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Gerudo Town and its diversity in age, body type, and skin is great (BOTW SPOILERS)
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Common Knowledge
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I find it funny and somewhat disturbing that there's a Rito in Gerudo Town who desperately wants to buy cooked poultry.
Lord_Byron28
Member
Hang around the Oasis and talk to people there. They will point you in the right direction.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Hawks, eagles, and condor would look at chicken as food too you know.
Do you also have a problem with the Zoras eating fishes?
I love how grounded it feels, other than the class room of 'how to interact with men' there really isn't anything that makes it feel different to a mixed gender town. I love hanging out at the bar.
Does anyone know if you can get in the town with any means other than cross-dressing?
Gotta fight that matriarchy!
Does anyone know if you can get in the town with any means other than cross-dressing?
The leader of the soldiers offers you a position but I couldn't seem to unlock it
Chet Rippo
Member
Don't forget the seal puns!
Just head forward away from the entrance of the town. You can see it easily from from on top of Gerudo Valley, if you've found any shrines or the tower there.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
They're fucking expensive man.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Tell them to stop messing with the mipha statue
Yeah, the Goron "Town" is pretty sparse , but it really feels more like a diggin site then a full fledged settlement, which fits the motiff given how the other Gorons are pretty much digging all day. Most of the other NPCs are located on the Northern Mining Site and Lower Mining Site regions.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Even the Zora town was diverse. Red, green, black, all kinds of Zora. They even had Hammerhead Shark Zora!
Same for the Ritos. Their leader was a rotund owl, and they had all sorts of different colored feathers, body types, and hairstyles.
Gorons are all big fat sumo dudes though. But even they had varying skin colors.
Same for the Ritos. Their leader was a rotund owl, and they had all sorts of different colored feathers, body types, and hairstyles.
Gorons are all big fat sumo dudes though. But even they had varying skin colors.
pretty done
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SPOILER: Today is Friday
Who buys arrows in this game?
I usually drop about 3K rupees on them whenever I'm in town.
Fuck Bro. Are you kidding me?! Can we get a mod in here.
OrbitalBeard
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MisterGrey3000
Member
Nope.
You've gotta eat another member of your own species to be a cannibal.
"Bird" is a taxonomic class just like "mammal".
Calling the Rito lady a cannibal because she wants poultry is like saying a human lady (mammal) is a cannibal because she wants some beef (cow = mammal)
I'm honestly surprised that a lot of people don't seem to comprehend this idea.
It's like the Pluto and Goofy thing...nobody seems to think that maybe Pluto is to Goofy what chimps are to humans, totally seperate species that belong to the same larger group.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
These are the best the Gerudo have been represented in a Zelda game. The fact they're not mere bad guys following Ganon like in OOT or that no they're fucking extinct like in the other games goes a long way towards fleshing them out.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
They were neutral/good in FSA too.
But they haven't been in very many games... I was glad to see them again. Kind of upset they seem to have dropped the "male Gerudo every 100 years" thing. He didn't even have to be a champion or even in the town, I would have just liked to see one that wasn't an ambitious evil overlord like Ganondorf.
She says "we Hylian vaai need to stick together, hehehe" in German, so she's just jokingly telling him she won't give away his disguise.
True, but I don't think he was actually meant to come off as racist. I just think they didn't think it through.
NumberThree
Member
Gerudo Town is definitely my favourite in the game.
Ah so I mixed it up. Ok then.
UncleSporky
Member
My assumption is that there can only be one Gerudo male around at any one time, and Ganondorf takes up that spot now forever. If he could somehow be defeated permanently, a new male Gerudo could be born.
victreeb3l
Member
They need that protein. I wish I could give them some chicken.
After seeing how ganon died turned out I could see them putting a male gerudo to death.
Either way it would have been interesting to see the dynamic a male gerudo could have brought to this game and it feels like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Ganondorf was brought up by 2 literal witches. How did they expect him to turn out?
Also, Ganondorf did nothing wrong:
Four Swords Adventures featured a new Gerudo king.
I swear I saw a mama, papa and child goron sleep at night in goron city in their house...
