Hey Nintendo, I have an idea for a game for you – make a new Zelda game but use bits of these comics from 1990 as the concepts. The bits where Zelda is kicking ass, rescuing the innocent and helping people overthrow evil.
– wincenworks
(ht: Kotaku)
“Really? Flashing tits makes this a ‘grown up’ game? This is such skewed thinking and what is a huge flaw within the gamer community. You’re completely over-looking everything that is just wrong with this, especially since this is a battle game and bikini armor does absolutely nothing. That huge patch of skin is gonna do a hell of a lot to deflect Link’s arrows.
All this is is pandering to male gamers and brings absolutely nothing else to the game except spank bank material. It’s lazy character designing, factually flawed, biased and sexist. I wouldn’t be complaining half as much as I am if it wasn’t for the next screenshot that shows a male character in full, heavy duty armor.” – Some dude on reddit
Pretty much sums up my thoughts on the new Hyrule Warriors female villain. Kind of really getting annoyed with this stuff.
Nintendo, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, apparently decided to double down on this.
They decided to make a DLC with an alternative outfit provided you want to pay the bargain price of US$7.99 for…
So, rather than embracing the era of the modding community (who make some very genuinely sexy mods) they’re offering to sell you an outfit that’s only slightly less terrible (presumably if it was a good outfit you wouldn’t know it was a game for grown ups).
But apparently no amount of money will convince Cia to put on something comfy and stop wearing a bra on her head.
– wincenworks
“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-scoring atrocity.
~Ozzie
edit: Fixed the link.