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I'd nominate Cyberpunk for feminist propaganda. Literally everyone in the game who you need to go through to get information or pull off something inportant is female. Males (one maybe two exceptions) are relegated to helpers, generic thugs, washed up, or gay romance options. At no point whatsoever does the game assume you're interested in playing a hetero male or female, and goes out of its way to avoid pronoun use. "HEY V!"

Despite as far as it goes with all this, it still falls short of what lgbtqp editorials expected and there were numerous articles calling it out as such. Still, it created a benchmark of sorts that other games will be challenged to beat going forward.

If we're going strictly feminist, I'll also back Last of Us 2, which couldn't hold it's shit for 3 minutes of gameplay before we're supposed to sympathize with Elly because the bigot barkeeper called her a word. Not in front of us though, the night before. Just take her word guys, it was really mean.

Edit: both are meant as consideration for this year's releases only.

3 years ago
2 score
Reason: Original

I'd nominate Cyberpunk for feminist propaganda. Literally everyone in the game who you need to go through to get information or pull off something inportant is female. Males (one maybe two exceptions) are relegated to helpers, generic thugs, washed up, or gay romance options. At no point whatsoever does the game assume you're interested in playing a hetero male or female, and goes out of its way to avoid pronoun use. "HEY V!"

Despite as far as it goes with all this, it still falls short of what lgbtqp editorials expected and there were numerous articles calling it out as such. Still, it created a benchmark of sorts that other games will be challenged to beat going forward.

If we're going strictly feminist, I'll also back Last of Us 2, which couldn't hold it's shit for 3 minutes of gameplay before we're supposed to sympathize with Elly because the bigot barkeeper called her a word. Not in front of us though, the night before. Just take her word guys, it was really mean.

3 years ago
1 score