Yup. It also meant that anytime someone wrote an online guide for the game they had to basically flip the directions in the guide for game cube versus wii version of the game.
@@axiss5840 that’s because we’re still on the same version of Link, once we get the next version there’s a good chance he will go back to being a lefty
@@JNAB0212 I really, seriously doubt that. He's been right handed for the past 3-4 games. People don't care enough about it. He could have easily been left-handed in BOTW/TOTK, because it doesn't use the motion controls Twilight Princess/Skyward Sword did, but now he's just right-handed.
Yeah, it's something I noticed about the OG FF7, that I feel I have to dig up video evidence of his pervasive right-handedness in-game (and in KH1, what that's worth) to dispel people's Mandela Effects regarding his canonical leftiness. Like, the only thing I remember him holding his sword outright in his left hand was the standalone concept art.
Link in BotW is actually still left handed kind of, every desk in the game has the inkwell on the right side except for desks Link uses, where the inkwell is on the left side. So he still writes with his left hand. In Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, cutscenes show how all the knights are trained in groups, because Link wasn’t appointed as the royal knight yet, he was just taught to use a sword in his right hand like everyone else. As a left handed person, I find it relatable because sometimes you just have to act like your right handed. For example, I’ve gotten use to playing games on keyboard normally with WASD. Although I really hope Link goes back to wielding swords in his left hand.
I'm left handed. as weird as it sounds, I was absolutely devestated as a 16 year old when Twilight Princess for the Wii came out and Link was right handed, with no option to make him left handed. It was why I bought the gamecube version instead - he was still left handed there, and for me, Link was like a weird icon? Like of course most characters are right handed and honestly, it never really mattered which handedness they are. But Link being such a prominent character and even being left handed made me feel... I dunno. I don't wanna say represented, because that is just kinda weird to think about. But it made me happy as a little german boy (hell, I thought his name was Link because Left is Links in german - thought they just removed the s). So now Link being purely right-handed doesn't sit with me. I got it for Skyward Sword, you wanna swish and swoosh the wiimote, but afterwards? Feels weird. like removing a tiny quirk I really liked for no reason. Funnily enough, most left handed people I can think of are from fighting games - either by being forced left-handed like Baiken (sorry babe, you're one of us now) or subtle left-handedness like Siegfried in Soul Calibur (the rare times in cutscenes when he is holding his sword in one hand, it is in his left). Like again, honestly it doesn't matter which handedness characters have. Doesn't change a thing about their personality, which is more important. But a random little quirk like that is pretty nice sometimes.
it makes sense with something like a wii-mote, but does it really matter otherwise? edit: ok, now that i've watched more of the video, i see why it matters in other circumstances too
Bro, you are not alone. I literally felt the same way and even did the whole intentionally buying the GameCube version over the wii version thing. But I'm American so I did not know about that sweet little fact that links is just German for left.
Since you were talking about Dark Souls and the Abyss Greatsword you could've talked about Artorias. He is cannonically left hand and when you meet him he has lost his mind. BUT he has broken his left arm forcing him to fight with his right hand so that people would actually stand a chance at taking him down since he was revered as probably the most skilled swordfighter of his time. This also being the reason why in Dark Souls 2 his sword is stronger in the left hand.
@@RadChad Dark Souls has a habit of letting you fight people who should be way out of your playing field by evening things out via lore-based handicaps. Artorias probably has the most of them out of everyone. He was not only just out of a fight with another Boss, where he got horribly beaten (Manus, Father of the Abyss, ironically another character who fights with his left hand) but also lost his mind, his left arm, which not only meant he had to fight with his offhand, but meant he couldn't use his shield at all. And was separated from his companion Great Grey Wolf Sif. The fact he's been through all of this and still manages to beat your ass with style is probably a big part in why he's considered one of the coolest most memorable bosses in the series, even the Devs seem to agree given how he was referenced in DS2 and 3. Also hi Rad Chad the Mad Lad and Periodically my Dad
Fun fact: Nine times out of ten, Mega Man is typically depicted as left-handed in his artwork. It’s kind of neat that the old sprites forcing him to use his left hand has shifted into an actual piece of characterization for him. Also, X seems to be depicted as ambidextrous, with him seeming to use both hands about equally in his artwork and games.
I haven't read it in a while, but I remember that Link being left-handed was actually a minor plot point in one of the Zelda mangas. (I think it was the first or second Twilight Princess manga.) In a flashback, we see Link training with other soldiers, and they make a point about how hard it is to spar with Link because he's left handed.
My favorite game series of all time is Monster Hunter. I didn't realize that the hunters wield shielded weapons lefthanded. It was so natural looking that I never noticed for a while. It was a nice little moment of realization I had one day. The lore reason is because hunters are taught to prioritize self preservation when hunting monsters.
There was also Illima from Sun and Moon. I didn’t even notice when I first played and I’m left handed. The worst part about it though is that you can customize your player character’s battle style and “left-handed” style is an option. The problem though is that you still throw pokeballs when catching wild Pokémon with your right hand, but in the gen 3 and 4 games your player characters ACTUALLY throw with their left hand!
I was irritated when gen 7 only gave the default throw for left-handed styles. I was aggravated when SV did the exact same thing. Seriously, Ghetsis got a unique left-handed throwing style which the player gets completely denied.
i am right handed but both my parents are left handed, so i grew up (and still live in) a house furnished for left handed people, with left handed tools, and they didnt know how to teach me to do things the right handed way, so i can kinda relate to the left handed struggle but only in my home lmao
As a youth I always played my Wii with the wiimote in my left hand, its what felt normal to me. I loved and played a lot of sword games on the thing but alot of games felt so awkward. I feel motion control game as few as there are now, need to be made with domain hand in mind.
Another interesting thing to note: Every game is inherently more suited to either a left or right handed person, and we have no idea. Most controllers are also asymmetrical, and so by definition each game will either give an advantage to someone who can use the control stick with their dominant hand, or somebody who can use the face buttons with their right hand. And thus, depending on the game, right or left handed players will theoretically have an advantage
Strangely, handedness isn't something I generally think about in gaming, even as a left-handed person myself. The closest I've gotten is noticing who bowls southpaw in Tekken Bowl as a little "ooh that's a neat detail" thing
It's still bafling they never made Link left handed after Skyward Sword And Tears of the Kingdom having such focus on hands is kinda rubbing salt in the wound
I was made aware of this when my boyfriend complained about a game we were playing having controls meant for right handed people and it made me go "wait, are you not?" I'd known this man for six years.
