‘If Games Don’t Offer Us Complex Heroines, Then We Apparently Stop Looking For Them’

‘If Games Don’t Offer Us Complex Heroines, Then We Apparently Stop Looking For Them’

Briefly: “If games don’t offer us complex heroines, then we apparently stop looking for them.” That’s critic Maddy Myers discussing kink, sex positivity, and female empowerment in Bayonetta in an excellent essay for Paste. Give the whole thing a read, and remember to check out our review of Bayonetta 2.


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