/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10388264
Blaze Fielding from Streets of Rage was also close to becoming a tranny due that same issue.

>>7119354
That's true. Little after Final Fight was released, many Japanese companies had the belief they would get in trouble if they released a game in which you could punch a woman. I'm sure many Japanese magazines mentioned this controversy with Poison.

>>7086486
Capcom niggas turned her into a "transvestite" in the hope that Western localizers wouldn't censor her (the belief Westerners didn't like seeing women being hit in games was quite widespread among Japanese developers back then, picrelated). Of course, it didn't work.

"When Final Fight was ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, an American playtester working for Capcom reviewed the content during the localization process with one of the Japanese designers and objected to the protagonist hitting women. While Akira Yasuda pointed out that the characters had already been made into trans women, believing this to be an acceptable compromise, Poison and Roxy were replaced with regular male punks named "Billy" and "Sid" in the English localization despite his objections."

Honestly, I don't care about this "retcon", she's still a regular woman in my book.