As a lefty, I’ve never had a problem with conventional controls, probably because the initial learning curve of game controls is completely disconnected from any real-world counterpart when it comes to muscle memory (although I can imagine having a bit of an issue in vr). Seeing left-handed characters is always nice but for me I would just like it if more games with customisable avatars had a left handed option. Your character is supposed to be an expression of you so it just feels a little weird watching them doing everything in a completely opposite orientation to what feels natural, which is part of the reason I tend to gravitate towards dual wielding weapons.
I play Minecraft in Left Handed mode so that the subtitles block whatever's in my offhand, something that's not likely to change frequent, as opposed to my main hand, which changes all of the time.
One of the most bewildering things for me is how Sephiroth is portrayed as left-handed in nearly everything expect Final Fantasy VII itself (and the first Kingdom Hearts, go figure). Like, I'd noticed it when I played so many years back, but ever since Advent Children pretty solidly cemented itself as _the_ depiction of Sephiroth (though, Ergheiz was swappin' him up even earlier), it's like I have to dig up video evidence to demonstrate others' Mandela Effects. Like, the only thing I remember him having his sword held outright in his left hand from the OG is his standalone reference art?
Something of note about Link, in Skyward sword and BOTW/TOTK the case can be made that he's right handed because he was raised as a knight, where he was directly taught to use the sword on his right hand, and plus in TOTK, in his house there are hints that he is still left handed, like the placement of a pencil beside a book and whatnot
Fun fact, when I was younger I wanted to get unto baseball. So I went on a journey for about a week trying different stores to find a glove for lefthanded pitching. I was unsuccessful and eventually just didn't feel like participating in games anymore because it felt too unnatural to use thing inverted
Rosalina from Mario Galaxy is left handed, or at least she was, until promotional photos and sports spinoffs made her use the right hand for whatever reason. At least she’s still left handed in Smash.
Next up: Why is there a lack of no-handed people in video games? But in all seriousness, it disheartens me when I realize how little lefties are represented in gaming and media Like, I never thought about how a left handed person would have to get a key board with WASD on the other side possibly Or how weird it must feel to be in first person, and see the player character right handed instead of left handed like the player
As a lefty, after playing fps games for a while (and firing irl right handed because I had to) I just sorta got used to it. The only game I played that had the option to flip viewmodels was Team Fortress 2. Otherwise it’s all right handed. I appreciate it when I can’t but at this point it’s just second hand (get it haha) nature to ignore it.
I get that you're joking with the first sentence there, but to be honest, I do think it sucks that characters with disabilities (like being in a wheelchair, or, yes, lacking hands) are barely seen, and when they *are* found in games, a lot of the time their disabilities either make them absolutely useless at what they're doing, or even outright jokes. Like, yeah, someone lacking hands or even their whole arms is going to make things harder for them, right? But, at the same time, in worlds where magic exists, there's other ways for them to go about the world, like using telekinesis. Prosthetics are also an option, and those are the most represented--which isn't bad at all, for sure, but it does also feel weirdly noncommittal. Sometimes, it'd also be nice to see more characters who don't even need to compensate for it with something else. Baiken I think is a really cool example: she has one eye, she has one arm, and instead of using magic to rebuild her arm, or telekinesis to wield her sword, or anything like that, she's simply just Going To Kill You With One Arm. She's badass, and her physical disabilities don't stop her from being hot, from being strong, and from smelling like 5-day-old barbecue. I'm not someone who's physically disabled myself (i got those mental disabilities though hell yeah), but when I was a teenager, one of my friends only had one hand--he was born like that too, with only a very small sphere of skin connecting to his elbow. Some things were harder for him as a result, but it's not like he needed everyone to carry everything for him, or that he complained all the time about his disability, or anything else that basically goes "my life is hard now because being a disabled person means my whole life is ruined!!!!!!" He was tough, and he was himself, authentically. As a kid, I assumed that having a disability pretty much ruined your life. Once I met him, though, I realized that wasn't really true--sure, maybe you could be a musician and go deaf, or be an artist and go blind, but at the same time Beethoven was deaf, so maybe even that's just an assumption made by the lack of proper representation for people with disabilities. All in all, I think representation is really important, in all ways. I'm glad Rad Chad the Mad Lad (and to some of us, our dad) talks about it as much as he does, because I think he genuinely makes a lot of fantastic points.
Weirdly enough the only game where I've seen a decent amount of left handed characters, of all places, is fucking League of Legends. I think this is mainly because an entire team in a game starts in the bottom left corner, meaning their character will be facing top right most of the time and if there is a prominent feature they want to be seen even from the back, it's better to put it on the character's left side. The most obvious example of this is the champion Kayn, who's left arm and shoulder is entirely corrupted by the darkin scythe he wields exclusively with his left arm. Funny enough, once the darkin in the scythe, Rhaast, breaks free he's also fully left handed. Edit: I only just realized how ironic this is since League's controls make it very hard for a left handed person to play, you'd think that would've crossed their minds when they made it since that could be an easy fix but somehow no
League isn't difficult to play as a lefty because keyboard layouts are so standardized that even as a left handed person you use the right hand configuration. It would be rough if you play with your mouse on the left side, but most people run the gambit as is standardized
Imma just shout out Nero from Devil May Cry. While yes it is circumstantial that he has to hide his right arm being demonic in DMC4. He operates his left as though it’s his dominant & I highly doubt that he would be retconned to ambidextrous moving forward beyond DMC5.
My brother is left-handed, we both worked at a graphic design shop where all the tools were made for right-handed people so he had to get the boss to order left-handed tools so he could do his job.
Sick video dude!! Sheva is one of my favorite lefty characters because it feels so real. I actually didn't even notice until I played Re4VR. When using the rifle I found myself doing the same quirky reloads that Sheva would. So kudos to Capcom for giving enough of a damn to include that attention to detail.
My leftie bestie was writing down something in public and someone started screaming at them in shock and surprise, apparently this sheltered "regular" person had heard of left handed people but never seen a real leftie in their life
As im old, withering away in a retirement home or something someone will chant the words “i am rad chad, The madlad and ALSO your dad” and i will die on the spot
I'm playing RE5 with a friend because Sheva is left handed and he is left handed individual. One time we saw how she reloaded the rifle and we were at awe.
On a more serious note (1:12) my grandpa was born lefthanded and forced to use his right hand growing up, so today he is righthanded. Glad that stuff is over now where I live.
