The Big Question: Who's The Best Animal Protagonist?
Stray has taken the gaming world by storm. This is good news for cats and their humans everywhere, as most of you are probably spending the weekend roaming around a cyberpunk world as the unnamed feline hero. This is also great news for us, because it means we can run an animal-based Big Question without being called furries.
This week, we ponder a simple question: who is the best animal protagonist in gaming?
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Sonic’s characterization in everything up to and including Sonic Adventure 2 was fantastic. That’s not to diss modern Sonic, but as I’ve said before, the blue blur was at his best when he was an annoying little shit. And an eco-terrorist. His painfully 1990s ‘too cool for school’ persona remains undefeated in the huge genre of animal gaming protagonists, and Sega really should return to Sonic’s nature-loving, capitalist-hating roots.
When most people think of the chaotic freelance police that are Sam and Max, it tends to be Max that gets all the love. Justifiably, of course: he’s a small, fluffy likkle wabbit (technically Lagomorph, but whatever) that solves most problems with gratuitous violence. Unfortunately, it’s hard for his dog partner in ‘solving’ crime Sam to get the limelight, which is a shame because he is a sweetheart. He’s Max’s anchor, and while he is just as prone to bouts of violence and chaos as his rabbit ‘partner’, he does it in a suaver, wisecracking way that comes off as a hundred times more endearing. This dog is husband material, whereas Max is a wild one-night fling.
Nobody can convince me that these two aren’t the gayest of gay couples to have ever gayed. There are countless YouTube compilations providing ample evidence for it, and
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