The concept behind Body Swap (originally called Gender Swap) was that all of the male characters would become female, and vice versa. But after some discussions both internal and external, we quickly realized that we could do more than just a simple reversing of all the genders of the characters. After all, there is an enormous spectrum of genders or labels that players might want to customize. However, we also had to balance the scope of the feature, so we came up with this feature set:
We would create the opposite bodies for our main characters: Shovel Knight and Shield Knight, Enchantress, Black Knight and all the Knights of the Order of No Quarter. Each of these character swaps could be controlled independently, to give whatever mix of character bodies the player wanted. Finally, in English, the pronouns for each of the characters could also be swapped, so you could have a male character called “her” or vice versa! This would all be controlled by a simple menu. Here’s how it turned out!
from GoNintendo
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