What does that do to diminish their statement? You asked for characters that were for everyone, not when they were made.
Again, what does that do to eliminate the relevance of the statement?
Well I was looking for examples that were a little more future facing. If the one example we have going forward of a female protagonist that doesn't require some sort of reliance on wardrobe is Faith in Mirror's Edge 2, we have a problem.
But like I said, yeah, NOLF3, fund it instead of that terrible spin off.
Cultural differences and an oversight of how thier actions translated to the rest of the world, same crap that happened with Tomodachi Life. I'm not saying that's a good excuse, just a reason.
PFFT No dude. There are no cultural differences in Super Princess Peach, that game is 100% "Women be emotional, amirite guys": the video game. There's a lot of creepy behavior that's done in the name of cultural differences that I'll stand by, but SPP is not one of them. That game was a problem, and there's a reason why they pretty munch ditched everything from it, save for Peach's final smash in Brawl, which is useless. I don't even know of any cultural differences in Tomodachi Life that were controversial outside of the gay marriage bug.
The gameplay's solid and the world's are beautifully designed with fun characters, why does it matter what skin is shown or some little risque (heh) dialogue?
Again, in a vacuum, just like bayonetta, it doesn't matter, those games are good. It starts to matter when you stack up all these games that do have female protagonist with sexualized traits that have to be either explained away or apologized for. Shantae and MSF are great games, but i'm not going to sit there and pretend like half of the game isn't eye candy, and neither should you. Which brings me to the real point of this whole thing...
Ask Sony and Naughty Dog, they're the one's that make that decision.
There's the rub. Because if you do ask Sony or Naughty Dog, or EA or Activision or Microsoft, they'll tell you that what you want "THIS GAME!" and they have just the thing for you, but THAT GAME isn't starring a woman. If you want to play as a woman, you've got Bayonetta! Or Lollipop Chainsaw! Or Miku Hatsune, or Shantae, or MSF, etc etc etc.
If you want to play as a woman who is simply good at her job and managing the situation that she is in, you are shit out of luck. Unless you want to wait for 2015 when Tomb Raider 2 comes out or 2016 or possibly later when Mirror's Edge comes out, you will have to play these games that really aren't made for you. The best you can do until this is play these games that happen to have strong females helping you out on your quest, and who knows, maybe you'll play as a woman. But they aren't the focus. They aren't supposed to be.
And that kind of sucks.