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Here at Donkey Kong World, we usually receive tens of emails every month. But one caught our attention as we went through our ebox.
Dear Sirs,
Why Candy have big boobies? What
the hell? Got to go, the bodies in the basement are starting to smell.
Love, Smakety.
Well, Smakety, there is a good reason why Candy Kong has a larger than normal anatomy (or should that be plural...). Rare has had a history of making polygonal women of the larger size.
Let's take Killer Instinct's Orchid and Maya for instance. You can't look at them and not notice that they aren't average size. But you really can't blame Rare for that; the game was targeted at 12-18 year olds, who are instinctively drawn to fighting games featuring bustious women.
Candy Kong in her 64 appearance is the most obvious attempt from Rare so far. She already has the (extremely) full figure and (very) tight clothes, but she also sticks in some suggestive meanings into her speech. "Come here, DK and I'll show you how to use your instrument."? Honestly, Rare, could you possibly be less subtle? And in an E rated game? And if you're still looking for big women in games targeted towards kids, check out the ending to Banjo-Kazooie, or the Banana Fairys and the Mermaid in DK64.
Plus in, Banjo-Kazooie, if you lose the game and watch the Game Over sequence, you can watch Gruntilda the witch transform into a size DD. Rare is driving thousands of young ugly witches to build beauty sucking machines to steal the beauty of others in order to look like the new Gruntilda.
But, not all the female characters Rare has created have perfect bodies. Tiny and Dixie Kong are nowhere near as, er, big as Candy, and they are strong individual characters and can obviously put up a fight. But then again, they're just kids, they haven't fully... er... developed yet.
But why does Rare make most of their female characters rather large? Simple. The men at Rare spend all of their time programming games, leaving little or no time for social life (read: going on dates and getting some). So, obviously, the want for female companionship has spilled over into the games and reality has blurred into fantasy, therefore the enhanced anatomy on the women characters.
So, can we blame Rare for these sexist views of women? Sure. But let's face it, they come from a different country, where things aren't as P.R. as it is here. Their culture is much more 'lax than ours, and they can get away with a lot more over there. So let them have their fun... at least until they can find girlfriends.
And now, we humbly present... the Rare Babes Hall Of Fame.
Oogle respectively
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Orchid | Maya | Joanna Dark | Candy | Vela |
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Dixie | Tiny | Tooty | Gruntilda (?) |