The Biggest Controversy from EVERY Nintendo Series
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
- Looking back on the biggest dramas, scandals and controversies from every (most) Nintendo franchises.
Shout-out Kyler.
/ @kyler_360
I forgot to credit the 3 youtubers used in the Mario Sports Sequence, they are:
@NintenTalk
@GameGuy53
@MonadoMax
00:00 Intro
01:00 Mario
04:31 Mario Party
06:34 Mario Sports
07:00 Mario Kart
08:18 Paper Mario
08:59 Wario
09:24 Yoshi
10:00 Donkey Kong
11:53 Pokemon
12:36 Fire Emblem
14:34 Xenoblade
16:46 Pikmin
17:06 Kirby
17:34 Wii Series
19:23 Punch-Out!!
21:10 Zelda
23:20 Animal Crossing
25:30 Metroid
25:57 Advance Wars
26:12 F-Zero
26:33 Bayonetta
29:51 Nintendogs
31:06 Tomadachi
32:09 Splatoon
33:31 Smash Bros
35:32 Star Fox
35:55 Kid Icarus
36:35 Brain Age
36:56 Mother - Ігри
Outro Remix: ua-cam.com/video/ohHJTVS68z4/v-deo.htmlsi=t-QTWHhLa74t6mge
We do not care
@@Jelly_shy_guy_manYou cared enough to reply.
Where is game builder garage I'm going to bad day you
@voyan38 Megaten track at 6:07 ?
For the most part, the new rubber sticks on the Switch controllers don't really have as many issues with my palm as the original defective plastic N64 stick would present if I owned an N64 and a Mario Party 1 cartridge. By the way, fun fact for anyone who's never owned an N64: The N64's analog stick was made up entirely of plastic, which is mostly what resulted in players splitting their palms on the ridges. I think that might be why the GameCube and beyond switched to rubber sticks.
Also, if you call Smash a party game and not a fighting game, you're a fake gamer and you need to be put in a locker.
Not a single mexican will ever complain about Mario wearing a sombrero and sarape. We love seeing that stuff.
As usual, it's stupid Americans who are on Twitter 24/7 that are complaining on everyone else's behalf.
I find it more offensive that Mexican Mario was taken off the box art
The one complaint I heard from hispanic/Latino people was that they were kinda tired of sugar skulls being overused in a lot of media, and even then they were still fine with the skull dudes mostly.
It's also funny cause with how much of an italian stereotype mario is, nobody's ever cared about it (or at least not enough to verbally whine about it). It's weird what twitter users will latch onto and complain about.
White people or other shouldn’t be offended by our behalf it’s the same logic used by the man who threatened the creators of south park bc they were going to depict the prophet of the Muslim faith. So that controversy wasn’t caused by Muslims
Usually, the only people that are offended are people who have no reason to be offended.
Rhythm Heaven isn't on here because its too perfect to have controversy
i got an ad for a rhythm game on switch when i clicked on this video… this can’t just be a coincidence, can it?
@kaphizmey3706 Nah it is coincidence
jp trey design:
Yes
Lol I’m glad rhythm heaven doesn’t have any controversies… I’m still waiting on the next game
I find it so funny how most people that claim “cultural appropriation” aren’t even apart of that culture and hate when a country is represented with cultural norms. It’s not cultural appropriation to express and represent a countries culture, that’s just called representation.
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Especially when they try to get that same stuff removed and then complain about "lack of representation in the media". Honestly, as an African American, I'm not even upset about the Pokémon controversy like Jynx and Bellossom because I understand the limitations of animation from that era and that they were on a budget so they couldn't go as drastic with the colors. Plus, tvs had a limited range of colors. Also, Jynx just looks like what would happen if you took off Mimikyu's cloak, gave it lipstick, a wig, and a nightgown. Mimikyu got into its trainer's makeup bag, leave it alone it's trying its best.
I would disagree in the og Jynx and Bellossom part, only because I prefer magical creatures to not look too human. The other design change was that black woman gym leader (the fossil researcher one) in gen 5, look it up, id say that there they were reaching
All it shows is that anti-Whites can leverage anything and turn it into "racism."
E.g., if White people move into majority POC neighborhoods, it is gentrification and thus racism. If White people live amongst themselves, it is segregation and thus the worst kind of racism.
If White people interact with, or are portrayed as interacting with (in the case of Mario), non-White culture, it is cultural appropriation. If White people do not interact with non-White culture, those cultures do not have proper representation and it is thus racism.
If a White person starts a business in a non-White neighborhood, they are exploiting POC bodies and wealth which is thus racism. If they do not start a business in a non-White neighborhood, they are denying POC access to necessary resources and opportunities, keeping them impoverished as they apparently do not have any agency, and thus it is perpetuating systemic White supremacy and racism.
Basically "racism" as an accusation exists solely to disempower, shame and attack White people for whatever they do, as any kind of interaction with POC can be portrayed as evil (a White person starting a charity that only serves POC is White Saviorism, eg). On top of that, the greatest evil of all is White people not interacting with non-White people, denying POC their God given right of access to White people.
The only thing White people can safely do is not exist, and that's ultimately what these people want.
It's always the white people with no culture who wanna claim it for other people
Fun fact about the Donkey Kong lawsuit: The lawyer that helped Nintendo was called John Kirby, and is the reason a certain pink puffball is named Kirby
I always heard it was because there was a brand of vacuum cleaner called Kirby.
Fun Fact: idk if John Kirby is now the secretary of defense in the US but seeing him in news made me wonder how the guy gone through.
@@maximizejyle it's another John Kirby lol but the coincidence is still funny nonetheless
I still can't believe Helena Taylor killed her entire career with a few tweets. Actually insane.
Yeah you can lose all your credibility in a tweets
@@JuanGomez-ke5pyexactly, just take most comedians cancelled over one tweet over a decade ago 💀
Find out the voice actress of Jeanne tried to kill her career by going against an independent stop-motion animator.