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It's funny, I went to Rito Village after Gerudo, and I thought Rito was cooler at first, at least aesthetically... but then I realized how much less there was to do versus Gerudo. Ah well
I get ya.
I get ya.
Humans don't eat primates though.... well, some, but that's a tiny minority.Nope.
You've gotta eat another member of your own species to be a cannibal.
"Bird" is a taxonomic class just like "mammal".
Calling the Rito lady a cannibal because she wants poultry is like saying a human lady (mammal) is a cannibal because she wants some beef (cow = mammal)
I'm honestly surprised that a lot of people don't seem to comprehend this idea.
It's like the Pluto and Goofy thing...nobody seems to think that maybe Pluto is to Goofy what chimps are to humans, totally seperate species that belong to the same larger group.
This rebuttal makes no sense, it's a pure false equivalence. Toxanomically birds are a class whilst primates are an order. Different species of birds can be just as far removed from one another as humans are from cows.
And anyway, weird human hang ups aside, it's only canabilism if they're of the same species. Nothing wrong with birds eating other birds or primates eating other primates. It's a perfectly natural thing.
Finished the Gerudo divine quest arc today, and yeah the town is pretty great. Great atmosphere, interesting NPC's (I did notice all the diversity), fantastic present day and past champion characters that leaves me wanting more.
Still have a few things to do in town, but I need to take a break.
Still have a few things to do in town, but I need to take a break.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I love this
It's Zelda's smile that really makes it work.
ZAMtendo
Obliterating everything that's not your friend
I did already know it's in the game, but I'm looking out for other people here. Definitely a spoiler for me, I like to be surprised even if it's a small thing like a name.
I love how the series has evolved and expanded the culture of these factions of people and species.
Gerudo is definitely a favorite, as is Zora. But I also like finally seeing more than one Shiekah tribes member outside of Impa or whoever. I can finally see a whole town of them and their culture, as well as their defectors who rejected their ways and loyalties.
But back on Gerudo, they've had the largest change to their culture. I do like how they were a simple band of thieves but over the millenniums developed to be more than that and adopted new ways of life and developed their culture while also remaining traditional in their ways.
BotW really push that narrative that it's been thousands of years. Culture can change so fast in 100 years, 10,000 or more had empires crumble and fall and cultures die or rebuilt. You can also tell there was more to the Gerudo people but much of that knowledge is lost to the sands of time. I do wonder how far in the future this game really is.
Gerudo is definitely a favorite, as is Zora. But I also like finally seeing more than one Shiekah tribes member outside of Impa or whoever. I can finally see a whole town of them and their culture, as well as their defectors who rejected their ways and loyalties.
But back on Gerudo, they've had the largest change to their culture. I do like how they were a simple band of thieves but over the millenniums developed to be more than that and adopted new ways of life and developed their culture while also remaining traditional in their ways.
BotW really push that narrative that it's been thousands of years. Culture can change so fast in 100 years, 10,000 or more had empires crumble and fall and cultures die or rebuilt. You can also tell there was more to the Gerudo people but much of that knowledge is lost to the sands of time. I do wonder how far in the future this game really is.
Majukun
Member
don't think you can, BUT
after I already entered I noticed that the back of the throne room is open.. so i wonder if you can sneak up there and meet directly reiju without cross-dressing
The 100 years thing is probably just a myth they've developed to downplay the fact that they're just genetically predisposed to birthing females, anyway. It's just so rare that it may as well be every 100 years.
Where's the erasure? Seems like nobody's actually trans in BOTW, there's just a lot of cross dressing.
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I have no idea whats going on in this picture.
edit: I guess I should be clear that when I said that I legitimately didn't recognize any sort of erasure because I'm generally ignorant to what it encompasses for trans folks. I wasn't aware of any characters that actually were trans and were written out.
Uhhh, that is kind of a valid complaint of Link? I guess you could argue he is a fair skinned Japanese male? I guess it doesn't really matter either way, but I do agree with the other poster that the Gerudo don't need to be presented as some distinct entity on par with fish bird and rock people.
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