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The Last of Us

…that goes to lengths to create interesting female characters, all the human enemies are male. (CW: anti-indigenous slur) The Last of Us II seems positioned to address Albor’s criticism based on a gameplay trailer (CW: violence against women, gore), but not everyone seems enthused.

Dadification of the Apocalypse

One of the most popular approaches to discussing gender in The Last of Us has been examining the relationship between Joel and Ellie as one of surrogate father and daughter. As The Last of Us is positioned within the phenomenon known as “the dadification of games” alongside Bioshock Infinite…

September 23rd

…diversity in games. I’m also delighted to see much-needed critical introspection this week on dadification, Nintendo, romance games for women, spatial design, and more. So join me on a trip through this week’s roundup, keep thinking, and keep playing. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days.

Opening Access

I noticed lots of writing this week on making game spaces–be they game worlds, workplaces, or sites of competitive play–more inclusive and more accessible, and I’m always excited to see this stuff, as it’s a cause…

August 18th

…is a showing of things to come and for us to transfer our feelings from one girl to the next as Joel does.

Mattie Brice on the other hand concludes that The Last of Us would have been a brilliant commentary on the “dadification of games” if it had anyway been on purpose.

Meanwhile, Robert Rath decides to look at the real world science of the Cordyceps and other infections that mind control their hosts. Nightmares ho!

Just over the halfway mark.

Gender in Games

Michael Robinson tackles the type of games that blatantly objectify…

Kill Screen archive

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    • September 1st

    …from the edges against the industry-wide reflex to make everything in games for and about men.

    “The Wine Aunt sneers at the “Dad Build” talk, Dadification, and the burgeoning someday-Dads who are already upset when they’re not exclusively catered to, when marginalized non-Dads dare to ask for inclusion in this hobby, in more thoughtful ways than they clamored for a new Mass Effect 3 ending.”

    Storytelling by Design

    I’m always interested in the small and large ways that stories are built into games and all their myriad systems, as well as how players alternately

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    God of War (2018)

    …the past look like? God of War is an old franchise; it found its starts in the latter days of the PS2, two entire console generations ago – an eternity in video game terms. Even by inertia alone, by force of the aging of both its developers and audience, the God of War of 2018 could not be the same as that of 2005. Klepek writes:

    It’s part of a broader “dadification” of games, in which a largely male-dominated industry is going through the motions of aging, and the products they’re making are beginning to reflect those changes

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    July 19th

    …are gathered here.

    • Absent Mothers | Bullet Points Monthly Natalie Flores studies how The Last of Us Part II continues the dadification trend of ignoring the stories and legacies of mothers.
    • The Not So Hidden Israeli Politics of ‘The Last of Us Part II’ | VICE Emanuel Maiberg traces thematic connections between the cycle of hatred and violence in The Last of Us Part II and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find the treatment to be less than evenhanded.

    “I suspect that some players, if they consciously clock the parallels at all, will think The

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    August 2nd

    …No Matter His Age, the Point of Nier is Compassion, Not Tragedy | Sidequest Madison Butler compares the younger and older iterations of the character Nier, finding that the latter bucks the more brooding trends towards dadification in favour of telling a more compassionate story.

  • How Persona 5 Royals’ Mature Love Interests Reinforce Toxic Masculinity | Uppercut Jess Cogswell unpacks the double-standard undercutting Persona 5 between masculine and feminine authority figures who prey on children (Content Notifications for sexual abuse).

    • “In Persona 5 Royal, Atlus perpetuates their long-standing relationship with toxic masculinity by refusing to acknowledge…