@matrix i got 77.5% correct. 38/49. a couple of them that i selected as being AI instead of human i was originally thinking were human, but then i noticed an inconsistency that i'd figure AI would cause.
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@xianc78 well you had a random level art designer for the original metroid saying that Samus was trans (newhalf in Japan) so I'm pretty sure they knew. Vivian isn't ever referred to as such, just referred to as a young boy in his bio, but gets annoyed when people call him a boy. My guess is that there is a level of nuance that is missed when viewed through a modern lens, especially as English speakers.
I just get the feeling, much with the Silent Hill 2 remake, that it's a bunch of people disconnected from the original creation trying to pick apart knowledge of what the original intent was to mold it around what they want to do with the game. Like some Japanese writer has a fixation on trannies and wanted to shove it in there more prominently this time around, and then of course US localizers will be all over that shit too.
I'm not really too fond of putting trans characters or other complex ideas like that in games meant for children, either. Especially when we have parents who don't really give a shit what their kids are doing so they just end up asking about it in a random discord server or Roblox and get groomed and troon out. Then again, I guess when they remake games from 20 years ago the target demographic for said game has shifted dramatically.
It's also just fatigue of this shit being pushed all the time and in the most annoying and degrading (or sometimes just flat out evil) ways possible. I bet if the remake came out two years from now that would have been scrapped due to how the social climate is shifting. Or maybe not... I'm willing to bet that the ttyd superfans either fully support that shit or at the very least are fine with it. And they'll screech about not censoring their beloved trans character in a kids' game but if a female character shows a bit too much skin in a rated M game it's "for the male gaze" and it's a massive controversy worth putting out felony death threats for.
So at the end of the day that's why I don't really give a shit. It's probably fetishized culture war bullshit from a game I really don't care about with an online community that's retarded and chased away the only cool guy. I'll have my opinion that it's modern agenda pushing regardless.