I think they handled Peach as tactfully as they could in the current year, but it really wasn't great, and she and Luigi should have swapped roles, no question.
You see this all over the place, though. Attraction to and reliance on a guy is no longer allowed to be a motivator for major female characters anymore. Amy doesn't have any personality anymore in recent games because they've completely removed her crush on Sonic. She's just there because we gotta have the girl-appeal character. We don't get Sonic being flustered and off his game, having to put up with her trying to tie him down. We don't get Amy pushing herself to keep up with and impress him. She's just the generic girl hero who tags along because reasons.
I'd be more upset about the Amy situation if the same didn't apply to basically every character in Sonic. All of them have been stripped down to generic cliches or pre-development levels. Tails is somehow more of a crybaby coward than before, Knuckles gets stupider by the day, Shadow becomes more shallow each game, etc.
I think they handled Peach as tactfully as they could in the current year, but it really wasn't great, and she and Luigi should have swapped roles, no question.
You see this all over the place, though. Attraction to and reliance on a guy is no longer allowed to be a motivator for major female characters anymore. Amy doesn't have any personality anymore in recent games because they've completely removed her crush on Sonic. She's just there because we gotta have the girl-appeal character. We don't get Sonic being flustered and off his game, having to put up with her trying to tie him down. We don't get Amy pushing herself to keep up with and impress him. She's just the generic girl hero who tags along because reasons.
I'd be more upset about the Amy situation if the same didn't apply to basically every character in Sonic. All of them have been stripped down to generic cliches or pre-development levels. Tails is somehow more of a crybaby coward than before, Knuckles gets stupider by the day, Shadow becomes more shallow each game, etc.