And I’m sure she can’t even go back to theater acting where she originally started. If she thinks she only can’t voice act again, she’s dead wrong.
@@francorota8638grey delisle kinda has a list of stuff tbh ....
Jennifer hale supports Israel..... So there's that....
Love Pokemon to death, but the fact that there’s too many controversies to even talk about any of them is hilarious lol
As awful as scarlet/violet can be, I still say big time the lies during sw/sh was the worst. Like I don't even care about the dex cuts cause it doesn't really affect a lot of people, if your favorite doesn't make it in just use other mons its not a big deal (though certain pokemon not getting cut like charizard/pikachu is unfair). But "removing them for balance", followed by putting zacian/urshifu/calyrex in the game... Blatant lies🤣
It started in rse in where you can’t catch them all going back on the iconic slogan of the 90s
@@darcidious99TBF, this type of shit is something Gamefreak has been doing since at least Gen 4, where they gave Regigigas Slow Start to make sure it wouldn't be too OP... and then proceeded to add Arceus in the exact same generation, then Mega Rayquaza two generations later
@@dataexpunged4784 see regigigas I dont mind too much because you can always do skill swap shenanigans and have fun with that, similar to slaking, it just alters your playstyle a bit. Mega rayquaza yeah that was just indefensible, I have no clue why they ever gave legendaries megas that boosted stats and made then beyond broken, but they didn't remove pokemon for "balance" and then put him in, all the mons were still accessible. They've never been good at balancing and even when they do give older mons new stuff it can result in blaziken shooting up to ban worthy too. Sw/Sh is just all the other issues at their worst cause not only is the game NOT balanced and not only did dlc further ruin the balance, but now I can't use girafarig or comfey if i want to (btw I have no clue if those 2 were added in dlc, I'm just using them as examples). Mega rayquaza is prob the worst we've ever gotten, if not the zacian/calyrex have to be the worst.
It doesnt help that its hard to differentiate what's a legitimate problem and what's just everyone being a little bitch because no one hates pokemon more than pokemon fans and they are upset after every single release bar none. There is always something good to come with a pokemon game and some glaring issues but the fanbase is so divided because its one of the biggest fandoms on the planet earth, that its impossible to know if a game in the franchise is genuinely good and fun with or without flaws unless you just play it.
Helena Taylor is the example of someone who complains, gets it her way, and then wants it a different way SOLELY to complain.
Reminds me when my siblings were 2 years old.
She was such an idiot and a naive narc it seems lol
22:50 there is something soo funny about”im seriously reconsidering my purchase of the cube”Not even calling it gamecube just THE CUBE like its some dystopian future and they just bought some floating malicious cube.
The smash bros community is nothing but controversy. I love smash bros, I really do, but the amount of toxicity bullying harassment grooming and manipulation in that fandom is just crazy
it’s like, a handful of chronically online weirdos and everyone else who actually plays the game is chill
Nah , their just baby mario from yoshi Island crying .
Same with Pokémon since at least Gen 6 if not Gen 5
Amen.
Won't lie, I haven't been playing any Smash Bros Games as my own personal Boycott against the Toxic Community.
@@SMEARGLEX75 You're not making a statement by not buying a Smash Bros game. Also most of the toxicity comes from haters.
Most prevalent Kirby controversy I recall would be the shoddy localization for Star Allies, which led to scrutiny on the 3DS titles and their localization, and the Kirby lore fandom was in shambles.
Forgotten Land came out with much better localization and everyone was happy.
New fans may not know this but back before Return to Dreamland. Kirby fans had to watch “Kirby GCN” go through development hell and people were desperate for a mainline console Kirby game after Kirby 64. Nintendo promised it would come put for the Wii.
Fast forward to the Wii and Epic Yarn came out, fans were pissed off because they though THAT was the brand new Kirby game and not a spinoff.
This was kind of a Metroid Federation Force situation but for Kirby.
i believe theres also some content in the manga (the main one thats being localized at the moment) thats,,,, questionable, but since were sticking to game content i guess theres also the whole debate over whether the mage sisters are related or just nuns?
Kinda surprised they left Wham Bam Rock out
Star Allies led to scrutiny on the 3DS titles? Didn’t Star Allies come out after all the mainline 3DS Kirby games?
@@cainlightning5966 Yes, you are correct. I’m saying that people went back to the 3DS titles more critically after Star Allies’ localization issues to parse whether or not they were accurate.
Another issue with Fire emblem fates was that the original script was 1600 pages. I wish I wasn’t joking. Apparently it goes that the story writer was hired and told to write a unlimited amount of pages but there had to be three subplots (basically the Nohr Hoshido and third path) that intertwined with the same setting.
And the final version only used a fraction of it.
But basically what I’ve read of it and what other people have seen since it was leaked onto the internet years ago Hinoka wasn’t supposed to exist and added in as a polar opposite of Camilla and Kagero was supposed to be in Hinokas place as the oldest Hoshidan princess
Mario: Dresses in a poncho and sombraro, playing mariachi music and having a good time in a mexican themed area
Native Mexicans: Heck yeah I love this, please show more, I want to see more things representing my culture
Mexican-americans: "Uh yikes sweaty, I've never been to mexico and don't know spanish but my grand father was mexican and even though I've never been to mexico in my life, i can safely say that as a mexico expert. This is offensive to mexicans because representing their culture is actually a stereotype somehow :)"
Not even mexican americans, more anyone that doesn't have roots in mexico
Yeah this offends white girls more than it does Mexicans, which is stupid
Yeah as a Mexican-American I can say none of us cared and were hyped to see Mario in a sombrero. It was mostly the non-Mexicans/gringos who were big mad for some reason.
For Donkey Kong there was a Lawsuit in 2013 because a person hired by Nintendo for to dress as DK for some Martketing for Tropical Freeze, was using a heavy suit without any cooling device causing the guy to suffocate.
