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Re: Noob Saibot.

Posted by Joe (@joe) on Nov. 29, 2024, 10:27 a.m.

I did hear it as “Jessica,” but I guess other people hear it as “testicle”?

Do you really not know people with different hair color than their parents? I never thought they looked black.

Abigail aside, Final Fight is already transphobic:

Poison and Roxy were designed as fast, athletic characters for players to encounter. Due to concerns during Final Fight’s development about reactions from North American audiences to fighting women, both Poison and Roxy were labeled as “newhalfs”, a Japanese slang term for trans women. However, Nintendo of America did not consider this satisfactory and both Poison and Roxy were replaced by the male characters “Billy” and “Sid” and have been for every subsequent North American port of the title on Nintendo consoles and handhelds. This, coupled with several conflicting statements over the years, has led to her gender being questioned, though some statements imply that Poison is transgender, while Roxy is cisgender. Most recently, Capcom has taken the stance that Poison’s gender is open to viewer interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_(Final_Fight)

Re the reputation of the third game, FWIW, looking online it seems to be the overwhelming favorite, although alot of people think that it’s too easy. It probably got middling reviews because the genre was old-fashioned, but people who still wanted to play those types of games seemed to have liked it.