I’m normally okay with acquisitions, but for this one I would say NO THANKS. I wouldn’t want to see Mario go woke. Or whatever else Disney would do.
Mario has been woke... Peach, Disney, and Toadette are athletic AF, and Peach has been shown to be strong in her own right (she has her own game on the Switch where she can be anything and everything, plus she's thrown Bowser out of her castle before). Birdo is a trans character. Daisy is a masculine tomboy.
This is one of the most deranged takes yet... I would think this is satire but this is 2024 so I'm not sure. Nintendo is one of the most anti woke companies around that largely hold the same values they had since the 80's. Thats a far cry from Disney that tried to shove LGBTQ shit in every IP they had.. all though according to this interview that is now changing due to the massive loss of $$ over the years
This is not true at all. Y'all are in denial because the anti-woke push "Japan good, West bad". Nintendo was the one who made Metroid, where a woman is mostly in a suit of armor and assumed to be a man (until the very end).
Birdo is a trans character. Daisy is a tomboy, which is a contrast to Peach being girly. That's why some Mario fans, not anti-woke, were annoyed with Peach's personality in the movie; they felt that Daisy should've been in the movie and had that personality. Peach and Daisy are both athletes, because they're in the sports games. They both play Tennis, golf, basketball, baseball, soccer, and other sports to the level of the men and non humans. Peach and Daisy competing and being able to win against Mario and Luigi is simply okay because it's a game made by a Japanese company. If Naughty Dog made a sports game where women could win against men, y'all would call it woke.
Zelda has Gerudo women, who are women of color that prevent men from entering their city. The entire game is about female goddesses giving Link his power.
Fire Emblem has a guy that turns into a girl, and her sister says "big brother has turned into big sister! Even better!"
I'd hate to tell you but I'm not a part of any mob. I've been gaming since 1988. I came to my conclusions by just paying attention. A women existing in an action role in itself isn't anything new.
Birdo is an imaginary creature. You see unlike western devs the Japanese can actually implement these things with subtlety. You acting like Peach being able to beat Mario in a game of tennis just because she's a playable character is peak delusion... by that standard you think the anti woke mob is going after street fighter because of Chun Li?...
Gerudo women were ruled and dominated by ONE man... Link... a blonde headed white male has to consistently save the world( A western studio would never create that in this day and age..)
What do western studios do? Make all their women look like androgynous freaks and make you sit through gender identity discussions with your mommy at the dinner table in the middle of a fantasy game. If you can't tell the difference between the two then God help you but it doesn't really matter because the rest of the world is fed up with this bullshit.
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