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Feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian has debuted the first video in her new series, Positive Female Characters, where she examines examples of video games getting feminism right.This premiere episode focuses on the player character in Capybara Games' 2011 adventure Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, a game we rather liked.
"This episode examines how Sword & Sworcery employs widely recognisable action adventure game tropes to make the Scythian's quest feel like the stuff of video game legend, and how in doing so, it asserts that women can fill the role of the mythic hero as effectively as men can," stated Sarkeesian in her video description.
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