No that wasn’t marketing Tropical Freeze it was for the 3DS version of Returns though Metroid fans did attack the reveal of Tropical Freeze since Retro gave DK attention and not Metroid
@@brandonkong4299 thx! I didn't remember it very well and didn't want to do research, thank you for completing the info.
Five Nights at DK's was almost official.
@@GottaFistDemAll R.I.P my nigga got springlocked 🙏🏿😭😭😭
Splatoon managed to get AN ACTUAL CONTROVERSY since this video released.
The new special weapon, the “Splattercolor Screen”, provides visual and audio effects that have caused headaches, eye irritation, migraines, and one person even needed medical attention. This was added into the game in a post-launch update, and this update has overall had a lot of oversights in it.
Edit: They took care of the visuals at least.
YES the epilepsy special
first time I got hit by it I thought my character was being obliterated
All is does is make the screen black and white and play a sound effect
@@Superabound2the sound is too high pitched for most people and the black and white makes everything WAY too bright
I think its like pretty easy to get it from your point of view. Like yeah I guess the screen being black and white and a silly noise doesnt seem like a whole lot. But I personally hated the special (before it got fixed) cause I have sensitive eyes so it would be kinda painful
Like when its too sunny outside I actually just- go blind!! Everything in front of me goes white!!(and then my head hurts) So yeah the effects of screen were definitely real
@@rrzzz-ll2zm Hey, that thing is REALLY high-pitched and the screen got REALLY bright before they fixed it.
I like not having migraines or giving people migraines.
22:39 This comment really sums up why people rally so hard around Zelda to the point of freaking out over an 8.8. People want Zelda to be that series that can match up to the "hardcore" games, completely against what Nintendo is.
To be fair, Zelda is kinda the oddball from the mainline nintendo franchises because there are geniune attempts at taking itself more seriously and telling more involved stories(well, more involved than your typical nintendo story at least) instead of following the usual nintendo MO of having no stories or having stories that dont take themselves seriously.
Just recently Splatoon had what I would consider to be its first big controversy (excluding ones involving other series). On December 1st this year a new special was added to the game, the splatcolor screen. What it did is when you walked through it the game would go greyscale and a sort of white noise would start playing for a few seconds after passing through it. Because of how the greyscale effect was handled though, it was incredibly bright and was practically a flash bang. This lead to a lot of players with photosensitivity and various other sensory disabilities being in extreme discomfort, physical pain, or nearly passing out in some cases while fighting it. I don't believe there have been any known cases of someone having a seizure because of it, but people on twitter really like to throw the idea around. Discussions on whether or not to ban it started immediately and are still ongoing, but it also brought up a lot of other issues players had with the games accessibility, like the incredibly limited color lock options for colorblind players, the massive disadvantage using stick controls gives you, and weapons like the squeezer and inkbrush requiring you to mash the fire button to use at speeds fast enough a lot of people can't do it or risk injury by doing so.
So it’s splatoons own porygon?
My headcanon is that Nintendo of America checked with the higher ups in Japan to make sure they were never planning on making another Tomodachi Life game before promising a "more inclusive" next entry lol
My life would be complete with a Tomodachi life sequel
I hope that’s not true, because I really want a tomodachi life sequel on Switch. It sold million on 3DS so I don’t think they’d skip out on a sequel.
i mean, even though inclusivity would be nice, if i even got a tomodachi life sequel at all i would be more than happy
Honestly I really wonder how a Tomodachi life on switch would work since it heavily used the two screens
Dude that’s EXACTLY like my theory on why they won’t make another tomodachi game. The only difference is that in my theory, the gay marriage promise *is* the reason they can’t/won’t make another game. Gotta market it to places like China and Russia after all.
Adding on to the Punch Out controversy, one of the intermissions had one of the fighters read a book with scanned in manga panels from Sailor Moon, which I believed got Nintendo sued.
No, they weren't sued. It was Nintendo who sued Next Level Games, the company behind Punch-Out!! Wii for breach of contract, and Nintendo chose to pay Bandai Namco for using Sailor Moon assets in the game so they wouldn't be sued themselves.
@@TheSwedeMoffo Oh I didn’t know that part. It’s kind of funny when you think about how Nintendo sued themselves since they own NLG (I know this was before Nintendo bought them).
@@TheSwedeMoffo why would they need to pay bandai namco? they don't own the series.
@@LoliconSamalikthey probably have the rights for it being used in games? Not sure if that's true or not though
the most hilarious part is the said panels cannot be viewed under normal gameplay whatsoever, you need a camera mod or to look at the game files to even know it exist. And even then its so blurry youd only ever know its sailor moon by comparing it until you find a match
I hate that punch out doesn't have new games. I am Spanish and I fucking love Don Flamenco even though I'm in a region of Spain that there is nothing that can remotely resemble the stereotypes they show on him.
I think that's the main point of Punch Out, to make silly and exaggerated characters that everyone identify but doesn't relate to real life. I wish people saw that
I'm kind of surprised that during the nintendogs section, it wasn't mentioned how in the DS game you were able to connect to other players and meet their dogs and rely a pre-recorded voice message to each other. When I was little, I remember meeting another person's dog (I was gifted the game so it might've been a previous friend/player) and the voice message was VERY disturbing, telling me they were gonna kill me and my family. It left me super scared and crying for at least a week, I'm surprised it didn't happen to anyone else! Either way, super cool video!!!👍
The most compelling theory I've heard as to why they don't want to touch Mother 3 is with how much shit they'd need to change, the fan translation holds closer to the original vision than anything worth doing in the present day. The amount of controversies that would spring up means they'd need to censor and potentially rewrite fair amount of it, something they probably aren't keen on doing. I've also heard that some of the music in the game would have some liscensing issues, that's another way they'd end up altering the game's original vision. The thing is too, they are completely aware of the fan translation, but they've done absolutely nothing to it the many years it's been available for download. The spirit for the Masked Man being called such is a direct result of that translation, he's known as the Masked Boy in the original release. And on top of that, the night before the fan translation's release, the team got an email warning them something along the lines of the patch disincentivising Nintendo from ever touching Mother 3 again, sourced from somewhere in Japan
Even if Mother 3 did get remastered, Nintendo would have to remove the pop culture references and boob pixie ladies to remain concise and timely. They did it with their most faithful project ever Mario RPG, it's a no-brainer they'd do it again.
