It's like a Lovecraftian fish person...
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Maybe it’s unfair but I blame Sarkesian for all of this. Along with gaming companies refusing to accept that men and women tend to like different games generally speaking. I remember there was an assassins creed game where you could choose to play as the man or the woman (of course all the trailers had the woman I think) and the head of the company or head developer expressed disappointment that most players chose the man to play with. Same game where they changed it because the female character got pregnant and it angered the lgbt activists.
I’d say the uglification of women is a symptom of this
So from unity on they always had the option to play either male or female. Then Odyssey they decided that the sister was the canonical character and got annoyed when everyone played the brother.
Then in Valhalla they made the default you switched between man and woman because in-game they weren't sure if the character was a man or woman, so it switched at different times figuring most people aren't going to select the option of always male or female and instead keep it to the default.
I believe with Valhalla, the vast majority of people again preferred to play as the (historically accurate) male character. Most cite the better voice acting as a reason, but I think it’s just an excuse. Nobody wants to be some Viking chick, getting boned all across England (nobody normal anyway).
Now apparently for their next upcoming game still in the pipeline, there isn’t going to be ANY choice offered. Main protag will be female and that’s that. I’ve already read so many nauseating comments like, “finally a female lead”, it reminded me a lot of the “finally a black superhero” bullshit when Black Panther came out 🤦🏼
I bring it up because apparently the new Assassins game will also feature a black African samurai supporting character who we’re supposed to believe is based on a real historical dude who totally existed (we promise).
Like synthetic man says, “I’m not even angry anymore, I just don’t care...” 😒👍
The funny thing is you can do a female samurai if you write it right. Blue Eye Samurai was great. But you know they're not going to go this route.
They're going to go the "well in this world no one bats an eye to woman samurai and there is zero prejudice."