Sapphire Dreams
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As we all know, Arabs like myself didn't quite have the best of representations in video games in the past 20 years or so, dozens f FPS games portrayed them in a very horrible light and others have portrayed them in a very stereotypical light (looking at you SFV), but Overwatch came along and Blizzard not only depicted Arabs in their universe, but depicted them in a very positive way!
First we have Ana Amari, not only a strong female character with a strong sense of justice, in the lore she is one of the founders of Overwatch! Her depiction is rather unusual for an Arab character and her being being one of the major characters in the lore of Overwatch is quite amazing! She has a design that is very faithful to her ethnicity as an Egyptian woman and she is not sexualized like other character like Widowmanker for example.
Next we have her daughter Pharah, a strong woman and just like her mother a person with a strong sense of justice, she is basically captain Egypt. She is also not sexualized and plays a good role in the lore of Overwatch, even if it is not as big as her mother. She also looks Egyptian and her depiction is not stereotyped at all and rather unique for her ethnicity, and if you read her comic, the arabs there are not stereotyped as well.
And we have maps like Oasis and Temple of Anubis, while Temple of Anubis looks somewhat stereotypical, Oasis is set in Iraq and it's depicted as a very futuristic looking city with skyscrapers, clean streets and even the map has things like libraries, it doesn't show the Arabs here as backwards thinking or people with not sense technology or scientific appreciation. Even Temple of Anubis looks really beautiful and in the comic it's where they put a highly advanced AI.
I really commend Blizzard for doing all of that and I hope they continue what they do here in the future
First we have Ana Amari, not only a strong female character with a strong sense of justice, in the lore she is one of the founders of Overwatch! Her depiction is rather unusual for an Arab character and her being being one of the major characters in the lore of Overwatch is quite amazing! She has a design that is very faithful to her ethnicity as an Egyptian woman and she is not sexualized like other character like Widowmanker for example.
Next we have her daughter Pharah, a strong woman and just like her mother a person with a strong sense of justice, she is basically captain Egypt. She is also not sexualized and plays a good role in the lore of Overwatch, even if it is not as big as her mother. She also looks Egyptian and her depiction is not stereotyped at all and rather unique for her ethnicity, and if you read her comic, the arabs there are not stereotyped as well.
And we have maps like Oasis and Temple of Anubis, while Temple of Anubis looks somewhat stereotypical, Oasis is set in Iraq and it's depicted as a very futuristic looking city with skyscrapers, clean streets and even the map has things like libraries, it doesn't show the Arabs here as backwards thinking or people with not sense technology or scientific appreciation. Even Temple of Anubis looks really beautiful and in the comic it's where they put a highly advanced AI.
I really commend Blizzard for doing all of that and I hope they continue what they do here in the future
And buff Roadhog God damn it!