey it was just a dream so hilarious.
Seriously that Terry artwork could be used as an oficial image for this thread because comparing to his regular outfit IS why women criticise objectified character designs. And I say objectified because obviously there are zero sex references in this game since they all need to be pure and virgin to the point of MAI blushing to a bikini.
And I am only talking about the ingame stuff. The interviews have people basically complaining about the sjws in the west and thinking they did a non objectified game and how this game will bring the casuals by focusing on the smelly otaku that buys pollok paintings on black light pillows of wifus.
And the game released and it is bad, does not have crouch, guards with a button.
First dlc announced, it is a character from a mobile game
Second DLC is Skullomania as a girl.
Not a girl
transformed by skullomania like the Street Fighter EX art implies, the actual Skullomania transformed to have the same fucking body type except height and bust size. At least the clothing is the same i guess.
And there is a rumor that Miss X is a dlc character in the game. The only doubt I have is what bra size they will give to Iori, because if they missed the point ENTIRELY of why Gal Fighters is Gal Fighters, why not miss the X point on Miss X, right ?
