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>Also, she is reduced to a shallow sex icon because Nintendo doesn't do much with her.
No, because that's exactly what they wanted you dipshit. Imamura spells it out for you several times, especially in his art.
>Not because there is nothing that could be done with her.
No it's because they didn't want her doing anything. They didn't want Rare to have a Zelda IP mascot so they made her a placeholder prop instead. This is quite literally one of their only things they actually forced them to do. They were going to just scrap her because even they knew that was a stupid idea and they made fucking Berri.