I am not talking about the fact that "Street Fighter 2" is more well-known, I am talking about the reactions (or lack of reactions) from the people who have actually played that game and "Wild Guns".
A lot of people who play "Street Fighter 2" will at least acknowledge or joke about "racist characters" at some point, but people who play "Wild Guns" seem surprisingly tolerant about the "stereotypical genders" thing that people seem to find so sensitive nowadays.
Some people even insist that all differences between men and women are exclusively "social constructions", and I guarantee that some of those people would react if they saw a tall muscular tough guy and a petite woman in a pink dress and flowers in her hair etc - at least in Sweden, where some feminists can be really sensitive when it comes to these things and start talking about how something like this "encourages gender ideals" etc, but maybe people are less uptight about this in America;
I honestly don't know anyone in real life who has even heard of this game, so I don't know what reactions people would have over here.
Anyway, while I am on the topic of "Wild Guns", I would like to point out that a few things that I have always missed in this game are "Lock" functions for the characters and the cursors, and also the ability to crouch.
You could for example lock the cursor with the L button so that it stayed in place while you moved around, and you could lock the character by holding down the R button (and obviously, crouching would be done with the Down button).
Yes, you stand still while you are firing a weapon, but sometimes you may want to move the cursor without having to waste ammo.
Hopefully they will add these functions to some future re-release, that would be a big improvement to the controls.
One argument that you might have to these controller functions is that you might accidentally crouch when you want to run - in that case you can simply make it so that crouching is only possible when you hold down the A button, which has no other purpose anyway, or even have the A button itself for crouching.