@@scrittle That's sad. ☹
It’s really sad, that game was absolutely amazing from an emotional, mental, and gameplay standpoint. This game along with Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger are absolute gems of the JRPG genre. I’ve never really taken video games seriously, because it’s just a piece of hardware used for my entertainment or to pass the time, but Mother 3 was different.
Crazy idea I know but...maybe just pay the people doing the translation and release the game🤡
@@Weneedaplague if they paid the people doing the translation and released the game then it would become an oficial product and they would have to change the shit that they need to change to not spark controversy, the translation being fan made means that mainstream media is not going to get in nintendo's ass for what is in the original version of the game
Mexican here,still mad about the removal of mexican mario from the box art, like.... alot, i dont usually feel like this, but this is the one time i got genuienly mad
I was so happy to see Nintendo reference Mexico so much in this game for foreigners to get mad about it.
I think that was around the time when Donald Trump was elected as president of the United States and he was pretty Anti-Mexican Anti-Latin American when was he was on that agenda like building that dumb border wall that never got finished, I actually checked the box art, and I found out that they didn’t removed Mexican Mario, they moved it to the back of the box
It sucks when people ruin it for other people. Bring it back.
The amount of people I've heard say that Wii Fit helped encourage their ED's has completely ruined the game for me
kirby tecnically was also involved in the universal vs nintendo controversy since kirby's name is a homenage to jonh kirby who was nintendo's attorney during the universal
Funny thing is there is an actual robot Chicken skit that Nintendo had a hand in which shows somebody asking Reggie about mother 3, only for him to kill the guy. So Nintendo is 100% aware that we want mother 3, but they don't care.
I recommend checking out the video from Moon Channel about Mother 3. From the perspective of a lawyer is explained the hardships of localizing the game for overseas.
Damn
@@Alex_G.7that guy is a clown
@@polocatfan
If you would care to elaborate I may care about your opinion.
@@polocatfan You are an hypocritical moron, aren't you?
Surprised that out of all the modern Fire Emblem games you didn't mention Three Houses. Fates definitely had the biggest uproar at the time but the fact they went in and replaced Byleth's Male VA after launch for breaking NDA (potentially leaking the smash fighter) is still a crazy situation
Wait how did he leak Byleth as a fighter? I’m only really familiar with Byleth’s second VA tbh
I'm completely new to fire elmblem with three houses being my first but damn this is my first time of hearing this, I remember how bad when they even got into smash to begin with
Maybe it got kicked under the rug by this point but the original voice Chris Niosi was outed for psychologically abusing his ex a little bit after the game came out (maybe a few months). I don't really remember the whole situation but people think that he got the boot instead because he kept telling people "I am the new fire emblem protag I'm gonna be in smash". He might have not actually known but they replaced him pretty quickly. It's worth noting that Christina Vee was the original voice of Edelgard and got kicked for announcing it too early which is why people think it was the NDA breach and not his personal life.
@Injoltl Ah thank you for telling me this
@@Injoltl > It's worth noting that Christina Vee was the original voice of Edelgard and got kicked for announcing it too early which is why people think it was the NDA breach and not his personal life.
While it was the NDA Breach that ultimately got Niosi kicked, Christina Vee wasn't kicked for announcing too early. It was due to the localization team getting deeper into Edelgard's character and realizing that Tara Platt fit Edelgard far better. Christina Vee would not only reprise certain roles for Fire Emblem Heroes even after 3H's release, but also voiced Merrin in Fire Emblem Engage. When you break an NDA it's incredibly unlikely the company wants to work with you again. Nintendo in particular is a company you REALLY don't mess with when it comes to NDAs.
We do happen to have a controversy in the Kirby series - Sakurai, who directed Dreamland, Adventure, and Super Star, and Shimomura, who directed Dreamland 2, DL3, and Kirby 64, split after working together on Nightmare In Dreamland for unknown reasons - potentially creative differences. This caused the "dark era" for the franchise where it didn't have a consistent director until Return to Dreamland, where Kumazaki stepped in. We also don't know much about Shimomura and who he is, either.
As a Hispanic, I don't give a tail about the Mexican wear. I welcome it. Plus in the end of the day, It's just Twitter being Twitter
The Pokémon franchise has the fun distinction of being controversial from basically day one. 😆
From a gen 4 standpoint, criticism started to pile up after the release of Pokemon B/W for changing up the formula in what long-terms fans believed were unnecessary retractions. They hated the circular map, exclusively gen 5 Pokemon only until post-game, no legit elite 4 battle until after credits, constant plot deviations, not much post-game content and some weren't a fan of Team Plasma.
B2/W2 resolved most of these issues by allowing all Pokemon to be caught, a real elite 4, less plot deviations and more post-game content. Which is a shame, because B/W was an amazing game that tracked far too much hate, I was unaware of the discourse and thought it was awesome and fans today believe the same (even if a few still believe B/W is only valued out of nostalgia).
X&Y (my fav) got complaints for feeling unfinished. S/M for reusing models, handholding for too long, gym scrapping, mandatory cutscenes. US/UM for reusing models & lazy mythical/legendary encounters (more info needed). Sw/Sh for reusing models, bad writing, mandatory EXP share, low quality textures, difficulty, Dexxit, Pokemon Home, unfinished settings, expensive DLC, and broken feature (ie skip cutscenes).