In the inazuma eleven series (an anime football rpg on ds/3ds) the first 4 games in the series had all the action buttons on the right side of the touchscreen. But in the fifth game they added the option to move the actions buttons to the left side of the bottom screen, which I, a lefty, enjoyed very much, because this meant that by using the action buttons i wouldnt cover the bottom screen with my hand and obscure the real time footy action.
Been a day or two since I played it, but I strongly remember playing a Monster Hunter World and suddenly noticing how everyone is using their weapons with the left hand.
Surprised you didn't mention ULTRAKILL. First person shooter game with a setting that not only swaps the weapon you're holding to your left arm, it even mirrors the entire UI to compensate. There's even an option for wielding down the middle, which changes most of the weapon graphics to compensate.
Another thing I have been noticing is eyes. Or, specifically, when a character has one eye. I take a notice every time I see such a character (because I myself have one disabled eye), and about 8 times out of 10 the missing eye is the left one. However, I think that is not without a reason. In my theory, it has to do with people being mostly right handed. Since people historically would cut from the right side more, the left eye is more often in the way of a weapon than the right eye. Thus, people lose their left eye more often
Also, I'm kinda used to everything being right-handed at this point. I can use WASD with the mouse in my right hand just fine. Same with controllers and stuff. But that is specifically gaming-related - stuff like scissors I can use, but it is annoying to not see the actual line you're cutting. But I also just kinda don't think too much about it at this point. I'm used to this. And mostly it is just minor things that are slightly annoying. The worst part is that despite being left handed, my handwriting isn't much better with the left than with the right hand, lmao. That being sad, that is just my experience - there are probably left handed people out there who have bigger problems than I have.
Same here, with how used to certain things being right handed I've gotten it might even be more accurate to call me mixed handed rather than left handed. Some actions I prefer using my left hand and largely it's what's more natural to me but I'm accustomed to using my right hand for other things. In fact, I remember when I used to play Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort I'd have to custom set some of the handedness preferences on my mii to be different depending on the sport, like bowling with my right hand but batting with my left.
As a lefty, i find myself studying the animations of various characters to check if any of them are left handed or not. Also left-handed villains almost don't count for me anymore after realizing how surprisingly prevelant it is for an entire squad of right handed people to go up against a villain, who just so happens to be the only left handed person in the cast. Makes me wish there was a piece of media where it's the complete opposite, where everyone is left-handed EXEPT the main villain.
I feel weird in this regard because even though I'm left handed and I do almost everything with my left hand, I hold two handed guns specifically with my right hand on the trigger, because to me aiming takes so much of my concentration that I have to use my left hand for it, not to mention that, to me, having the left hand on the barrel makes it feel like the leading hand, kinda how it is with swords. I also never minded using the Wii remote and Nunchuck as well as the keyboard in the way that rightos do.
About to watch the video, but for me I play a lot of FPS games, and there is so many titles that just don't have left eye or handed shooting. The only one is Tarkov, who does this cursed side tilt that is off canted and wrongly held.
Im left handed, and whenever i play a shooter i flip the controls from WASD to PL;' It is incredibly cursed and rebinding everything for every game is annoying, but it lets me do a mirror flip of WASD (E is O, Lshift is Rshift and my thumb can rest on the space bar). Its a nice work around but my number 1 pet peeve is when games dont update instructions/tutorials based on your rebinding. Makes things very confusing ! Loved the video btw
I just mostly gave up as a lefty and just do the exact same controls as right handed people for PC games. All standard keyboard layouts are for righties, as well as mice. For wii games though I always used wii-mote left hand, nunchuck right, that just made sense.
Funny enough, my mind immediately went to Artorias of the Abyss from Dark Souls. He is canonically left handed but in his game fight, his left arm is shattered and fights us right handed.
Akihiko persona 3 is actually left-handed btw. Never brought up in game, but he takes a left-handed boxing stance in combat and I think he can also be seen to favor his left hand through the rest of persona 3 (haven't played reload, just fes and original)
As an engineer- most devices that are used in our workshops are right-handed oriented. That isn't a small issue- it is actually safety hazad. You have to operate those tools precisely- so you use your dominate hand, but if machine isn't ambidextrous usually you either: -work in unnatural position -are not protected. Some hand tools even have safety features made specifically to protect you when you use your right hand (for eg. Some agle grinders). I heard that lefties report more accidents at workplace, and when you have contact with production environment you see why.
I played zelda skyward sword left-handed and it was barely more difficult than playing it normally I'm left-handed The game is just a little jank when you hold the wiimote in left and and nunchuk in right, but entirely playable They didn't have to make link right-handed, because the game can be played perfectly well while holding the wiimote and nunchuk differently than link holds his gear I just had to sit off-center from the tv and I would do that anyway
as a leftoid it actually hurts me to see any first person game have a the left handed object cos the right side seems more natural, so thanks video game conditioning
Watching this I remember one of my favorite games (I'm not saying WHAT game it is but it is an anime arena fighter) that one of the characters who in the show was LEFT HANDED was made right handed in the game...
for monster hunter world, for dual weapons like dual blades and sword and shield, you actually use your left hand to attack and your right hand to defend!
Nearly every single person that has seen me use a computer has been mentaly flashbanged as I swap the mouse and keyboard's positions. Also I use WASD, how do I press the space bar? With the bottom right edge of my palm. AND I LEARNED HOW TO B-HOP AND STRAFE IN SOURCE WITH A NATURAL HANDICAP. Also 1:18 > Left handed > Same first name Conclusion: he is literally me
While I'm not left-handed, I'm left eye dominant. Learning how to shoot as a kid was a pain in the ass since there weren't many guns accommodating left handedness
If they really want to be represented, play Monster Hunter. Every weapon is mainly wielded in their left hands, and controllers are ambidextrous anyway. Boom. No longer ostracised and belittled by rightoids.
Into the Radius has the worst left-hand support in VR games. If you select the left-handed option it does flip your bag and watch around to fit left-handed people more easily... But they also swapped the movement stick to the right and the aiming stick to the left.
As a lefty i feel kinda weird about this video since i never take it that deeply that i work more comfortably with the arm more people dont and its kinda nutty to see people rage that a fictional character is not left handed anymore but seeing that most tools are right handed yeah i can kinda see it even if i dont take it that seriously but ey a represantation video about lefties still is something and im gonna take what i have
i'm not left-handed but i do have a mild annoyance in gaming : being french, and by extension using azerty instead of qwerty, wasd in azerty is just uncomfortable so i always have to rebind my keys, it's worse when i can't rebind at all luckily i've seen games implementing presets for keybinds or just reading input not by the letter that was type but by where the key is
Hello Mr. Rad Chad the Mad Lad and to some of us our dad. I just want to say that this video, the representation, and the autistic babes (although i am not a babe) are very "hey that's me" video. Cool. What I'm saying is to stop reading my mind, i think that is an invasion of privacy.
