Nintendo Switch 2 Miis are genderless, and fans have theories as to why
Nintendo Switch 2 Miis are genderless, and fans have theories as to why
Nintendo Switch 2 Miis are reportedly genderless, and fans have theorised it could mean big things for an upcoming title.
TLDR: They changed the name from male/female to style1/style2. All of the gender differences still exist, they just changed the name.
Yeah, it really annoys us when games do this. There's really no need for having seperate body types.
Just let bodies be freestyle, pronouns be truly anything we want, voices (if included) not determine anything, and height be anything. Allow us to make truly freeform characters, decoupled from any imposed 'sex' or 'gender'.
That would require rewriting the miis from scratch. When they were first created miis had binary genders, and that assumption was baked in from the start. Changing it now would be expensive so they do this sort of half measure.
A lot of games tried to retrofit gender diversity into already existing character systems and it doesn't work well. For example, cyberpunk's V can have any genitals or body shape you want, but the game was written from the start with an assumed strict gender binary. Your character's gender is whichever voice you pick.
Hopefully in the future these character systems will be built with that sort of flexibility. But its quite common to have strange results from retrofits like the miis.
I noticed a similar thing in monster hunter wilds. instead of male or female armor sets there’s α, β, and γ armor sets
That's different. You get type 1 of alpha and type 2 of alpha.
Alpha and beta are more about stats than appereance, iirc the other one is for when the armour doesn't have two stat variants.
Regardless of the stats or the sign each one has their type and 2 style, and you can wear whichever regardless of gender. It makes for cooler set opportunities.
It’s good to see that Japan is advancing further with Trans rights. Put those Americans to shame!
That's ok unless you still separate clothes in "gender" style.