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7/9/2025, 2:56:38 PM
>>714965731
I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m writing at all.
What I’m saying is that you can’t entirely judge the capabilities of video game characters, or fictional characters in general, because oftentimes the rules of their world aren’t defined by realism.
Take the “tiny girl who can wield a hammer four times her size” trope a lot of JRPGs have; this is physically impossible, especially given how few times these girls are shown to have any muscle, but the reader/player/viewer doesn’t need to care about that because it’s a fictional setting with different established rules from reality. Obviously the more realistic the work, the harder this is to pull off (you wouldn’t be able to throw a character such as Samus into Ozark and have it work, for example), but that’s beside the point.
My point is that Metroid is a series with rules, technology, and designs that don’t have much regard for physical reality, so there is no reason to judge the capabilities of the characters against what we know to be true in the real world.
I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m writing at all.
What I’m saying is that you can’t entirely judge the capabilities of video game characters, or fictional characters in general, because oftentimes the rules of their world aren’t defined by realism.
Take the “tiny girl who can wield a hammer four times her size” trope a lot of JRPGs have; this is physically impossible, especially given how few times these girls are shown to have any muscle, but the reader/player/viewer doesn’t need to care about that because it’s a fictional setting with different established rules from reality. Obviously the more realistic the work, the harder this is to pull off (you wouldn’t be able to throw a character such as Samus into Ozark and have it work, for example), but that’s beside the point.
My point is that Metroid is a series with rules, technology, and designs that don’t have much regard for physical reality, so there is no reason to judge the capabilities of the characters against what we know to be true in the real world.
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