I put my right hand on the numpad, and by golly, it seems better than wasd. Too bad im used to Left hand being the movement hand... Anyways... WHAT ABOUT US AMBIDEXTROUS FOLK? I had to play Half Life: Alyx as a "Leftie", while a much inferior game "Boneworks" allowed me to switch between the hands. I am mostly a Right Hand dominant person, but I absolutely feel like I need a symmetry in function when using and moving around tools. Cover on my right, means I cant use my rifle as easily on my right side. So I switch. If I hammer down a nail while theres something blocking me on the right, I switch hands. Lemme switch hands in VR or else you are turning me into a full leftoid.
This is fun as I am a proud leftoid, but for things like ranged weapons, the hand you choose to use is based on eye dominance. So I have to uncomfortably shoot something like a gun with my right hand because my left EYE is garbage :/
I remember playing dark souls 2 and be happy because I can be left-handed punting my sword in my left and shield in my right.... until in mid-game I get that I wasn't able to do backstabs, they are only right handed... so I had to re-learn the controls to play right-handed.
in Monster Hunter, if you use Sword and shield (THE BEST WEAPON) you use it in the sword in the left hand, i think the great sword is too, the dominate hand goes on top when you are two-handy a weapon
As a Right handed person, i don't understand leftoids who use their left hand for the mouse. Like, even another leftoid, Redshell, uses his Right hand for a mouse
It means left handed people cannot operate at the same level as right handed people who use their dominant hand on the mouse. We are being contained and held back from our full potential.
As a leftoid, I also can't understand why or how fellow lefterals use left-handed mice and keyboards. When I first started using a keyboard and mouse I had no extra trouble with it, unlike if I had to learn to write right-handed or something.
@carpet_appetite I'm the other way around. It was very difficult for me to use a mouse and keyboard at first. Mice aren't ergonomic for left hands, and having to rebind every key in each game was a huge pain. I decided to just sucj it up and use it right handed.
What’s cool is sker ritual a game I play that’s a round based zombies game made by a handful of like 5 indie devs has a feature where you can switch to left handed and the fun and arm will spear on the left side. It was a lil jarring for me but it honestly was cool to see.
@@MaVerik1727 It’s been a debate in the Dark Souls community since Fromsoft and Miyazaky never 100% confirmed it, but nor have they disproven it (at least until now). But eh, I always through it made him cooler and unique, and it’s weird that these debates and theories would exist without a reason to it
@@MaVerik1727 He IS left handed and his left arm IS broken. Thats why he was forced to use his right hand instead. It isn't explicitly confirmed, but Dark Souls very rarely explicitly confirms anything at all, so that doesn't say much.
It’s a real struggle, when I have to spam the left click button I literally have to take my hand off the control stick or WASD keys to do it, I can’t speedrun some games because of it, also if you want to talk about representation of lefties in don’t starve even though characters facing left hold their weapons and item in their right hand in every other orientation every character is left handed
On many mnk games you can change your controls manually. Yes it takes time but there are so many orientations that you can use,devs just can't include all of them, num pad, IJKL, or any other combination on the right side of the keyboard.
I'm left handed and the major challenge I face is with QTEs or certain inputs that require quick, rapid fire button mashing. I have figured out a few ways to deal with this, but they aren't universal
As a left handed guy, I originally played with arrows on the keybord. And then, at some point... I justswitched. Don't remember exactly how it happened, but, most likely, it's because I tried S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat on my elder brother's notebook. Been a game rightee ever since (excep sword games, I switch the sword to the left in those). And you know what? I have come to the point where I'm in fact ambidextrous in life. Not because I was forced to, but because "why not try?"
as a left handed person i am deeply disgusted and disturbed by a righty saying leftoid
Sooner or later we're gonna need to rise up against those rightwards
I can no longer support rad chad.
Same 😔
As a left handed ally, I'm afraid I must, to my dismay, disown my dad.
I never would've predicted that RadDad the MadChad was actually a rightler
I'm actually fucking dying at the fact that-rather than just flipping Link-they flipped the ENTIRE WORLD in twilight princess.
Yup. It also meant that anytime someone wrote an online guide for the game they had to basically flip the directions in the guide for game cube versus wii version of the game.
I'll give you one whole dollar to say skibiti toilet
kniL: !?HUH
I saw this before watching the vid and initially thought you meant the back flip he does when he dodges and it really confused me lol
It’s harder to just flip just one element. Much easier to just flip the screen than to mess with the character rig.
Link getting retconned as right handed broke me
Wasn't he actually retconned to be ambidextrous?
He wasn’t retconned as right handed, it’s just that some versions of him are right handed, like BOTW/TOTK and Skyward sword
He was still changed to being right handed and never changed back.
@@axiss5840 that’s because we’re still on the same version of Link, once we get the next version there’s a good chance he will go back to being a lefty
@@JNAB0212 I really, seriously doubt that. He's been right handed for the past 3-4 games. People don't care enough about it.
He could have easily been left-handed in BOTW/TOTK, because it doesn't use the motion controls Twilight Princess/Skyward Sword did, but now he's just right-handed.
Reminder that Sephiroth, one of the greatest videogame villains, is canonically left handed even if his model loves to hold it in his right hand.
Because left handed people are evil, or at least associated with ill omen in some cultures.
OH?!
Yeah, it's something I noticed about the OG FF7, that I feel I have to dig up video evidence of his pervasive right-handedness in-game (and in KH1, what that's worth) to dispel people's Mandela Effects regarding his canonical leftiness. Like, the only thing I remember him holding his sword outright in his left hand was the standalone concept art.
Finally someone said it!
Link in BotW is actually still left handed kind of, every desk in the game has the inkwell on the right side except for desks Link uses, where the inkwell is on the left side. So he still writes with his left hand. In Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, cutscenes show how all the knights are trained in groups, because Link wasn’t appointed as the royal knight yet, he was just taught to use a sword in his right hand like everyone else.
As a left handed person, I find it relatable because sometimes you just have to act like your right handed. For example, I’ve gotten use to playing games on keyboard normally with WASD. Although I really hope Link goes back to wielding swords in his left hand.
