Gender locked race?

[Seraphor]

I'm looking forward to seeing Yoshi announce a genderlock live on stage and try to justify it. Bonus points if he calls it a Limited Race

It wouldn't be difficult to justify at all.
Male Viera would be a pretty momentus thing, they have a kind of mystery that's been hyped up over several titles, they're famous for their absence.
Whatever they design them to look like, they won't be able to please everyone, there's been too much build up, and everyone has their own vision of them. So to preserve lore, and their mistique, and everyone's own personal vision of them, they don't release male Viera but we get Hrothgar instead.

[BillyKaplan]

It wouldn't be difficult to justify at all.
Male Viera would be a pretty momentus this, they have a kind of mystery that's been hyped up over several titles, they're famous for their absence.
Whatever they design them to look like, they won't be able to please everyone, there's been too much build up, and everyone has their own vision of them. So to preserve lore, and their mistique, and everyone's own personal vision of them, they don't release male Viera but we get Hrothgar instead.

V. good.
Now explain why we won't get female Hrothgar without it being either a copy or a half-hearted excuse.

[Seraphor]

V. good.
Now explain why we won't get female Hrothgar without it being either a copy or a half-hearted excuse.

Because Hrothgar will have been made to fill the void, tailored specifically to not have females, and because of limited dev time/resources.

I never said it was ideal, but it's justifiable.

[xbahax92]

Because Hrothgar will have been made to fill the void, tailored specifically to not have females, and because of limited dev time/resources.

I never said it was ideal, but it's justifiable.

In this case, he shouldnt of showed male bun artwork during FATE in tokyo. I believe its the reason he didnt want to show them in first place, it would give people a rough sketch how they would look like - so when people request Viera as new race, they expect male too.

If that was his vision already 4 years ago, I would of asked him why he didnt just skip Viera completely and work on a full new race with M +F version.
And if he tells me because people requested it now for 4 years, then same applies that people been asking for M+F playable Viera race.

[jameseoakes]

Because Hrothgar will have been made to fill the void, tailored specifically to not have females, and because of limited dev time/resources.

I never said it was ideal, but it's justifiable.

I just can't get how Veria would have made it past the concept stage if they can not make males.

[linay]

Whatever they design them to look like, they won't be able to please everyone, there's been too much build up, and everyone has their own vision of them.

You look at the difference between male and female of the other races (au ra being an outlier) and you apply similar concept to a male Viera in context of the known female form. It may not please everyone, but it is the simplest way of making a male Viera. There is no reason to expect the male being all that different from the female even with their different lifestyle.

[xbahax92]

My new theory before fanfest is: happy bunnies are male viera, hence nobody knew about their special form and nobody ever saw male Viera.

[Mansion]

My new theory before fanfest is: happy bunnies are male viera, hence nobody knew about their special form and nobody ever saw male Viera.

And you have to shake their carrots to get a gift? Hot.

[RicaRuin]

My new theory before fanfest is: happy bunnies are male viera, hence nobody knew about their special form and nobody ever saw male Viera.

Someone saw my reddit theory

[RicaRuin]

I never posted my theory here, so, I copypaste my own stuff from reddit. You all remember Moombas from FF VIII, right?

"Calling it now - we were all blind. Happy Bunnies are obviously male Viera. That's why no one has seen them before, no one except such a form. When Viera come of age and are male, they turn into Happy Bunnies. Think of them similar as of the Moombas in FF VIII which were also another evolution state of a completely different race."