Sc/Vi is every single complaint Pokemon has ever had, but with the addition of poor performance.
Gamefreak and the Pokemon Company are at fault but god all mighty us fans are no better!
@@scrittle Yeah, I suppose if we only consider the games, it's like, you need further installments in a series before the fandom can really have controversies to choose from. Plus the internet wasn't what it is now when Gen 1 came out.
But as a 30-something, oh boy was the initial Pokémon fever wild. There were controversies over every major youth-aimed franchise and Pokémon was a huge example. The merch, the cards, the show.
Many parents were baffled by the appeal of the whole thing. Some were concerned about violence, even cartoon violence, and the "chicken fighting" element. Some people just felt it was low quality entertainment and overexposed. Critics hated Pokémon: the First Movie. 😆
Much like with Pogs and Tamagotchis, there were playground bans of Pokémon cards due to religious or moral reasons and/or kids fighting over them. The demand for games, merch, and cards led to brawling adults in stores.
Before Pokémon came out in the West, there had been some news of the seizures incident from the anime. So as far as we were concerned, controversy existed from day one.
Plus, you could probably make the case that the concept of having multiple versions of the game to encourage "collecting" was something of a profit-oriented move. Same with hidden event-only Pokémon.
I think for fans, Hey You, Pikachu! might have been the first really divisive game. To some extent Pokémon Snap, but that was pretty beloved overall. I remember when Blockbuster had kiosks for printing stickers from Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Snap. Good memories. 🙂
@@scrittleon that last thing:
Recently, I've seen that the hate on S/V has died down a lot.
Not only are the reviews shifting to "crime against humanity" to "I mean, it wasn't steaming shit", but most are praising the new models (for the Pokemon, that is.
Even I won't say that the map looks good.).
I think that Gen 8 is still more hated, but mostly because it was so popular.
@@gasterthemaster6490 ngl they truly messed swsh up. Best character designs and good gym designs (no seriously having a stadium being a gym and chants changing their to theme and if your pokemon faints is great) and they could've done so much more with the worldbuilding that they were setting up I'm kalos and unova but alas it's pokemon game they have as much depth as a kiddie pool.
When you rip off a series about recruiting literal real world demons from actual religions, there's gonna be controversy no matter how much liposuction Pikachu undergoes
The example of "racism" screams "You're American, the rest of the world doesn't make that connection at all.".
Yeah unfortunately it’s true Americans do make everything about themselves even the marginalized groups here 😅
Yeah that's what happens when you've got free speech in America, something the rest of the world doesn't understand.
That said, many people who live in America should be paying a subscription for their speech, especially if they have a platform or are a journalist.
The generalizing in this thread is insane. You guys should go outside, spending all day on Reddit making shitty geopolitics jokes is really wearing down on some of you guys' mental states.
@@razztasticwhat's a reddit?
@@razztastic "Generalizing is bad!" (proceeds to call everyone they disagree with "Redditors" and makes fun of their daily routines). Yeah, you're no angel here either.
The objective truth is that white Americans _are_ often the first to whine about "offensive" stereotypes that other cultures are perfectly okay with. It's not wild or controversial to point this out. That's just what happens when you have a country like America, where the majority of people live relatively cushy lives compared to the rest of the world. They need to invent problems to be mad about so that they feel like they're accomplishing something.
20:23 this is a game made a Canadian studio btw
Hi! OG splatoon player here, uhh all 3 of the Splatoon games have a had a lot of other controversies, but most were just part of larger controversies like Nintendo’s music copyright debacle or questionable balance changes in the game, or worst of all: major accessibility issues with a special attack that messes with the users’ audio and screen colors that triggered large amounts of sensory issues for people with auditory and visual forms of epilepsy
I was a little surprised for punch out you didn’t mention the arcade version featuring a different name for soda popinski in vodka drunkinski and the Italian character pizza pasta
As an Italian I love Pizza Pasta 😂
surprised the splatoon one wasn't the sanrio marina plushie, but this one's also super interesting
i thought it was gonna be about Shiver
@@Mikauo_Xblade was shiver a controversy? i feel like it was ppl getting excited and then nintendo corrected themselves. i didnt really see anyone making a big deal about shiver being actually female
@@sleepygeekyandreadytodream...y well, it wasnt a big deal, but some people acted like it was. Just the internet being the internet you know.
Or the whole fact that japan was accused of skewing every single splatfest in shiver’s favor bc racism only for frye to win the very first regional splatfest in japan. But that ones fucking awful too
@@sleepygeekyandreadytodream...yDamn I remember that-
You just gave me unwanted flashbacks
That's so awesome that Terry crews wants mother three to be localized. I feel like he might actually really be a fan because surprisingly he was actually able to build a computer for his son so he must be in the video games too is by his amazing physique and comedic timing
Oh boy... as a kid I never really understood why my cousins and friends got injured in Mario Party's Tug-O'-War. I just used the groove between my thumb and my palm, and bam! No wounds!
Can't believe you didn't talk about the golden sun controversy. Basically the controversy with all of them is WHERE THE FUCK is my sequel.
You mean the one that failed hard on the DS?
@@StrategicLemon
There is no The Promised Land season 2
There is no Pokémon BW anime
There is no Golden Sun 3
@@Allen-qs2xr Golden Sun Dark Dawn exists. There's your Golden Sun 3. What's the issue?
if it can be called controversy, the recent switch ports of pikmin 1 & 2 have generated considerable backlash towards the censorship/alteration of several treasures & dialogue (particularly the emails).
Weren't a lot of the treasures on 2 replaced because they were product placement? Like Nintendo didn't want to renegotiate the contracts for them or something.
@@beingmegucaissuffering.5326 the treasures that were blatant product placement had their textures replaced, yes. i can see why considering all three regions had different treasures, but eh. i was specifically referring to the changed treasure descriptions/censored emails, like louie’s backstory getting changed so his nana never forced him to eat bugs as a kid (among other changes).