I'm left handed. as weird as it sounds, I was absolutely devestated as a 16 year old when Twilight Princess for the Wii came out and Link was right handed, with no option to make him left handed. It was why I bought the gamecube version instead - he was still left handed there, and for me, Link was like a weird icon? Like of course most characters are right handed and honestly, it never really mattered which handedness they are. But Link being such a prominent character and even being left handed made me feel... I dunno. I don't wanna say represented, because that is just kinda weird to think about. But it made me happy as a little german boy (hell, I thought his name was Link because Left is Links in german - thought they just removed the s).
So now Link being purely right-handed doesn't sit with me. I got it for Skyward Sword, you wanna swish and swoosh the wiimote, but afterwards? Feels weird. like removing a tiny quirk I really liked for no reason.
Funnily enough, most left handed people I can think of are from fighting games - either by being forced left-handed like Baiken (sorry babe, you're one of us now) or subtle left-handedness like Siegfried in Soul Calibur (the rare times in cutscenes when he is holding his sword in one hand, it is in his left).
Like again, honestly it doesn't matter which handedness characters have. Doesn't change a thing about their personality, which is more important. But a random little quirk like that is pretty nice sometimes.
it makes sense with something like a wii-mote, but does it really matter otherwise?
edit: ok, now that i've watched more of the video, i see why it matters in other circumstances too
SoulCalibur's Raphael is left-handed as well.
Also, Fun Fact: The Wii version of Twilight Princess is completely mirrored.
Completely agree. Link still holds a special place for me, and him not being left-handed anymore is a tiny piece of sadness for me.
Bro, you are not alone. I literally felt the same way and even did the whole intentionally buying the GameCube version over the wii version thing. But I'm American so I did not know about that sweet little fact that links is just German for left.
This exactly
Since you were talking about Dark Souls and the Abyss Greatsword you could've talked about Artorias. He is cannonically left hand and when you meet him he has lost his mind. BUT he has broken his left arm forcing him to fight with his right hand so that people would actually stand a chance at taking him down since he was revered as probably the most skilled swordfighter of his time. This also being the reason why in Dark Souls 2 his sword is stronger in the left hand.
Darn, i really shoulda. Bro a real one
@@RadChada neat feature of his sword in the second game is if you use it left handed it gains part of the bosses moveset.
there's also ludwig in bloodborne- when he starts using his sword in his second phase he uses his left hand to do so!
yes please
@@RadChad
Dark Souls has a habit of letting you fight people who should be way out of your playing field by evening things out via lore-based handicaps.
Artorias probably has the most of them out of everyone.
He was not only just out of a fight with another Boss, where he got horribly beaten (Manus, Father of the Abyss, ironically another character who fights with his left hand)
but also lost his mind, his left arm, which not only meant he had to fight with his offhand, but meant he couldn't use his shield at all.
And was separated from his companion Great Grey Wolf Sif.
The fact he's been through all of this and still manages to beat your ass with style is probably a big part in why he's considered one of the coolest most memorable bosses in the series, even the Devs seem to agree given how he was referenced in DS2 and 3.
Also hi Rad Chad the Mad Lad and Periodically my Dad
Rip left handed people who didnt read the "(in games)"
You'll never be forgotten
As a left handed person I can confirm we aren’t real
Fun fact: Nine times out of ten, Mega Man is typically depicted as left-handed in his artwork. It’s kind of neat that the old sprites forcing him to use his left hand has shifted into an actual piece of characterization for him.
Also, X seems to be depicted as ambidextrous, with him seeming to use both hands about equally in his artwork and games.
i dread the day X decide to say "fuck it" and start to dual weild his busters to obliterate anything in his way
@@AllucardBR-JPFS I’m pretty sure he actually does that for one attack in X8 but nobody really cares about that game :P
@@funniloneliboi that sounds almost as cursed as Zero balling with dual sabers
@@AllucardBR-JPFS those would just be fun as hell
I haven't read it in a while, but I remember that Link being left-handed was actually a minor plot point in one of the Zelda mangas. (I think it was the first or second Twilight Princess manga.) In a flashback, we see Link training with other soldiers, and they make a point about how hard it is to spar with Link because he's left handed.
I love how this man has a better track record of representing minorities than most games except guilty gear.
My favorite game series of all time is Monster Hunter. I didn't realize that the hunters wield shielded weapons lefthanded. It was so natural looking that I never noticed for a while. It was a nice little moment of realization I had one day. The lore reason is because hunters are taught to prioritize self preservation when hunting monsters.
If you wanna know how bad it is when I was playing Pokemon Violet I audibly yelled when I saw Hassel being left handed, that's how bad it is
This was me, but Alm from Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valencia
There was also Illima from Sun and Moon. I didn’t even notice when I first played and I’m left handed. The worst part about it though is that you can customize your player character’s battle style and “left-handed” style is an option. The problem though is that you still throw pokeballs when catching wild Pokémon with your right hand, but in the gen 3 and 4 games your player characters ACTUALLY throw with their left hand!
this was me, but with furina from genshin
I was irritated when gen 7 only gave the default throw for left-handed styles. I was aggravated when SV did the exact same thing.
Seriously, Ghetsis got a unique left-handed throwing style which the player gets completely denied.
i am right handed but both my parents are left handed, so i grew up (and still live in) a house furnished for left handed people, with left handed tools, and they didnt know how to teach me to do things the right handed way, so i can kinda relate to the left handed struggle but only in my home lmao
As a youth I always played my Wii with the wiimote in my left hand, its what felt normal to me. I loved and played a lot of sword games on the thing but alot of games felt so awkward. I feel motion control game as few as there are now, need to be made with domain hand in mind.
Domain Hand: Self Embodiment of Pugilism
Another interesting thing to note: Every game is inherently more suited to either a left or right handed person, and we have no idea. Most controllers are also asymmetrical, and so by definition each game will either give an advantage to someone who can use the control stick with their dominant hand, or somebody who can use the face buttons with their right hand. And thus, depending on the game, right or left handed players will theoretically have an advantage
Strangely, handedness isn't something I generally think about in gaming, even as a left-handed person myself.
The closest I've gotten is noticing who bowls southpaw in Tekken Bowl as a little "ooh that's a neat detail" thing
It's still bafling they never made Link left handed after Skyward Sword
And Tears of the Kingdom having such focus on hands is kinda rubbing salt in the wound
TRUE
I was made aware of this when my boyfriend complained about a game we were playing having controls meant for right handed people and it made me go "wait, are you not?"
I'd known this man for six years.
