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So, there is a thing that was on my mind throughout the past 48 hours.
The Switch Remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was released this week and there is something that kind of caused a bit of controversy:
One of the more predominate characters, named Vivian, is made to be Transgendered (male-to-female to be precise). This caused a bit of outrage that Nintendo is catering to the woke mob and the Globalist DEI agenda.
However, from what I understand, Vivian was ACTUALLY transgendered in the original Japanese version of the game that was first released on the GameCube back in the 2000's. The American localization of the game at the time removed the tranny stuffs and made Vivian a straight girl, and altered all dialogue to reflect that fact. This localization change was very well-known within the Paper Mario fanbase, although I do not recall if it was that controversial back then as it is today. It seems that the Switch remake of the game is preserving what is accurate in the Japanese version of the game back then.
I find myself very conflicted. On one hand, for seemed like forever, I get annoyed and miffed about censorship in general. I get especially annoyed about changes and alterations when translating and localizing foreign media for American markets, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Anime and Japanese Games, and ESPECIALLY if it is to inject Woke BS or to cater to leftists, like what many of these woke leftists are saying they are doing right now. Give me the original vision of the creators of the media and don't alter it for your woke politics.
On the other hand, I am not so sure if I would like to see nor tolerate anymore Woke or LGBT BS in my games, even though if it is the original intent of the makers of the game. I say this since my tolerance for such insanity was very strained and eroded in recent years from living in this clown world. In this case, I would like Vivian to be a straight girl, for it makes the story flow more naturally without LGBT distractions.
This makes me worry for future works and remakes of beloved classics Nintendo has that is still Japanese-only at the moment, like the long-rumored remake of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. That game has some very dark themes in its story, like the part where an evil medieval-fantasy-empire is being controlled by the fantasy-analogue of a Satanist cult and going around kidnapping children en-masse to feed to their version of Satan.
Stuff that GAW would be interested in.