This.

Honestly I don't understand the mass widespread criticism from the users here.

Maybe you can just teach your kids not to be too obsessive about their sex/race/(other innate traits) and to value themselves based on their character and accomplishments?
Maybe his daughter would never have actually cared about playing as a boy, except for the fact that she has an obsessive father who points it out to her.

I made a hack that lets me play metroid as gender neutral. I simply disabled the final reveal at the end of the game.

And do you think this hack has made the game far more accessible to males?

I pressume 'xe' will never tell 'xyr' 'kid' that 'xe' is a girl either..

Ridiculous.

He just wanted his daughter to get closer to the protagonist she's playing with. Nothing wrong.

Handily enough you never see the reveal if you play the game shit slowly and miss all the items.... so... eerrrr... there is a lot of gamers will never find out the gender, tbh there are a load who would never finish a metroid game, they're generally not too easy.

THIS.

I'd hate to sound like that older guy and I'm sounding more like that guy everyday but I can't help it. What I'm about to say is from a male perspective but the point still stands.

When gamers my age were kids, we weren't bothered by gender. Yes, videogames back then were marketed mostly to young boys but there were still games with female protagonists in games. We didn't care that Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 was female. We liked playing as her because of he gliding ability. We didn't care that Samus was a woman. That didn't stop kids from replaying Metroid when they found out. We didn't care as long as it wasn't sometihng terrible like those licensed Barbie games. Even as teenagers, playing as Claire Redfield in Resident Evil 2 didn't bother us.

Now about the Zelda series. It is true that there is supposed to be a connection between the player and the character Link, hense his name. You get to name him and what he does is what you do. It is also why Nintendo never gave him much of a personality outside of a few traits (being couragous, being lazy at the beginning of games) because his personality was supposed to be the player's personaility. HOWEVER, it is established in the Zelda canon that Link is male. That has always been there, long before any official timeline existed.

People today are overly concerned about gender identity and they're passing this behavior on to kids and it is not a healthy thing. Kids need to understand that not everything can be the way they want it to be. Some games have you playing as males and some as females. However, some parents want to try and create a world where anything can be exactly as the kid desires. This is the world that the kids grows up in and then they expect society to cater specifically to their needs. It is so self-centered and so selfish. It is also out of line with reality. People in general need to grow up and stop taking everything so seriously.

Link has absolutely no personality though. If the fact that he has a theoretical penis and is adressed differently is enough for his daughter to have difficulties "getting closer" to the character, it sounds to me like he is adjusting the game to make his sexist daughter feel more comfortable.

I have no problem getting close to female characters, nor do I have a problem getting close to fat or black characters. If people enjoy a game less because they have a hard time identifying with such characters, I'd say that's an excellent reason for them to play with them to help deal with this issue.

Feminists should be on my side on this issue, but I fear that most of them would rather praise this father blindly without a second thought.

If I was going to mod a game, I would be adding a lot more fancier features than just something like that :p