As a lefty, I’ve never had a problem with conventional controls, probably because the initial learning curve of game controls is completely disconnected from any real-world counterpart when it comes to muscle memory (although I can imagine having a bit of an issue in vr). Seeing left-handed characters is always nice but for me I would just like it if more games with customisable avatars had a left handed option. Your character is supposed to be an expression of you so it just feels a little weird watching them doing everything in a completely opposite orientation to what feels natural, which is part of the reason I tend to gravitate towards dual wielding weapons.
I play Minecraft in Left Handed mode so that the subtitles block whatever's in my offhand, something that's not likely to change frequent, as opposed to my main hand, which changes all of the time.
there is also left handed skeletons
One of the most bewildering things for me is how Sephiroth is portrayed as left-handed in nearly everything expect Final Fantasy VII itself (and the first Kingdom Hearts, go figure). Like, I'd noticed it when I played so many years back, but ever since Advent Children pretty solidly cemented itself as _the_ depiction of Sephiroth (though, Ergheiz was swappin' him up even earlier), it's like I have to dig up video evidence to demonstrate others' Mandela Effects. Like, the only thing I remember him having his sword held outright in his left hand from the OG is his standalone reference art?
Something of note about Link, in Skyward sword and BOTW/TOTK the case can be made that he's right handed because he was raised as a knight, where he was directly taught to use the sword on his right hand, and plus in TOTK, in his house there are hints that he is still left handed, like the placement of a pencil beside a book and whatnot
If Resident Evil 5 gets remade, Sheeva will be right handed
Fun fact, when I was younger I wanted to get unto baseball. So I went on a journey for about a week trying different stores to find a glove for lefthanded pitching. I was unsuccessful and eventually just didn't feel like participating in games anymore because it felt too unnatural to use thing inverted
Rosalina from Mario Galaxy is left handed, or at least she was, until promotional photos and sports spinoffs made her use the right hand for whatever reason. At least she’s still left handed in Smash.
Next up: Why is there a lack of no-handed people in video games?
But in all seriousness, it disheartens me when I realize how little lefties are represented in gaming and media
Like, I never thought about how a left handed person would have to get a key board with WASD on the other side possibly
Or how weird it must feel to be in first person, and see the player character right handed instead of left handed like the player
creeper
You get used to it. It's still the games that have a lefty that get your attention.
As a lefty, after playing fps games for a while (and firing irl right handed because I had to) I just sorta got used to it. The only game I played that had the option to flip viewmodels was Team Fortress 2. Otherwise it’s all right handed. I appreciate it when I can’t but at this point it’s just second hand (get it haha) nature to ignore it.
I get that you're joking with the first sentence there, but to be honest, I do think it sucks that characters with disabilities (like being in a wheelchair, or, yes, lacking hands) are barely seen, and when they *are* found in games, a lot of the time their disabilities either make them absolutely useless at what they're doing, or even outright jokes.
Like, yeah, someone lacking hands or even their whole arms is going to make things harder for them, right? But, at the same time, in worlds where magic exists, there's other ways for them to go about the world, like using telekinesis. Prosthetics are also an option, and those are the most represented--which isn't bad at all, for sure, but it does also feel weirdly noncommittal.
Sometimes, it'd also be nice to see more characters who don't even need to compensate for it with something else. Baiken I think is a really cool example: she has one eye, she has one arm, and instead of using magic to rebuild her arm, or telekinesis to wield her sword, or anything like that, she's simply just Going To Kill You With One Arm. She's badass, and her physical disabilities don't stop her from being hot, from being strong, and from smelling like 5-day-old barbecue.
I'm not someone who's physically disabled myself (i got those mental disabilities though hell yeah), but when I was a teenager, one of my friends only had one hand--he was born like that too, with only a very small sphere of skin connecting to his elbow. Some things were harder for him as a result, but it's not like he needed everyone to carry everything for him, or that he complained all the time about his disability, or anything else that basically goes "my life is hard now because being a disabled person means my whole life is ruined!!!!!!" He was tough, and he was himself, authentically.
As a kid, I assumed that having a disability pretty much ruined your life. Once I met him, though, I realized that wasn't really true--sure, maybe you could be a musician and go deaf, or be an artist and go blind, but at the same time Beethoven was deaf, so maybe even that's just an assumption made by the lack of proper representation for people with disabilities.
All in all, I think representation is really important, in all ways. I'm glad Rad Chad the Mad Lad (and to some of us, our dad) talks about it as much as he does, because I think he genuinely makes a lot of fantastic points.
@@dingochungis6814hell yeah the more representation the better! :)
Weirdly enough the only game where I've seen a decent amount of left handed characters, of all places, is fucking League of Legends. I think this is mainly because an entire team in a game starts in the bottom left corner, meaning their character will be facing top right most of the time and if there is a prominent feature they want to be seen even from the back, it's better to put it on the character's left side. The most obvious example of this is the champion Kayn, who's left arm and shoulder is entirely corrupted by the darkin scythe he wields exclusively with his left arm. Funny enough, once the darkin in the scythe, Rhaast, breaks free he's also fully left handed.
Edit: I only just realized how ironic this is since League's controls make it very hard for a left handed person to play, you'd think that would've crossed their minds when they made it since that could be an easy fix but somehow no
League isn't difficult to play as a lefty because keyboard layouts are so standardized that even as a left handed person you use the right hand configuration. It would be rough if you play with your mouse on the left side, but most people run the gambit as is standardized
I just realised that his shirt is the pruposed flag of new zealand that had a kiwi shooting lasers out of it’s eyes.
Imma just shout out Nero from Devil May Cry. While yes it is circumstantial that he has to hide his right arm being demonic in DMC4. He operates his left as though it’s his dominant & I highly doubt that he would be retconned to ambidextrous moving forward beyond DMC5.
To add to this almost every guitar you buy is fucking right handed by default, and my friend hates that I bought a left handed guitar
My brother is left-handed, we both worked at a graphic design shop where all the tools were made for right-handed people so he had to get the boss to order left-handed tools so he could do his job.
Rad Chad is trying to 100% being an ally and I’m all for it
Love this silly lil guy
hes just a silly billy
I once made an animation where i made the main character left handed on accident. I kept that trait
Sick video dude!!
Sheva is one of my favorite lefty characters because it feels so real. I actually didn't even notice until I played Re4VR. When using the rifle I found myself doing the same quirky reloads that Sheva would. So kudos to Capcom for giving enough of a damn to include that attention to detail.
The boomerang monkey is ambidextrous, and all monkeys were left handed up until btd6
My leftie bestie was writing down something in public and someone started screaming at them in shock and surprise, apparently this sheltered "regular" person had heard of left handed people but never seen a real leftie in their life
As im old, withering away in a retirement home or something someone will chant the words “i am rad chad, The madlad and ALSO your dad” and i will die on the spot
I'm playing RE5 with a friend because Sheva is left handed and he is left handed individual. One time we saw how she reloaded the rifle and we were at awe.
