you can only be a white person in the game (tans don't make you a different race by the way).
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animal crossing is racist
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Captain Crazy Chicken
The bad guys are pirates?
They fixed that in Happy Home Designer! Hence why I made a black player character.
oh yay
I was super excited when they added skin tones in HHD. I have a few POC friends who play Animal Crossing, and I can only imagine how nice it feels to have that option now. I wonder if your skintone can still get darker in the summer though. that would be pretty interesting, or if your Mayor can freckle, haha. Maybe that'll be in the next game.
I'm not going to get into the politics of it, but I understand Japan to be a fairly racially homogenous country, with a preference for pale skin as well. So it's not that surprising that they hadn't paid much mind to other skin tones.
I'm not going to get into the politics of it, but I understand Japan to be a fairly racially homogenous country, with a preference for pale skin as well. So it's not that surprising that they hadn't paid much mind to other skin tones.
KaydeeKrunk
The Late Great Turt
Well I mean, if you go to Japan you aren't going to find a lot of dark skinned people. The charecters are Japanese so that's why they did that in all of the AC games. I do like that they changed it in HHD and I am thinking it's a trend that is going to stick where you will be able to decide how your character looks, at least to an extent.
Even though the games are originally from Japan, I think that after the first game, they would have been aware that they have a pretty big fanbase overseas too. I think maybe part of it is that they base your looks off your conversations on the buses rather than having a character creator screen, and it would be very awkward for Rover to ask your race/skin tone for a number of reasons, but that still doesn't excuse excluding players who have darker skin tones from feeling represented, in my opinion.
I think it's important to include diversity in children's media so that they grow up being exposed to all kinds of people, or in the case of children with darker skin, can see themselves represented!! While there isn't anything that directly says anything anti-dark skinned people in the game, I think it can be harmful to grow up without representation of all sorts of people, and so it's a good idea for children's media to include many different kinds of people. The kind of messages we are exposed to at a very young age can be ones that stick with us for the rest of our lives, so I think it is important to pick apart children's media at times.
(BTW, not trying to start an argument of course, just stating why I think this is important!!)
Ah, alrighty then. I tend to overlook that sort of stuff myself, but now that you mention it, I can now see why people want to see more diversity in children's media, especially in this day and age. I do think that it is time to move on forward and stop treating others like dirt just because for what they are. Thank you for the clarification! c:
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Although your mayor is supposed to be a representation of you, while Link is an established character that you control but is not literally supposed to be you, if I'm not mistaken?
no it's not because zelda isnt a simulation and Link can't be customized, he's the same guy who just gets reborn all the time. When you're given the option to create your own character (and many, not all but many, people want to make it a representation of themselves) you should have skin tone choices that don't involve having to stand on an island for 20 minutes every day just to have dark skin.
Although I heard the issue was solved in HHD so this whole discussion is kind of old.
visibleghost
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yeah i agree. i hope they will change that in future games (like they have in hhd)
uh no.
uh no.
That'd be pretty funny. He'd have to have confirm dialog for it too. "Are you sure you're 25% brown?"
Thats a bit of a broad statement, but I see where you're coming from. But keep in mind that the game was originally released in japan and intended for Japanese release only, and usually in video games with customisation people want to be able to play as somebody who looks just like them. For the most part, I imagine that in japan the skin tone of most would be white. (correct me if i'm wrong) and since it's a life simulator, they'd obviously want it to be as close to real life as possible starting with the character. It doesn't necessarily make nintendo racist, because they saw this was a problem for many and simply fixed it in games like animal crossing happy home designer and pokemon.
If they were racist they'd ignore what the audience wants/is telling them and just keep things how they are. Nintendo want to appeal to all, so I doubt they'd single out racial minorities because that's not really what they're actually aiming for as a company and if they were I doubt they'd make as many sales as they do today as that's just bad for business. Its got nothing to do with being racist in my opinion, it was just trying to stay true to the Japanese port and now obviously with the game becoming popular in the west - they've noticed they need to change more to their western audiences needs and wants as well.
If they were racist they'd ignore what the audience wants/is telling them and just keep things how they are. Nintendo want to appeal to all, so I doubt they'd single out racial minorities because that's not really what they're actually aiming for as a company and if they were I doubt they'd make as many sales as they do today as that's just bad for business. Its got nothing to do with being racist in my opinion, it was just trying to stay true to the Japanese port and now obviously with the game becoming popular in the west - they've noticed they need to change more to their western audiences needs and wants as well.
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smolfriskeh
smol british frisk
I know a guy who made an action replay code that turns your character black.
Like black like this word.
Just saying pls dun hurt meh
Like black like this word.
Just saying pls dun hurt meh
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