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1: No, your assumptions are just that: assumptions. Literally nothing you have given is actual evidence towards the manual AND the official guide getting it wrong, and the burden of proof is on you, not me. Heck, you haven’t even proven that Ricky’s gender was left unknown in the original instruction manual.
2: Over every single thing, no, but that’s different from them having lists of translation-related questions and tacking on minor ones like “what is Ricky’s gender”, which does happen in localization. No one implied that they phone called up NoJ just to ask them that.
3: Unless contradicted later, instruction manuals are always canon, as they are official supplementary guides for the game in question. Who specifically writes them is irrelevant, as they are given official permission to write said information.
4: I literally named all the examples in the link I showed you. Just because you think I didn’t know of those examples before giving you a link (as it was much more expedient way of answering your question), doesn’t mean I actually didn’t.
5: My point is that your claim that a Nintendo game did it accurately before means that this one also did it accurately; you pointing out that Capcom (and not Nintendo) created the character makes your claim even weaker, so thanks.
I’m partially responsible for this. I apologize.
So, you’re assuming that the original instruction booklet didn’t specify gender, AND that the NoA localizers made his gender up (when they could have easily just asked NoJ if the original manual didn’t specify), AND that the NP writers also got their information from the instruction book only? That’s a ton of assumptions with nothing backing them other than “it’s happened in other games”.
It’s not even actually relevant, as the English instruction manual stating it means that regardless of whether the original states it or not, until it’s contradicted in a future English Zelda game or official source of information, it’s still canon to the English version of the franchise.
As for male kangaroos with pouches, this page names several, as well as other examples of authors mistaking or ignoring gender specific features in animals:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimalGenderBender
Also, Kangaskhan was created by Game Freak, not Nintendo.
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Ricky is referred to as male in the English-language game manuals, which can be hand-waved both as the reason for the English Nintendo Power’s portrayal of the character as male, and as a translation issue; the Japanese language frequently either uses gender-neutral pronouns, or excludes them from sentences completely. As another consequence of this, the horse Agro from Shadow of the Colossus is canonically female but referred to as “he” in the English game’s tutorial hints because the Japanese game gave no gender at all.
As for other male fictional kangaroos with pouches, can you name one? The only rideable male kangaroos I can remember are the critters from Bomberman, but you ride on their backs.
Nintendo has also otherwise recognized that only female kangaroos have pouches - Kangaskhan are female-only.
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I’m not talking about Prima; I’m talking about the official guide by Nintendo Power. They were of much higher quality than Prima and didn’t make mistakes of laziness like that back then, and had a direct information line to Nintendo of America for the purpose of said guides. Even if that doesn’t convice you, both instruction manuals for Oracle of Ages and Seasons also state that Ricky is a male.
Male kangaroos having pouches is quite common in fiction, so that doesn’t really mean anything.
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I know that; I was just stating that I owned and liked the game.
He said the prima guide for it was bad, not the game itself
Hey, I own Tales of Zestiria :U Not a bad game.
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Nintendo doesn’t make their official strategy guides; they’re licensed out to Prima.
And Prima is well-known for varying wildly between actually decent proper guides, and completely awful guides laden with misprints, mixed-up information, and in some cases, consistently giving the wrong solutions to parts of the game.
Examples of really bad Prima guides:
The point is, Prima most likely presumed Ricky was male due to the variably masculine personae of the other two animals and the masculine connotations of all 3 names, with the boxing gloves as a less important factor.
But the ‘roo still has a pouch and that’s still a female-only feature, so…
Ricky wqs stated to be @Lucky Shot
The official OoA/S strategy guide by Nintendo called Ricky a guy.
Hmmm, true. I keep forgetting about that part.
Ricky’s gender isn’t bluntly stated IIRC, and she has a pouch, which only female kangaroos have…
Oh. I never picked up on that.
”Not right now ya don’t.“
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Ricky’s a dude in Oracle of Ages XD
And I think it was just a cave or something. Been a while since I played the game.
We’re CLEARLY not looking at the same pictures.
@Dirty Bit
I’m glad that reference wasn’t for nothing. Couldn’t remember which temple you needed her to reach but meh. The spirit of it was there.
Ha
I thought of Oracle of Ages, myself XD
Lol! And I did not think of that. XD Nice shot!
I am certain of she enjoys when books rub her boobs, while she’s jumping.