On a more serious note (1:12) my grandpa was born lefthanded and forced to use his right hand growing up, so today he is righthanded. Glad that stuff is over now where I live.
They tried to do this with my mom, but they just couldn't get the left out of her 😆
They beat the left handedness out of my mom
ultrakill has a left handed option
me happy
In the inazuma eleven series (an anime football rpg on ds/3ds) the first 4 games in the series had all the action buttons on the right side of the touchscreen. But in the fifth game they added the option to move the actions buttons to the left side of the bottom screen, which I, a lefty, enjoyed very much, because this meant that by using the action buttons i wouldnt cover the bottom screen with my hand and obscure the real time footy action.
Been a day or two since I played it, but I strongly remember playing a Monster Hunter World and suddenly noticing how everyone is using their weapons with the left hand.
Surprised you didn't mention ULTRAKILL.
First person shooter game with a setting that not only swaps the weapon you're holding to your left arm, it even mirrors the entire UI to compensate. There's even an option for wielding down the middle, which changes most of the weapon graphics to compensate.
Another thing I have been noticing is eyes. Or, specifically, when a character has one eye. I take a notice every time I see such a character (because I myself have one disabled eye), and about 8 times out of 10 the missing eye is the left one.
However, I think that is not without a reason. In my theory, it has to do with people being mostly right handed. Since people historically would cut from the right side more, the left eye is more often in the way of a weapon than the right eye. Thus, people lose their left eye more often
Also, I'm kinda used to everything being right-handed at this point. I can use WASD with the mouse in my right hand just fine. Same with controllers and stuff. But that is specifically gaming-related - stuff like scissors I can use, but it is annoying to not see the actual line you're cutting.
But I also just kinda don't think too much about it at this point. I'm used to this. And mostly it is just minor things that are slightly annoying.
The worst part is that despite being left handed, my handwriting isn't much better with the left than with the right hand, lmao.
That being sad, that is just my experience - there are probably left handed people out there who have bigger problems than I have.
Same here, with how used to certain things being right handed I've gotten it might even be more accurate to call me mixed handed rather than left handed. Some actions I prefer using my left hand and largely it's what's more natural to me but I'm accustomed to using my right hand for other things.
In fact, I remember when I used to play Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort I'd have to custom set some of the handedness preferences on my mii to be different depending on the sport, like bowling with my right hand but batting with my left.
@@Spooky_Magooky I feel that so much, holy hell.
As a lefty, i find myself studying the animations of various characters to check if any of them are left handed or not.
Also left-handed villains almost don't count for me anymore after realizing how surprisingly prevelant it is for an entire squad of right handed people to go up against a villain, who just so happens to be the only left handed person in the cast.
Makes me wish there was a piece of media where it's the complete opposite, where everyone is left-handed EXEPT the main villain.
I feel weird in this regard because even though I'm left handed and I do almost everything with my left hand, I hold two handed guns specifically with my right hand on the trigger, because to me aiming takes so much of my concentration that I have to use my left hand for it, not to mention that, to me, having the left hand on the barrel makes it feel like the leading hand, kinda how it is with swords. I also never minded using the Wii remote and Nunchuck as well as the keyboard in the way that rightos do.
About to watch the video, but for me I play a lot of FPS games, and there is so many titles that just don't have left eye or handed shooting. The only one is Tarkov, who does this cursed side tilt that is off canted and wrongly held.
Im left handed, and whenever i play a shooter i flip the controls from WASD to PL;'
It is incredibly cursed and rebinding everything for every game is annoying, but it lets me do a mirror flip of WASD (E is O, Lshift is Rshift and my thumb can rest on the space bar).
Its a nice work around but my number 1 pet peeve is when games dont update instructions/tutorials based on your rebinding. Makes things very confusing !
Loved the video btw
I have not thought about game characters using their left hand like myself until devil may cry 4.
I just mostly gave up as a lefty and just do the exact same controls as right handed people for PC games. All standard keyboard layouts are for righties, as well as mice. For wii games though I always used wii-mote left hand, nunchuck right, that just made sense.
Funny enough, my mind immediately went to Artorias of the Abyss from Dark Souls. He is canonically left handed but in his game fight, his left arm is shattered and fights us right handed.
Akihiko persona 3 is actually left-handed btw. Never brought up in game, but he takes a left-handed boxing stance in combat and I think he can also be seen to favor his left hand through the rest of persona 3 (haven't played reload, just fes and original)
As an engineer- most devices that are used in our workshops are right-handed oriented. That isn't a small issue- it is actually safety hazad. You have to operate those tools precisely- so you use your dominate hand, but if machine isn't ambidextrous usually you either:
-work in unnatural position
-are not protected.
Some hand tools even have safety features made specifically to protect you when you use your right hand (for eg. Some agle grinders). I heard that lefties report more accidents at workplace, and when you have contact with production environment you see why.
I played zelda skyward sword left-handed and it was barely more difficult than playing it normally
I'm left-handed
The game is just a little jank when you hold the wiimote in left and and nunchuk in right, but entirely playable
They didn't have to make link right-handed, because the game can be played perfectly well while holding the wiimote and nunchuk differently than link holds his gear
I just had to sit off-center from the tv and I would do that anyway
as a leftoid it actually hurts me to see any first person game have a the left handed object cos the right side seems more natural, so thanks video game conditioning
Watching this I remember one of my favorite games (I'm not saying WHAT game it is but it is an anime arena fighter) that one of the characters who in the show was LEFT HANDED was made right handed in the game...
for monster hunter world, for dual weapons like dual blades and sword and shield, you actually use your left hand to attack and your right hand to defend!
Nearly every single person that has seen me use a computer has been mentaly flashbanged as I swap the mouse and keyboard's positions. Also I use WASD, how do I press the space bar? With the bottom right edge of my palm. AND I LEARNED HOW TO B-HOP AND STRAFE IN SOURCE WITH A NATURAL HANDICAP.
Also 1:18
> Left handed
> Same first name
Conclusion: he is literally me
While I'm not left-handed, I'm left eye dominant. Learning how to shoot as a kid was a pain in the ass since there weren't many guns accommodating left handedness
Aika from Skies of Arcadia is left-handed. That’s neat.
If they really want to be represented, play Monster Hunter. Every weapon is mainly wielded in their left hands, and controllers are ambidextrous anyway. Boom. No longer ostracised and belittled by rightoids.
