![]() Tomodachi Life is one of the 3DS' best-selling games ever, having sold 1.85 million units to date. The issue is particularly pressing, campaign creator Tye Marini says in the video below, because married characters have access to exclusive features like bigger houses and the ability to have a child. Nintendo's statement comes after a fan started a social media campaign last month calling on Nintendo to allow same-sex relationship options in the game. ![]() We hope that all of our fans will see that Tomodachi Life was intended to be a whimsical and quirky game, and that we were absolutely not trying to provide social commentary." "The relationship options in the game represent a playful alternate world rather than a real-life simulation. ![]() "Nintendo never intended to make any form of social commentary with the launch of Tomodachi Life," a Nintendo of America representative told the Associated Press. In its blog, XSEED acknowledges the many years of player frustration by saying, “This has been a very long time coming in the STORY OF SEASONS series, and the producer has been supportive of our decision from very early in development.Mario and Zelda creator Nintendo has issued a statement that explains why the company does not allow same-sex relationships in its popular 3DS game Tomodachi Life, which is coming to North America in June. No longer will we have to start over, jump through hoops, ignore pronouns, and creatively rewrite the game’s dialogue in our own minds in order to experience a love story with whichever eligible guy or gal steals our hearts. It’s encouraging to see these changes in such a wholesome and beloved series, even if they are limited to a localization. As a game, it’s going to be so much more volume, two or three times more. “It’s not like we’re not thinking about We know that it has to be there sometime in the future… If we have to allow same-sex, we have to put more characters who are the same gender. The decision to ditch the Best Friends system and simply refer to all unions as marriage is a great step forward for the series, especially given that Yoshifumi Hashimoto, producer of multiple Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Rune Factory games, seemed to completely miss the point of what players were asking for during a 2016 interview with Polygon, where he said: It was a nice workaround, but many found it lacking, as both the game and other characters would still use the pronouns associated with the original choice, rather than changing them to match the character’s appearance. Rune Factory 4, after a certain point in the game, players could change their character’s avatar to either the male or female character. In Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, players were able to change their clothing and hair at will between male and female options, effectively allowing them to cross-dress. While the Best Friends system did not make another appearance in subsequent Story of Seasons or Rune Factory games, the developers have at least been aware enough of fans’ desire to create loopholes and work-arounds. In this version, players could take on the role of a female farmer and either marry one of the male bachelors, or become “Best Friends” with one of the bachelorettes. The Best Friends system was first introduced in Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town, a 2003 version of Friends of Mineral Town, which was not released in America until 2005. ![]() This is a departure from the the Japanese version, in which players cannot see the heart meters of marriage candidates of the same sex until after you have started dating a character of the same sex. The good news doesn’t stop there, as the English release will also display the affinity of all bachelors and bachelorettes at the start of the game, regardless of the gender of your farmer. According to the development blog, in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, “this will just be called “marriage,” and the relationship between same-sex couples will be given identical treatment to opposite-sex couples.” This feature is unique to the English release the Japanese version, which released in October of last year, still refers to the ceremony which bonds two characters of the same sex in a life-long union as a “Best Friends” ceremony. For the first time in the series’ long history, players will be able to marry any eligible bachelor or bachelorette, regardless of the gender of their farmer. Earlier this month, XSEED Games published its first localization blog for Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral town, the Switch remake of the beloved Harvest Moon classic, and it contains some delightful information.
