Gender locked race?

[Novak_04]

Is this going to be a thing for the Viera? Female only? They didn't show any male Viera and that makes me sad...

[Valan]

I hope no. There was some artwrok of male viera in the first fanfest.

Edit: found it

[Novak_04]

I hope they allow male Viera as well. It's odd that they only highlighted the female models. Have they typically only shown the female versions (or one version in general) in the past for a new race? I don't want to be too quick about my judgments, hence the inquiry.

[Tsumdere]

Extremely disappointed. Very lazy and pandering.

Definitely thought SE was better than this with their track record of opening up past races to both genders. I guess the male bunny suit annoyance wasn't enough for them, now they'll just get badgered every Q&A session and fan fest about this instead.

I still hope there will be males... somehow. Else they won't be receiving my fantasia money.

[Skos]

These look like Hyur with bunny ears. Yikes.
Very bland and uninspired if you ask me.

[Novak_04]

I could see the appeal. They have different physiques, after all.

[Beckett]

Sure looks that way, and it fits the lore they've set up.



Really unfortunate choice on SE's part. We're supposed to be past this.

[LaylaTsarra]

They look amazing. The animations looked awesome too. I suspect the race will be gender locked. Don't think that will be a popular thing but I suspect they'll be showing another race real soon.

[Nestama]

These look like Hyur with bunny ears. Yikes.
Very bland and uninspired if you ask me.

Something I've been saying for awhile~

[Theodric]

I'm not a fan of gender locked races. They're usually very tacky and blatantly catered to outright fan-service. Even if the race isn't gender locked it's pretty clear that male Viera will effectively be overlooked. There's only a handful of male Miq'ote represented by NPC's and male Viera are described as even rarer.

I don't have an issue with outright fan service when it's done across the board. Yet so far there's no sign that that'll be the case.

It's particularly odd when one considers that a lot of people asking for Viera did so because they wanted to play male Viera.