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Re: Nintendo's Smart Device Strategy Is About Getting People To Interact With Its IP More Frequently, Says Tatsumi Kimishima

MarinoKadame

I don't plan to buy a mobile phone in the next 5 years+, I just don't have a use for that since I barely go out, and there's always the 3DS to play outside who has better games than just cash grab mobile games that plague 99% of mobile market, they spend more making an unrealistic commercial of a mobile game than they spend on the game itself when it show only 2 seconds of gameplay in a 50 seconds commercial.

Re: Feature: Reflecting On Three Years With The Wii U - Part One

MarinoKadame

Even if the Wii U was pricy with the gamepad it was still cheaper than the PS4 and XBOne on release. I got an XBOne lately from a promo 4k TV but I'm not opening it because the exclusive of Xbox don't interest me at all, Halo and Forza are not for me, they got only some adventure games exclusive to it.

Otherwise it's multi-platform or timed exclusive and the rest can be played on PC.

The PS4 has better exclusives mostly in JRPG domain, even if there's no backward compatibility it still has better games than what the Xbox will offer for me. What I don't like is the extra payment per month to use online feature and the PS+ to keep your save file in case the game get corrupted.

Re: Editorial: Linkle May be a Clunky Introduction For a 'Female Link', But Opens Up Interesting Possibilities

MarinoKadame

The story of skyward sword never said Link need to always be a boy, that's why it's the spirit of the hero, meanwhile Zelda is tied by blood meaning she will reincarnate each generation.

The spirit of the hero will go to the person who is the most fitting candidate when Ganon will come back, be it male or female.

Link is a totally different character compared to Mario, Samus, Pit and Donkey Kong, only in a select few game you get the same Link from a previous game, while the rest are just linked by name and the spirit of the hero.

Also Demise reincarnate into Ganondorf in some of the games, while before he was only known as Ganon which is the appearance the Triforce give him.

Re: Editorial: Linkle May be a Clunky Introduction For a 'Female Link', But Opens Up Interesting Possibilities

MarinoKadame

Zelda being female is mostly because she share the same blood with the goddess who took an human appearance, this way Hylia can reincarnate each time. This also explain why Zelda mother is always never mentioned because she probably died while giving birth. And it became a tradition for the royal family to name their female newborn Zelda in honor to the human form of Hylia back in Skyward Sword.

Remember how in Skyward Sword there was no royal family set in stone yet.

Meanwhile Link only share a spirit meaning each incarnation has a possibility to be female.

Re: Editorial: Linkle May be a Clunky Introduction For a 'Female Link', But Opens Up Interesting Possibilities

MarinoKadame

I don't see how the lore would need to be rewritten if we end up with a female Link that will happen after all the previous lore already established, since when the lore say that the spirit of the hero need to be male ? I saw nothing written about it, it's just people assuming since the spirit picked a male protagonist every time that it will always be a male.

Link is never the same character except for when they make a series of sequel in the same timeline aka Majora's Mask and Wind Waker series, otherwise it's always a different incarnation of the spirit of the hero.

Just look how Link dies in OoT and then suddenly a new Link come back to fight Ganon later in the Link to the past and original Zelda games timeline.

Link can be female any time Nintendo want, also the way the games are made there's barely any voice acting required for each characters since it's pretty much moans and other little sound effects.

The only change would be some dialogues depending on the gender. A female Link is still possible.

Re: You Can't Alter The Chest Size Of Female Characters In The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X

MarinoKadame

@Ralizah it's mostly because in western eyes anything that is anime like and has any kind of fan service is taken as Hentai, while Witcher 3 and God of War being more on the realistic graphic side get a pass because it's not hinted at being Japanese at all.

This also explain the whole weaboo mentality for anything about people that like stuff coming from Japan.

The biggest party faulty in this case here is not Nintendo it self but the little localization branch named Treehouse where everything they touches is getting some form of censorship.

Bayonetta 2 didn't got censored mostly because it was localized by a more lenient team and the game was already translated fully in English on the Japanese release too, I think it's mostly Platinum that did the translation and not Nintendo.