“I love Zelda’s design in Hyrule Warriors. Her dress doesn’t sexualize her, it looks exactly what a princess would wear to defend her kingdom.”
she’s wearing a SKIRT in combat. has BOOBPLATES which can kill her if struck there and also sexualizes her just not to the same extent of Shia.
also her thighs are exposed bc mm gotta show off her legs. It not practical.. it’s better than Shias but it’s still shittty
something a princess would actually wear to defend her kingdom? Actual armour.
[A propos that Princess Zelda Hyrule Warriors design…] YUP, agreed. Definitely not gonna buy the “look at Zelda finally being properly heroic!” wishful thinking BS.
The fact that her outfit looks better than Shia/Cia’s is no indicator of overall goodness. It’s literally the easiest thing to come up with a design marginally more believable than that physics-defying, bingo-scoringatrocity.
Isn’t it interesting how often the response to criticisms such as the armor bingo card boil down to “but I have to keep using these tired offensive cliches because creativity”? Are they even listening to themselves? Why not take it as a challenge? “How can I create beautiful and original character designs without falling back on tropes that thousands and thousands of artists have used before me?” Now that would be creative.
Defending your “right” to use offensive tropes in character design (or writing, or whatever your creative endeavor of choice) isn’t “artistic integrity”. It’s laziness.
Yup. This^ Pretty much. Emphasis mine.
Whenever someone uses those arguments I’m all like:
I love how the female version has no face plate, just in case there was any confusion about the gender beneath the armor – we have to see those full lips.
