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the_dengle on 04 May 2014
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BraveNewWorld said:
the_dengle said:
BraveNewWorld said:
If they downsize her bosom and get rid of the stupid high heels then I'm okay with looking at her for an entire game. Her design shows just how out of touch the Japanese are with the west.

I, too, would prefer a male Samus with biceps as thick as his head and tattoos covering half his body, but unfortunately Nintendo is too out of touch with the Western market to design such an obviously superior character.


She needs a Lara Croft-like redesign. As she is now she could be placed into Bayonetta and not look out of place.

Lara Croft has just as much illogical sexualization behind her design as Samus has, her game just has a more realistic art style. Samus is basically an anime character.

The only issue I have with your point stems from your comment about the Japanese being out of touch. It sounds an awful lot like you're saying that the problems with Samus's design are due to her designers being Japanese, and not due to her individual designers (primarily Sakamoto, I suspect) being idiots. It's not as though every female character that comes out of Japan has high heels and huge jugs.