Apologies for the incorrect title yesterday - fixed - and now with part 2! Again, slight spoilers in some places.
Some stand outs for me:
Full article here - and part one is here.
And the full list just because:
These aren’t necessarily the “best” or the most famous female video game characters; they’re the women who have intrigued us, perhaps because they’re great heroes, but maybe because they’re twisted and complicated. Whatever, they all more than just a warrior with a laser gun and the odd smart arse remark.
Please do add your own suggestions at the end – there were some excellent reader additions in part one!
Some stand outs for me:
River (To The Moon, 2011)
Kan Gao’s haunting adventure unfolds as a love story gone slightly wrong. If it breaks your heart (which it might) that’s mostly down to River, the wife of the lead character, who is caring, loving, creative and dedicated. She is also one of the few game characters explicitly diagnosed with Asperger’s, but it is never exploited during this nostalgic and poignant exploration of love and regret. Incredible to believe all this is achieved with a 16-bit game written using the $25 RPG Maker XP program.
Hannah Smith (Her Story, 2015)
A murder suspect seen only through a series of police interview videos, Hannah’s story is unsettling and provocative, but that’s what makes her one of gaming’s most fascinating creations. [Spoilers ahead] She both desires and manages to hide the existence of her estranged identical twin Eve through their childhood and adulthood, until that age-old symbol of womanhood – pregnancy – ruins things. As the entire focus of the game, actor Viva Seifert is an extraordinary presence.
Full article here - and part one is here.
And the full list just because:
Midna (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 2006)
Wynne (Dragon Age: Origins, 2009)
Amaterasu (Okami, 2006)
Jade (Beyond Good and Evil, 2003)
Ada Wong (Resident Evil series, 1996-)
Bonnie MacFarlane (Red Dead Redemption, 2010)
Tetra (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, 2002; Phantom Hourglass, 2007)
Cass (Fallout: New Vegas, 2010)
Red (Transistor, 2014)
Brigid Tenenbaum (Bioshock, 2007)
Aveline de Grandpré (Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, 2012)
Ellie (The Last of Us, 2013)
Clementine (The Walking Dead, 2012)
Vella Tartine (Broken Age, 2014)
Faith Connors (Mirror’s Edge, 2008)
Chell (Portal, 2007)
Samantha Greenbriar (Gone Home, 2013)
Hannah Smith (Her Story, 2015)
Elena Fisher (Uncharted, 2007)
Alyx Vance (Half-Life 2, 2004)
Chloe (Life is Strange, 2015)
Bayonetta (Bayonetta 2, 2014)
The female Inquisitor (Dragon Age Inquisition, 2014)
River (To The Moon, 2011)
Vivienne (Dragon Age Inquisition, 2014)
Impa (The Legend of Zelda series)
Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney series)
GLaDOS (Portal, 2004)
Fiona (Tales from the Borderlands, 2015)
Rosalind Lutece (Bioshock Infinite, 2013)
Wynne (Dragon Age: Origins, 2009)
Amaterasu (Okami, 2006)
Jade (Beyond Good and Evil, 2003)
Ada Wong (Resident Evil series, 1996-)
Bonnie MacFarlane (Red Dead Redemption, 2010)
Tetra (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, 2002; Phantom Hourglass, 2007)
Cass (Fallout: New Vegas, 2010)
Red (Transistor, 2014)
Brigid Tenenbaum (Bioshock, 2007)
Aveline de Grandpré (Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, 2012)
Ellie (The Last of Us, 2013)
Clementine (The Walking Dead, 2012)
Vella Tartine (Broken Age, 2014)
Faith Connors (Mirror’s Edge, 2008)
Chell (Portal, 2007)
Samantha Greenbriar (Gone Home, 2013)
Hannah Smith (Her Story, 2015)
Elena Fisher (Uncharted, 2007)
Alyx Vance (Half-Life 2, 2004)
Chloe (Life is Strange, 2015)
Bayonetta (Bayonetta 2, 2014)
The female Inquisitor (Dragon Age Inquisition, 2014)
River (To The Moon, 2011)
Vivienne (Dragon Age Inquisition, 2014)
Impa (The Legend of Zelda series)
Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney series)
GLaDOS (Portal, 2004)
Fiona (Tales from the Borderlands, 2015)
Rosalind Lutece (Bioshock Infinite, 2013)