@@eddieposting Ah, I wasn't aware of the other changes. That sucks.
its also changed that instead of olimar's wife blowing the money on gambling she instead gets robbed by a pickpocket. it makes her realization of the person she's become less meaningful as a result
fan bullshit, most of it barely affects the game.
daisy not being in super mario strikers really goes to show that so many companies just release games before all the intended features and content are done and then release them in slow trickle. it always results in bare bones games bc the content that should’ve been included (and likely was intended) is now considered extra
This might seem random, but I couldn't help but think of 9/11 when reading those Wind Waker comments. Like, everyone was all up in arms about graphics in a video game, and then less than 3 weeks later something that's ACTUALLY fucked up happened
Edit: And then you brought up 9/11 for Advance Wars, lol
Pokémon needs a whole series of videos all by itself.
Considering Mario as a character has met the textbook definition of cultural appropriation for decades now, regardless of whether or not you find him offensive (which for the record, as an Italian-American I don’t, most of my family doesn’t, but my mom does to the point where she got mad at me for doing the voice when I was younger), I found the sombreo controversy to be just infuriating because it was clearly just people virtue signaling.
Its not appropriation, its a national stereotype and barely at that
@@LynnHermione Yes, I think people are mixing up "cultural appropriation" with stereotypes. The latter isn't inherently bad if the stereotype isn't meant to be dehumanizing, though the problem usually lies in cliche.
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Not to mention Obese is a medical term. So it wouldn't be out of place to use it.
imo, nintendo kinda stopped being a fun and wholesome company after regge left and iwata died (rip, i still miss him, one of the greatest men to live, he impacted my life forever even if he never knew me.) their main focus seemed to he money instead of fun. of course they wanted money before but they still did fun stuff, and the company didnt seem like another corporate bore, but now, nintendo has become exactly that. i dont care if the wii had outdated tech, and the wii u sold badly, they adapted around that and innovated and made experiences that nobody else could copy.
Voyan is 100% correct, the Pokémon series has too much controversy but none of it is worth mentioning because it’s stupid
You know what's a disgrace to the Zelda franchise? Announcement of a Zelda live action movie when live action movies of popular IP's tend to be BOX OFFICE FAILURES
Yep. Just think about that live action movie of Mario way back.
They really should’ve gone the animated route.
Hard pessimism being displayed here. We have no idea how this is going to look until the trailer, what we really need are the names of the movie companies involved.
Let's see how well this comment ages...
You may be right, but you might be dead wrong. It is way too early to judge.
Dude, tell that to Detective Pikachu and Both Sonic movies.
i still have hope! since i believe nintendo will be so incredibly critical of it that it will be send back to the drawing board over and over until it finally releases somewhere around 2030 or so!
but personally, if they made a Sci-fi movie based on Metroid, i would be happy! (still waiting for Metroid Prime 4...)
Fun fact, one of the lawyers in the Donkey Kong case was "John Kirby" who was honored by changing the name of game character "Tinkle-Po-Po" to just "Kirby"
Prove me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Kirby was gonna be called "Po-Po-Po," and Kirby's Dreamland (the game) being "Twinkle Po-Po."
@@PBJProdutsionss5479 I think you're correct either that or you're think of Lo-Lo-Lo and La-La-La
Mexicans: yay representation!!
White Twitter people: erm actually 🤓👆
I wonder how Fire Emblem Fates avoided an M rated.
This video is so well written. I love the fact that you used the links between the franchises in order to pass from one to another, great one.
30:00 You know You have done something good when even fucking Peta likes Your game
1:57 actually, Italy has the same religion as Mexico they both are Catholic and no one talks about that?
So DK is a kidnapper and possible racist
And wario did nothing wrong
The Mario Lore is amazing
No Cranky Kong is, DK is innocent.
@@GUNUFofficialDK is guilty of kidnapping tho. Did you forget M vs DK?
@@flamingphoenix1425 oh yeah I forgot.
The only things we know about Kranky is he was abused by Mario, and kidnapped Mario's girlfriend. DK grew up to copy in his father's footsteps but ultimately moved on from harassing Mario's women.
@@flamingphoenix1425or Punch Out Wii if you lose
I’m glad to see Judge Voyan discuss New Horizons. Now I can finally form an opinion on the game
20:38 To be fair, Nintendo is a Japanese company. Is it really racist if they also include stereotypes about their own culture?
And before anyone says this is the English port, it’s still a Nintendo product. We already know how anal they are about their games (cough Zelda CDI cough). There’s no way someone from the Japanese branch doesn’t approve everything before release.
To add more onto the Xenoblade controversy, one dude on Twitter complained about the sexual stuff being sexist and all that. Until someone roasted him by showing that he was a SO 💀
Thats why japan is better they can have sexy stuff nobody cares here censur everything good looking boobs everything bit be hypocrite and make men even more jacked and shirtless
SO?
@@holypupi S*x Offender
Was he only a sex offender recently when he said that? If not, that just seems fucked up
@Ismatic1906 No it wasn't a recent crime.
I’m actually shocked that you didn’t mention project rainfall and the following GameStop controversies for Xenoblade. Xenoblade has been fighting for its life in the United States since the very first game
It wasn't really much of a controversy though was it? I just heard that they just sent a lot of letters into nintendo to get the games over?
Can we don’t censor boobs ans good looking waifus why are females always try make everything worse western female characters looks like men now misandrist pure usa
And now Xenoblade 3 gets its release date pushed from September to July and caused My Nintendo’s servers to crash.
I have literally never in my entire life seen anything but love and adoration for Xenoblade. Wtf are you smoking?
