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I'm days in with this story. Yeah, Tecmo don't wanna deal with the current PC climate. It's important to note that while this could be chalked up as cowardice, a great deal of feminist and general PC/moralist critique of women in games almost uniformly cite DOA's fighting and beach games and I suppose they would get wind of that. This is their reaction, "Fuck that noise."
The best part really is the SJW reaction, it's literally what conservatives are doing right now about the recent abortion clinic shooting: *Vilifies person/company/group for years* *some logical result happens* "...What? Us? We have nothing to do with that. We don't have a problem with what happened, and in fact we kinda sort of support it, but don't blame us!" It's cowardly in its own right to not own up to the environment you created.
(For Rog: No I didn't equate a shooting with a game not being localized, I am equating the principle of the reaction)
I actually don't have a great deal of sympathy for 'they made me do it' excuses, so you may be surprised that I'm giving Tecmo the majority flak for this. They could simply port the game and not give a fuck. Hell they almost certainly sold more through imports as morale support, and maybe that can tell them that people don't really take the ideological smears seriously. It would also be a black eye to the fucks who think certain games shouldn't exist, which is always fun.
But yeah, Tecmo being a spooked is a bad look.
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