LogFAQs > #914361553

Whoo, finally all caught up again!

And it turned into the usual angry ranting nonsense. Seriously, SJWs making "controversies" out of nothing isn't worth it. (Though honestly I'm surprised it took them this long to object to "Baby It's Cold Outside", which has always been Date Rape: The Christmas Carol. Don't @ me.)

So instead, let's discuss the whole Shantae kerfuffle! I honestly didn't realize that Shantae was still supposed to be considered "obscure". Remember that hypothetical contest we were talking about where only characters who couldn't have possibly made the first Contest because they didn't exist yet are eligible? Yeah, she wouldn't be eligible (barely; her debut game came out in June of 2002). If not for handhelds getting looked down upon I would've expected her to have that same Bomberman/Crash/Spyro type of "strength". Hell, even through the beginning of that write-up I didn't expect Shantae to get trashed; breaking 25% on Yoshi when you're a third-party platformer character that's largely been exclusive to Nintendo platforms (first game still is a GBC exclusive; later games eventually got ported to PS4 and iOS but only the most recent game debuted as multiplatform) is, I think, a good performance.

No one knows who or what a Shantae even is, and we're supposed to believe she could beat Noctis, Dragonborn, Aya Brea, Quiet, Gordon Freeman, or John Marston in a 1v1 contest match?

I'll give you Aya and Gordon. Maybe Dragonborn. But in your own words, no one knows who or what a John Marston is. And Noctis and Quiet? I'd take Shantae against Master Hand and Aqua!
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Wait, I really left BKSheikah in my sig all the way until Advokaiser dethroned him as reigning Guru champion? I need to come here more often.