Revelations from Keynote III (2019)

[Anonymoose]

So it comes back to the big question of, "Why does it matter now?" If the devs didn't want to do male Viera because they didn't want to, then they should have stated that instead of trying to hide behind a flimsy excuse that falls apart when one thinks about it for more than a minute.

At the risk of phrasing it too bluntly, this may be the closest I've seen anyone come to just saying, "In my opinion it looks hypocritical to to disregard the lore for fifty other kinds of PC-vanity only to suddenly invoke it as defense for denying character creation options that don't seem to with fit Japan's more comfortably traditional gender norms." without making it weird and/or being insulting. <raises glass>


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Also, Yoshida has always been pretty outspokenly anti-bunny-boy, lol. In a 2013 interview with Siliconera, he said that if they did Viera, they would probably make them female only and consider another race for males because, direct quote, rabbit males are "kind of weird." 2013!