Being left handed made 3 ring binders my enemy since they would dig into my wrist while writing
Left handed people need representation smh
Into the Radius has the worst left-hand support in VR games. If you select the left-handed option it does flip your bag and watch around to fit left-handed people more easily... But they also swapped the movement stick to the right and the aiming stick to the left.
Everyone's favorite character from all the gaming: Templar from Path of Exile is indeed left handed.
Being left handed is the most difficult thing I deal with in my everyday life
As a lefty i feel kinda weird about this video since i never take it that deeply that i work more comfortably with the arm more people dont and its kinda nutty to see people rage that a fictional character is not left handed anymore but seeing that most tools are right handed yeah i can kinda see it even if i dont take it that seriously but ey a represantation video about lefties still is something and im gonna take what i have
Raphael being mentioned makes me VERY happy
Funnily enough, tf2 does have the option to be left handed, and it acutally changes where attack hitboxes come out from which is pretty neat.
Hilariously enough this has lore implications for Engineer.
As a left handed person this hurts me
i'm not left-handed but i do have a mild annoyance in gaming : being french, and by extension using azerty instead of qwerty, wasd in azerty is just uncomfortable so i always have to rebind my keys, it's worse when i can't rebind at all
luckily i've seen games implementing presets for keybinds or just reading input not by the letter that was type but by where the key is
Hello Mr. Rad Chad the Mad Lad and to some of us our dad. I just want to say that this video, the representation, and the autistic babes (although i am not a babe) are very "hey that's me" video. Cool.
What I'm saying is to stop reading my mind, i think that is an invasion of privacy.
I put my right hand on the numpad, and by golly, it seems better than wasd. Too bad im used to Left hand being the movement hand...
Anyways... WHAT ABOUT US AMBIDEXTROUS FOLK?
I had to play Half Life: Alyx as a "Leftie", while a much inferior game "Boneworks" allowed me to switch between the hands. I am mostly a Right Hand dominant person, but I absolutely feel like I need a symmetry in function when using and moving around tools. Cover on my right, means I cant use my rifle as easily on my right side. So I switch. If I hammer down a nail while theres something blocking me on the right, I switch hands. Lemme switch hands in VR or else you are turning me into a full leftoid.
Some Links, Rosalina, Peach (ambidextrous but still) and some more are all left handed
This is fun as I am a proud leftoid, but for things like ranged weapons, the hand you choose to use is based on eye dominance. So I have to uncomfortably shoot something like a gun with my right hand because my left EYE is garbage :/
I remember playing dark souls 2 and be happy because I can be left-handed punting my sword in my left and shield in my right.... until in mid-game I get that I wasn't able to do backstabs, they are only right handed... so I had to re-learn the controls to play right-handed.
this is a detail that i really love about Nero from DMC! it actually took me a while to notice
tbh i wish more fps characters were left handed because it feels more natural when i am shooting with left click
I'm left handed for some things and right for other things and in shooters I just go rage mode and don't care about the way guns go
Nero from DMC5 is left handed, he swords and guns with only the left hand despite having 2 hands
in Monster Hunter, if you use Sword and shield (THE BEST WEAPON) you use it in the sword in the left hand, i think the great sword is too, the dominate hand goes on top when you are two-handy a weapon
Love this video. People look at me so weird when i use a mouse with my left hand!
I feel like they don't exist in games because they are a giant minority irl and games try to appeal to a majority.
Whenever I play sports people always say “wrong hand buddy” and I have to explain that I’m left handed
Nameless King in Question.
As a Right handed person, i don't understand leftoids who use their left hand for the mouse. Like, even another leftoid, Redshell, uses his Right hand for a mouse
It means left handed people cannot operate at the same level as right handed people who use their dominant hand on the mouse.
We are being contained and held back from our full potential.
Bro using Leftoid instead of Lefty 💀 Rethoid
As a leftoid, I also can't understand why or how fellow lefterals use left-handed mice and keyboards. When I first started using a keyboard and mouse I had no extra trouble with it, unlike if I had to learn to write right-handed or something.
@carpet_appetite I'm the other way around. It was very difficult for me to use a mouse and keyboard at first. Mice aren't ergonomic for left hands, and having to rebind every key in each game was a huge pain.
I decided to just sucj it up and use it right handed.
What’s cool is sker ritual a game I play that’s a round based zombies game made by a handful of like 5 indie devs has a feature where you can switch to left handed and the fun and arm will spear on the left side. It was a lil jarring for me but it honestly was cool to see.
Artorias from ds1 was left handed
Wasn't that because his left arm was broken? Although maybe his left hand leaded on his great sword idk
@@MaVerik1727 It’s been a debate in the Dark Souls community since Fromsoft and Miyazaky never 100% confirmed it, but nor have they disproven it (at least until now). But eh, I always through it made him cooler and unique, and it’s weird that these debates and theories would exist without a reason to it
@@MaVerik1727
He IS left handed and his left arm IS broken.
Thats why he was forced to use his right hand instead.
It isn't explicitly confirmed, but Dark Souls very rarely explicitly confirms anything at all, so that doesn't say much.
It’s a real struggle, when I have to spam the left click button I literally have to take my hand off the control stick or WASD keys to do it, I can’t speedrun some games because of it, also if you want to talk about representation of lefties in don’t starve even though characters facing left hold their weapons and item in their right hand in every other orientation every character is left handed
On many mnk games you can change your controls manually. Yes it takes time but there are so many orientations that you can use,devs just can't include all of them, num pad, IJKL, or any other combination on the right side of the keyboard.
As someone with no hands I’m offended by this video
As a leftie im so honored to finally be spoken about thank you Rad Chad the mad lad and for some of us our dad
I'm left handed and the major challenge I face is with QTEs or certain inputs that require quick, rapid fire button mashing. I have figured out a few ways to deal with this, but they aren't universal
As a left handed guy, I originally played with arrows on the keybord. And then, at some point... I justswitched. Don't remember exactly how it happened, but, most likely, it's because I tried S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat on my elder brother's notebook. Been a game rightee ever since (excep sword games, I switch the sword to the left in those).
And you know what? I have come to the point where I'm in fact ambidextrous in life. Not because I was forced to, but because "why not try?"
It wasn't too hard for me to adapt to standard controllers or KBM setup, but man I wish scissors had more options.
As an Lefty, I never had a problem with games because I've played them so long with everything on the right that it's weird flipped
Lofi girl is left handed
minecrafts biggest flex is that they give you the option to be lefthanded