Nintendo Direct!

[A Black Falcon]

Um, Wii Fit isn't exactly a "game" in any sense of the word. That's what makes the trainer so odd. Yes, I would love to see more female characters, but you don't solve that problem by randomly sticking nonsensical side stuff in there. I wouldn't want Toadette in there either, frankly (or Toad). If the Game & Watch character didn't have "Mr" in front of it, and if Nintendo had just agreed not to call Kirby "he", there'd be a little more ambiguity with a few characters that aren't obviously any sort of gender.

The Wii Fit U trainer isn't Toad or Toadette, she's the main thing you see in one of the most successful things Nintendo sold last generation. And that video introducing her was good and I thought it did a fine job of explaining why she was in the game, in a way. :) Is Wii Fit a game? I'm not sure, I haven't played it and don't have the Wii foot pad thing; I know it's partially just a fitness tool, but it has some "game" elements to it too. They wanted to add a new female character, and chose one who wasn't just some sub-character from a game, but is actually the 'lead' of sorts. Why not?

I mean, I would want to see some of those sub-characters too, but I have no problem with them including the Wii Fit girl. So yeah, I don't understand why people are annoyed that she's in the game. Why not? It's no worse than the Ice Climbers, or Mr. Game & Watch, or such.

(Oh, and as for Kirby, they've always called him "he", ever since the first game. It's understandable, it's the lead character of an action platformer game, and most action heroes are male, right? So Kirby is too.)

So let me add one big thing from the new DKC game. Did you see that fur?

Not really, I watched it live and the stream was running so terribly that I couldn't see much a lot of the time. I guess there was fur there. I'll need to rewatch the thing.

As for the Zelda series, here's the deal. Rather than it being a pure sexism thing, simply put, it's an issue of Nintendo not wanting to ever use any character other than Link in the Zelda games.

Because of sexism. There is no other real reason.

I for one am waiting for the day they break THAT tradition and start creating new characters for us to play as. When this day comes, the next step is obvious, to allow us to play as some female character, and then maybe one day, Zelda. That said, I still like my idea of a "side story" in a remake of Ocarina of Time where we play from Zelda's point of view. She played a very active role in that game, and she could have an entire adventure made for her covering all the stuff she had done.

A Skyward Sword game where you play as Zelda could be good too. Just make an alternate version where she doesn't get kidnapped at the end as usual. Or how about a version of Twilight Princess where Zelda decides to actually do something, instead of sitting in a tower through the whole game (until she ... goes away ... to save Midna)?