Mark

"So by that logic any masculine character automatically means there's some sort of sexual element?"

How do you extrapolate "walking phallic symbol" into "any masculine character"? That's a mighty fine strawman you've built there.

"Who is anyone other than the creator of the art to tell what the art means?"

Art doesn't work that way. People can interpret art however they want, and often multiple interpretations of a work can exist. An artist doesn't get to forever dictate how we think of their art. They have their interpretation, we can have our own.

Seems like Ito has too much of an ego to understand that he doesn't get to dictate how people analyze and interpret art. He's free to say whatever he wants, but calling fans ignorant because they have different interpretations and draw different conclusions than his is ridiculous. That's not how art works.

I agree entirely, however it seems like many younger gamers don't want to touch these classic old games because "janky controls and outdated graphics." Which seems like refusing to watch a classic movie like Psycho because it's in black and white.