And really - how hard would it have been for the developers to choose a name that hasn't already graced a recent, generally well-liked computer game character? Surely if you want your MC to make a mark, you at least give her a singularly identifying name.
There's a lot to be disappointed about here, for many reasons, but I have wanted a female assassin for so long I can't even stay mad. I'm buying a Vita just for this.
I'm sad that this is on PS Vita. I'm guessing they're hoping for the Assassin's Creed name to drive a Vita sales boost. The setting and main character look like something I'd love, but... Vita. Ugh. :(
First of all, I shall hug this comment and give it all my love *hugs*
I get this line of BS soooo much from the SF/F novelist community. Dragons? Sure. A farm boy who's never lifted a sword in his life suddenly being better than master swordsmen? Sure. An unknown peasant getting an audience with the king? Why not? But a WOMAN as a hero? Inconceivable!! Not only that but god forbid a black woman or an East Asian woman even be in a MADE-UP draconian fantasy. Y'know, because that's not "realistic"...uuuuuuugh *eyeroll* I have yet to see someone make an amazing high fantasy series (book, game, film, or show) with the majority of the cast being people of color, little to no racial/gender/etc stereotypes, and a solid female protagonist. It would be even more amazing if this person weren't able-bodied or had characters that are like Bran in Game of Thrones (I have a lot of ambivalent feels about this too but that's a spiel for another day). And non-heterosexual. Seriously. All the awards to that person should they succeed, even for just a
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I have to recommend Nnedi Okorafor to you. Go out and find Akata Witch or Who Fears Death. Especially Who Fears Death. The author is black and her MCs are always black. In WFD, there's still colonialism (in the distant future). The MC is a young black woman who pretty much decides that she's the "chosen one" and goes off to change this book that gives one culture superiority over another culture. However, I do want to warn for rape and circumcision. Her YA novels don't have anything so dark in them so far as I have seen. Magic and technology pretty much exist side by side in her books and they're just so amazing. I seriously can't recommend her enough.
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I gotta agree with the commenter, even if it's more... idk, cynical than I'm feeling. I just looked at the comment and nodded along.
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I get this line of BS soooo much from the SF/F novelist community. Dragons? Sure. A farm boy who's never lifted a sword in his life suddenly being better than master swordsmen? Sure. An unknown peasant getting an audience with the king? Why not? But a WOMAN as a hero? Inconceivable!!
Not only that but god forbid a black woman or an East Asian woman even be in a MADE-UP draconian fantasy. Y'know, because that's not "realistic"...uuuuuuugh *eyeroll* I have yet to see someone make an amazing high fantasy series (book, game, film, or show) with the majority of the cast being people of color, little to no racial/gender/etc stereotypes, and a solid female protagonist. It would be even more amazing if this person weren't able-bodied or had characters that are like Bran in Game of Thrones (I have a lot of ambivalent feels about this too but that's a spiel for another day). And non-heterosexual. Seriously. All the awards to that person should they succeed, even for just a ( ... )
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