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This Week in Games -The New Testament

Non-binary is basically someone who says they identify as a man one day and a female the next.

I assumed the localization used male pronouns because he's still a man, just one that went through horrific experiments and body modifications. Testament was a man who got abducted by the Conclave and converted into a bioweapon and then enslaved.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to claim that as representative of their identity.

As far as Testament goes, I know that they've been described as intersex (両性 or 両性具有) in interviews and books long before this, and also something about "transcending their humanity," but is this the first time they've been officially described as agender (無性別) as well?

Gears have technically been an "It" since Day 0 since they're technically combinations of magic and science, with very few and rare exceptions in the early games.spoiler[ Sol being the big one.] They only really started to experiment with latter titles. Testament is more of a course correction since early GG was rather infamous for its kerfuffles translation wise but to quote someone I saw post it on another site, it definitely feels like a SF Poison situation given the Japanese trailer where Testament (voiced by Yu Kobayashi!) explicitly uses "watashi", which is commonly used with regards to feminine and female characters.

Lastly, while they didn't get mentioned, we also got Team Garou last week and they have been a lot of fun!

"Testament is Testament" is similar to how characters like Hideyoshi, Najimi, Crona, and other ambiguous gender characters so basically do whatever you want. Obviously the developers are still being coy rather than directly confirming anything so people shouldn't be taking this too seriously.

The main issue these days is words and terms relating to sex and gender are getting a lot more loose, vague, and politically charged. Testament might very well be "non-binary' technically depending on whatever conditions that umbrella term encompasses since it appears to be quite a lot these days ranging from gender-nonconforming tomboys to intersex people What we can safely say is that Testament is not intersex or a hermaphrodite since those are medical terms for birth defects and we know Testament was not born the way he/it/whatever is now. Nobody knows anything until a new storymode for the character comes out and says anything on the matter, if at all.

I miss the days when "they/them" used to be a normal term to talk about someone when you don't know if they're a man or woman, or a group of people. Now it's apparently political and if you use it you're confirming a specific gender identity. No one cared about calling characters like Hideyoshi or Crona an 'it' or a 'them'. Nobody also cared if you called them a guy or a girl either. People were less uptight back in those days and weren't at each others throats over things like this.

Amazing trailer, and with Boss Challenge being a "mode," it seems like there's a good chance we will be getting more in the future which would be awesome!

TranceLimit174 wrote:

Amazing trailer, and with Boss Challenge being a "mode," it seems like there's a good chance we will be getting more in the future which would be awesome!

I do hope that's the case, too. I even went back & double-checked Verse's special win quotes from KOF XIV, to see who else was likely revived but not been confirmed yet, & aside from Orochi (who was instantly resealed in Team Yagami's ending in XIV) there's still KOF 2001's Igniz, KOF '99's Krizalid, & Samurai Shodown II's Mizuki Rashojin to be accounted for, while Leona's father Gaidel will likely be held off until the next game, as indicated in Team Ikari's ending in XV.

I would be awesome if Igniz, Krizalid, & Mizuki were added in later on as other bonus bosses to fight.

Also, I'm not sure I understand what you're looking for a source for tbh- just to confirm, I'm pretty sure the comment about GG never having non-conforming characters before is intended to be read as oozing sarcasm.

Meanwhile, bad news, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is fourth-lowest launch[/url] for a Final Fantasy spin-off in Japan