Your Top 50 Games: 2011 Discussion Thread

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TruckOSaurus said:

RolStoppable said:

Vivian is like Birdo, so actually a male. But this kind of Japanese thing isn't welcome in the rest of the world, so it's simply not being mentioned in any of the official translations of this game.

Hurray for stupid censorship!

Well even in the Japaenese version it's pretty complicated. Goombella tattle says "That's Vivian. Of the shadow group, she's the youngest sister... er, brother." However, Vivian is still defined by female pronouns such as "she" and "her"... and in the ending of the game Goombella comes to the conclusion that Vivian is a female.

So I guess we can conclude that in the Japanese version, Vivian is a transgender... viewing herself as a female. Yep...