Like, I'm tired of the Double Dragon issue because it seems rather petty to try and discredit a 30-minute video by nitpicking one tiny part of it while saying absolutely nothing about the main points she brings up.
I'm glad you're tired of it. Because it's going to happen again and again every time she brings up a game that's anywhere outside of her clearly limited area of knowledge, and maybe then you'll start to see why this is indicative of an actual issue. Or everyone else will while sifting through your rants.
It's not that she got one thing wrong, it's that she got the
one thing that wasn't extremely obvious wrong*. It speaks to the thing that a lot of people have been worried about, which is that she's not the context expert that she acts like, and as this goes on she's in danger of piling on more and more "little misunderstandings" until the general public that she's addressing starts to get the entirely wrong idea. At worst it will backfire and set her cause back to somewhere behind where she started, and more likely it will just bring people around to the issue but in a skewed, weird manner, like the entire parallel violence-in-games debate. I want developers like WayForward to be able to be honest about how ass-backwards our gender politics and other issues were and are without getting all nervous that some movement out there is going to misunderstand their intentions.
Also, this is not going to help, but the
very first other point I clicked to in the video while looking to see if she mentioned any other games like Neon had her saying "Zelda has never starred in her own adventure." Which, while of course we don't like to admit it, is also
wrong. If I were random-clicking instead of watching the whole 30-minute monologue, you know, like most people, it'd be really, really easy to write this lady off as "Doesn't know what she's talking about." Which, as Bal has mentioned several times, wouldn't be half the problem it is if not for the conceit that her words carry weight because she's literally paid to go do research on this stuff.
* In the sense that it's the only really modern or low-profile game she mentions, although after reviewing I have to grant that there's at least one other obscure title, Vigilante, which she doesn't really say much about (not that she has to).