Because I thought it better to let you know I've addressed this question thoroughly in the comments below (above?) and it would be better to read those than for a recap. And I couldn't answer a yes or no as it's not that simple. Things rarely are.

Ooooh boy, I knew someone like you would eventually appear.

Why is this the only defense to pedophilic games anyone has? Read through the comments to get my response to this. It's better than trying to repeat myself.

"Child molesters are defined by their acts; pedophiles are defined by their desires"

It's like you didn't read anything I wrote. I'm almost impressed.

I thought I replied to this but it appears it disappeared. I brought up much of the same points Keitao333 did, however.

this isn't Japan. just because one culture agrees on something doesn't make it right. most cultures like their women to be younger and more petite. there's the trend in movies and tv shows in USA of the elderly man dating/marrying a woman of extremely young age. this happens in real life.

apples and oranges. having violent entertainment won't hurt anybody. people don't go out and start gun fights to film them and distribute online. however, pedophiles do go out and sexually abuse children and share videos and pictures online. most pedophiles keep it to themselves but because they use the internet to…

you're comparing apples and oranges and presenting a very very weak argument.

pedophile: a person who is sexually attracted to children.
psychopath: a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.

the game in the article, from the very brief images and few seconds of video i've…

i think that niche group you're talking about is called "pedophiles". jesus, this is some weird sexual game starring kids? creepy as fuck.

aw no, they have kids for your attendant in the velvet room this time... that's not good.

neat! i love the stylized look of the animation.

yeah the designs went off the rails and for a teenager it was so stupid and lame i didn't want to admit having fun with the game. I think that mindset was the same as the realistic Zelda vs cartoony Zelda. First seeing Wind Waker, like many others, I thought it was so dumb. But now that I'm older and played it and…

lol he has a bedhead hair in like a jumpsuit who looks like he fell into a kitchen cabinet with all that miscellaneous armor plates. Fucking hardcore when I was 13, but how it seems a bit silly? Forever teenage cool, though!

Nintendo needed to compete with SEGA's "extreme" marketing somehow. Didn't turn out so great, but hey, they... tried? I think?

Kiddy Kong was a dumb character, like I ranted about in my other post, but I wonder if changing his onesie to white and slapping "Jr." on it wouldn't have helped?

this is technically a good game. great level design and i love the overworld. i got it as an xmas or birthday present one year and played through the whole thing. but it's also the first game i ever sold to a GameStop/EB/whatever they used to be called.

at a glance majority look really shitty and generic

Nice! So male to female? While the trans community is certainly under represented in media, as many groups and peoples are, I wonder if we'll ever see more representation from the female to male part. Usually when it's trans in media you only see male to female change. I wonder why that is?

That R.O.B. though