The online fervor has led to the harassment of developers and others who work to undo negative female representation. Those same critics try to elevate games that they believe actively reject leftist values, coalescing this year around Stellar Blade, which stars a scantily clad female hero. — Sony Interactive Entertainment
The intergalactic bounty hunter in the sci-fi video game Metroid was outfitted with a sleek helmet, red and orange armour and a deadly arm cannon. But it’s what was underneath that was emblematic of the late 1980s.
If a player defeated the game in less than an hour, the character Samus Aran would flash until that armored suit was suddenly gone, replaced by a blond woman in a pink bikini.