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To figure out how her story is different. So, let’s step back for a minute and look at where Korra came from. If it had been Korra knocking over that cabbage cart, people would have been baying for blood. Which means the audience is cued to dislike Korra, to see her as a trope rather than to see her, to not give her origin story a single moment of the consideration it has given Aang’s. ![]() And it is most certainly predisposed to disliking a teenage girl who isn’t demure, polite, and deferential. The thing is? The audience is predisposed to dislike teenage girls. Being sent out into the world to begin her mission doesn’t change any of that. We see her as a child only once, at the very beginning of the first episode of TLOK, and then we meet her again as a teenage girl. Korra starts with two strikes against her. It’s the story of a human learning to be the Avatar and we love him for that. That’s all a very long way of saying that Aang’s story is one of a human accepting his destiny and its challenges. Aang deals with some extremely heavy stuff but he does so amidst opportunities to go penguin sledding and explore new places, and in the end, after a lot of work, his enemy becomes one of his best friends. His primary antagonist is only a few years older than him. When he’s unfrozen, the first people he encounters are other tweens who immediately take up his cause. Yes, the social dynamic changed when he was identified as the Avatar, but he remained inside that community and he had a teacher who made certain he was allowed time to be a kid, time to be human. He had, to the point where he left the monastery, been raised by a wholeass tribe that included both adults and children of all ages. ![]() When Katara and Sokka find Aang, he is literally frozen in childhood. Here is why I am calling bullshit: you can’t compare Aang and Korra because while they share the single and singular characteristic of being the Avatar, they are otherwise two different people living two entirely different lives and two entirely different truths. Here is where I call bullshit on that interpretation. Yes, Aang sometimes runs away from his responsibilities but he’s like, 12 and he didn’t really have proper teachers and he always gets there in the end whereas Korra, who has been properly trained, rushes in and gets people hurt and makes all the mistakes and she should know better. Aang puts others first while Korra puts her position as Avatar first. People slap TLOK and its titular Avatar down for all sorts of reasons, the main one being that while Aang is altruistic and adorable and kind, Korra is arrogant and rude and unlikeable. ![]() We will serve our clients with more varieties in ice cream. Plans to further modernise plant in Lahore and to bring into operation another in Islamabad with investment of Rs 225 million would expand our business further. Our sale is over 25 million liters per year. Presently turn over in ice cream business is around Rs 1.8 billion. Soon there would be low-sugar, low-fat and low-calorie ice cream available to them. Such products are being planned at Wall's. Siddiqui says Wall's realising that people are becoming weight conscious and worried about their waistline like low calorie and low sugar products. There is no waste paper, no cottage industry product no ordinary colour and no impure water finds place in the Unilever ice cream factory. ![]() All Wall's products are packed in good quality packaging material. Wall's is taking the lead to show the road to its consumers. Element of health and hygiene introduced by Wall's has now begun to change attitude toward ice cream and people think that instead of going for traditional food, ice cream can be used as its substitute for energy and vitality. Jamal Mustafa Siddiqui, Ice Cream Director, Unilever Pakistan Limited, is of the opinion that ice cream consumption will increase with the passage of time. Though in Pakistan per capita consumption of ice cream is the lowest in the world, 0.4-liter per person per annum, as compared to Scandinavian countries, USA and Europe 21-26 liters per person per year, but the new trend in its consumption is on the increase. The price range is within the reach of all those who are even within the low-income group but want to enjoy this nutritious food. ![]() Wall's is on the market with more than twenty flavours and within the price range Rs 5 to Rs 200 - Rocket Cola to King Kulfa family pack. They do not discourage questions about their product and explain 'why or wither' in such detail as one would wish to go into. The ice-cream team of the Unilever Pakistan Limited, selling Wall's, follows the same philosophy but with a difference. Thornton Wilder, US novelist and playwright in his writing 'The Skin of our teeth' (1942) says: "My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice- cream while it's on your plate, - that's my philosophy." However, the American writers, poets and philosophers have expressed their best feelings about it and have used it to say such things that relates to cultured references. ![]() English aristocracy has given ice cream a special place in the art of hospitality followed by the elites of France and Italy who have also contributed greatly toward making innovation in developing different flavours and feel of this typical whole food. Beginning from the simplest and the cheapest that is frozen sweetened milk with ice flakes and crystals to the most expensive and delicious ice cream prepared for the royals in the Buckingham palace. This product has a long history and as many recipes as one can innovate for the kind of ice cream one likes. It has pleasant effect on all moods and on all temperaments varying from hypersensitive to soft and obsequious. For the grown ups it is evoking memory of the childhood, for adults it is time to romance with the in thing and silly thoughts and for the children it is the flavoring of love and affections on the physical bondage between him and his parents. Ice cream has several connotations for people in different age groups. |
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