As horrible as that dog attack story is, the use of Sif's battle theme in the background absolutely killed me 😂
Dude that's fking wild XD
10:20 Universal in the 1980’s : Nintendo how dare you copy our King Kong 😠
Universal 2024: Nintendo do you wanna be featured in our parks😃
The mario kart one where people are mad about size limits on the rides is just them being mad that they can't make a new super-heavyweight class in mario kart tbh
I never minded sombrero Mario ngl, Mario's just a funny little guy, he means no ill will! Usually, anyway. The Gay Bowser incident shall not be forgiven, how Mario just tossed him into all those bombs... truly a tragic day in the Mushroom Kingdom.
it’s canon that bombs are gay in mario
Nintendo controversies range from the most overblown non-issues... or situations that only Nintendo get themselves into because of being a Japanese, stubborn, weird toy company. They're a roller coaster of a company to follow history wise.
I would get annoyed with the lack of pikmin content
But this technically means that pikmin is more perfect than mario
Wasn't there some problem with Kirby's Dream Land 3 where it had to bump the rating from E to E10+ because Zero shot its blood at you? Also that one stage in Kirby's Dream Land 2's red canyon stage
I really hope they do another Tomodachi
I agree
Agreed
I'd say arguably a pretty big controversy that isn't well noted for DK is regarding royalties of the original arcade game code - they'd originally outsourced development of the game to an outside studio, then went and modified that code outside of the agreed terms for donkey Kong jr then didn't pay them a cent
Video came out RIGHT before Splattercolor screen oops
(17:07) The original anime had more scenes or even whole episodes removed from localized dubs. I can't list them all by memory but I can recall some:
- A horror-themed episode that made references to horror movies such as psycho and whatnot. Fake blood gets used in a couple of scenes
- An episode where Dedede is obsessed with knowing what Escargoon looks like without his shell
- An episode where Otakus(?) make an anime involving a heavily sexualized rendition of the child character, Tiff.
If we're talking about stuff within the Kirby games themselves: In Dream Land 2, in a certain section of a level, the blocks that make up this section crudely depict a naked woman...
But it's so hard to notice without hacks or having a full layout, so when people do notice it, it's just a "huh... ok". Not really controversial it's just there
This is truly a Gay Bowser moment 😢
#BringBackGayBowser
I wonder how many people know he actually says king bowser!
We have Bowser kissing Mario in the cheek in HD now, truly a gay Bowser moment
@@AurallWowVERY AND VERY THANKS
@@AurallWow he doesn't
Martinet said that Mario says King Bowser, but that doesn't make sense, the syllables don't line up
@@juannaym8488He says “Eh Bowser!”
Did you know that Kirby got his name from the lawyer John Kirby, who was Nintendos lawyer in the Universal v. Nintendo lawsuit?
8:13 the thing about this though is that you have to be massive to not br able to ride it im a pretty big guy and i had a lot of room. You gotta be like 400 to not be able too
Fr, you have more important things to worry about if you don't reach the size threshold
To be fair, the Fire Emblem Fates editions had way more differences than Pokémon editions. It featured a pretty different storyline with different characters.
Tough it sucked that the Last Story mode is locked behind DLC. But I did like having that special version that cointained the 3 in 1, which is the same that Pokemon does but not as bad. Still, not because it does it better it means that is good, as the Hero story, Dark story and Last story easily fit in one cartridge
Pokemon at least justified the separation to promote socialization and trade with friends, there it makes sense to only change a couple of obtainable pokemon between versions. But there's literally no benefit to any player or their friends to have any of the 2 separate versions, and there it could also be said that if the special edition should have been a single game, then it makes its higher price not really justifiable
@@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz I think the amount of content can be justified, but yeah the higher price is annoying. I'd say it having some of the best gameplay in the series, especially with Conquest makes up for it but it had weaker narratives as well than most other entries.
It did but the fact they made it a limited edition physical also means with the eshop being shut down it would be basically impossible to play the full game now without spending a ridiculous amount of money
2 of the 3 storylines were completely unfinished. Both story and gameplay wise. The one that was finished was... okay. Middle of the bunch among FE games
The reason mother 3 hasn't been localised and likely won't be without significant changes is because of it's use of music Nintendo just don't own, the samples aren't altered enough so if they ever did release it in the west the music would have to be completely redone or Nintendo get's sued by the entire music industry
some songs were in smash bros..? and most of the stuff in it is just hard to translate
What music does Nintendo not own in Mother 3? I don't remember them ever using any real life samples, and also considering EB also used samples and got away with it I don't see why Mother 3 can't.
@@heckincat1406 there are full songs copied note for note as battle themes and stuff lol
@@cerealthe72nd Which ones? The only ones I can think of that use similar tones or samples are Mr Batty andGently Weeping Guitar, though my memory is fuzzy.
@@heckincat1406 i dont remember the song name but its a pretty common battle theme, there are a lot of videos that show comparisons you can check out
I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about sticker star. at this point, that controversy _is_ paper mario discourse. they're one and the same. there was even a petition to cancel colour splash because it looked too similar to sticker star.
Golden Sun's biggest controversy is... The cliffhanger at the end of Dark Dawn. Yeah, we're still waiting for the fourth opus MORE THAN TEN YEARS LATER. We've been begging for the past decade, only for Camelot to develop Mario Sports games. This hurts.
Technically in Kirby's Dreamland 2, there was a secret stage section that had a bit of an, "Interesting design". I'm not going to talk about it much, but I found out about that a while back.
Wait was that the.... breasts or dick thing?
-I vaguely remember seeing something like that somewhere a while ago
it wasn't a secret stage. it was literally just a room you pass through in one of the main levels. it seems so innocuous but then you zoom out...
was it a dong or sm
@@cerealthe72nd naked woman
I think if you want to look at a controversy with Splatoon that doesn't involve the #SaveSmash situation, I would like to bring up #GearForAll. To summarize, there were a bunch of promotions with Splatoon 2 in Japan (merchandise, Splatfests, gear, etc.) that were never made available outside of Japan. As a result, many western Splatoon fans were feeling left out of a bunch of cool collaborations, so they wanted them to release that stuff overseas. Safe to say, it didn't work at all, as to this day with Splatoon 3, Japan is still getting promotions with other companies all the time, meanwhile the rest of the world only gets table scraps if we're lucky.
