How was the FF7 cross dressing sidequest seen in the 90s? It strikes me as a pretty radical and charged moment for a childrens game, and subversive. I imagine how much it would mess with all the people playing it in 1997 and get a hint of excitement. At the same time I could just be applying hindsight to something that is fairly innocuous.
>>12929631it was seen as a comical early game "bonding with aerith" segment and anyone reading deeper into it is retarded and tiktok brained
In japan, nobody gave a shit because cross dressing is played up for both comedy and mild titillation all the time. In the west, it wasn't much until fairly recently.
>>12929635Wow my brain fell out of my ass there. That was meant to say;In the west, it was much the same until fairly recently.
just thought it was silly and moved on
>>12929631It made me realize I'm in fact a womanThanks FF7 for making me crack out of me egg
I felt a tingle up the spine during those scenes ngl.
It was a joke.It was comic relief.It was meant to be some levity in this very realistic pimp/rapist scenario.If you got anything out of it but a chuckle, you have media illiteracy.
It was just a funny joke. No one that was not mentally ill took it as anything other than humorous and the player was laughing at the Don for falling for it.
>>12929683>>12929750A lot of times a joke means more to someone later on when they realize it was their first exposure to a new idea.
>>12929805Only if they are nuts to begin with. Everybody else is just having a laugh.
>>12929631Thank god FF VII was released overseas. Imagine if trannylators were the first to bring the game to an English-speaking audience. They would’ve had Cloud lament about being a woman trapped in a man’s body, and Don Corneo would’ve been accused of toxic masculinity.
>>12929631As others have said, it was a silly bit of comic relief. You got the best dress so you could have the extra scene and because gamers always want to get the best whatever. It was treated exactly like a joke until pretty recently
>>12929631This and the blood made Pat Robertson tell Americans buy their kids an N64 and Banjo-Kazooie
>>12929631Men dressing as women used to be funny because they looked so ridiculous.
>>12929631What other retro games have egg cracking potential like this?
>>12929805Western media did the whole "funny man crossdressing" bit all the time. Even if you were 12 at the time there is no way this was your "first exposure" to that idea
>>12930304They were doing it the 1950's even, so it's not like the whole guy crossdressing for comedy thing wasn't already established by then
>>12929631>t. Zoomer who has never seen one Bugs Bunny cartoon Embarrassing. Delete.
>>12930304>>12930341The better example would be Bugs Bunny, who had been dressing as a woman and even acting like a woman (kissing men on the lips, dancing like a woman, etc) for comedic reasons since the 30s.None of those are ever presented as anything other than a gag. It's always supposed to be ridiculous when Bugs' enemy becomes utterly infatuated with what is obviously just Bugs in makeup and a dress.
>>12930662>>12930678Came here just to mention ol' Bugsy
>>12929631This part of the game was the catalyst for why all these dudes wanna play dress up and pee in women's bathrooms.
>>12930684That sounds logical but the OOT kids trooned out at a much, much, higher rate
>>12930678>>12930681The same bugs bunny cross dressing shit gets plenty of unironic furries and fags that find it hot and want to fuck him
>>12930341FF7 came out not long after mrs doubtfire which was a huge surprise hit film. Same as nutty professor (1996) where eddy murphys portrayal of women was his comeback movie. Got him a golden globe nomination.
>>12929631>How was the FF7 cross dressing sidequest seen in the 90s?I can tell you that in most Soviet countries it was probably seen as a comedy because "crossdressing man somehow looks attractive enough for other men to fall for him" story is basically Charley's Aunt and that play was adapted into Soviet film in 1975 and became a cult classic.
>>12929631People weren't as fucking gay and ironypoisoned back then so it was funny, everyone had a laugh and then mostly forgottenNow you degenerates hyperfixate on it, actual gay retards