That is so cool - my favorite UA-camr - GameGuy53 is featured in this! Even though his channel is not credited in the clip
Honestly the tharja curtain just makes it look like the characters not wearing any panties so it’s arguably worse lmao
mexican mario is so goofy i love him
Honestly, the only reason I haven't done the palm death no.9 move with Superstars tug-o-war is because I don't trust any sort of switch control stick, first or third party, to not absolutely be obliterated by it.
End of this video aged great after todays direct
Tbh Nintendo deserved the Smash 4 leaks because the game was set to release in Japan a month before it would worldwide so a lot of the player base would have the roster spoiled either way.
Cultural Appropriation is taking something from another (usually minority) culture and renaming it and claiming that the culture that took it came up with it all on their own. Sometimes even twisting it to fit the ideals of the culture who took it.
Cultural Appreciation is respectfully partaking in and of a culture other than your own such as wearing traditional festival clothes to a festival, learning the proper way to do a traditional greeting or cook local cultural staples. And this doesn't mean you can't experiment with traditional food either. Food hybridization is one of the best ways to introduce someone who is more reluctant to the local flavors of another country in a package that is more familiar to them. It all revolves around respect.
I hope that people start to understand this soon.
It’s very funny that you brought up Brain Age directly after Kid Icarus: Uprising, because at one point in the latter the character Viridi mentions that her “brain age” is 24. I low-key thought *that* was going to be the controversy for a second: that the game jokingly promoted bogus brain science.
Viridi, even though she is the goddess of nature, is basically a kid, I think that’s the joke
I thought for sure the Punch-Out controversy would be the Sailor Moon panels found in Piston Hondo’s book
I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't sued Nintendo for using Nintendo characters from Nintendo games in a Nintendo game with Nintendo characters.
You're telling me the beloved Ice Climber franchise has never had one single controversy? That just seems so unlikely.
The way you handled the pokemon section was kinda smart. (Get it, because there's like a million other videos talking about it)
4:55 I am looking at four grown men ...well, manipulating their joysticks with their palms.
35:42 song name? It sounds familiar but this is driving me nuts. EDIT. IT WAS THE SIMS. I thought it was but the UA-cam playlist I checked didn't include the track, "Now Entering" by Marc Russo.
To add on to the Kirby controversy, there was a boss in Kirby Super Star, Wham Bam Rock, that was based off of blackface. They changed it in the remake though
He is doesn't looks like he is designed for r4cism
Nintendo: So we figured you love guns
America: Yes
Nintendo: And you love Kirby
America: Yes
Nintendo: So we'll give you a scene of Kirby shooting a gun (17:17)
America: No, cut that out!!
I HEAR ZERO ESCAPE MUSIC, THAT'S REMINISCENCE FROM ZERO TIME DILEMMA AT 25:05
Nintendo hating the Smash Bros. community and making everything they release (amiibo, Mario All-Stars, SNES minis) more rare than Smash players taking a shower are my top Nintendo controversies.
I actually love the hand cramping Kid Icarus Uprising gave me, it was a great incentive to not play for more than like an hour at a time(but also the game is an absolute banger regardless and super worth it).
For Xenoblade I would of probably picked the special edition. It was shadow dropped 3 times and broke the Nintendo store website each time. It was crazy and Xenoblade fans still don’t like Wario because of that.
Also I don’t think “no boob slider” led to the designs in Xenoblade 2. It wasn’t really directed that “in this game every women must have big boobs” it was just how each of the many artist wanted to design the characters. Plus the designer for Dahlia is a women so I think the designs were always meant to be silly and funny rather than misogynistic.
I was never bothered by the site going down and genuinely preferred Nintendos website over any retailer simply bc there were limits to how many could be purchased which helped with slowing scalpers down. Whether it did work or not, idk but I appreciate the effort and wish this was done more often. The ones who freaked out like Aero who saw it as if they were being genuinely disrespected, really showed their first world privilege that day.
As for designs, I remember playing smash with some friends and one of my female friends commented on pyras design saying it was cute. I immediately remembered how initially her design was seen as misogynistic, but funny enough this was coming from the same community's beta men.
I won't ever forget people being mad that they removed mature costumes for the 13 year old party member in the game tho. The fact they were even in the game was mind boggling
@@sonickhable Xenoblade X was a wild game. Plus any of the changes the director said “it’s for the best stuff gets changed overseas” and he says non of the changes ever went against his vision.
imagine taking the appreciation of the female form and twisting it into sexism logic.... It's really gross and projective
The special edition was a colossal mess. I was so mad because I'm 100% sure I signed up to be notified when it was dropped but never received the emails and was thus unable to place an order.
You're kind of contradicting yourself a bit on that last paragraph. If the designs, plural, "were always meant to be silly and fun," that kind of implies that there _was_ an overarching direction for them to all look like this. Which means it _wouldn't_ be just a case of each artist just drawing them as they wanted.
In reality from interviews, the latter was the case. They commissioned a bunch of different artists and gave them not much more than a weapon class and an element as a brief. And they all decided to use their freedom to draw tiddies. I do tend believe that Dahlia was a intentionally over the top -- but the others weren't, and there's _a lot_ of them. Which ends up being the reason Dahlia comes across as straight fetish fuel instead of as silly and fun. She exists in the same game as all these other incredibly horny Blade designs. You can't make fun of a trope while also playing the very same trope 100% straight the entire time.
3:33 you can't just bring that one up without warning I got whiplash bro 😭😭
10:31 Nintendo is older than universal
True, they made cards