TheGamer's Best Features Of The Week: Bridget Coming Out As Trans, Forspoken Dialogue, And Prey
So let me get this straight... I'm somewhere I'd call TheGamer, I'm seeing freaking great articles put together in a roundup, and, oh yeah, I'm narrating an intro! I'll probably write the rest of the article next.
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Happy Thursday, folks. That incredible intro should clue you into one of the topics we'll be talking about today - as we approach Gamescom, things are getting busier and busier, which is exactly what we like to see.
Some of the bigger topics of the week include Bridget coming out as trans in Guilty Gear Strive and how we love to see it, the awful dialogue in Forspoken and whose fault it is, and some positive reactions to Prey. We've also got a piece taking a look at the effect of Government mandates on young Chinese gamers.
Bridget was just as one of Guilty Gear Strive's DLC characters earlier this week and she brought with a new revelation in her storyline, officially coming out as trans in her story mode. Bridget's backstory has her raised as a girl due to some village superstition, with most characters referring to her with he/him pronouns, which lead features editor Jade King correctly argues was leaning into harmful "trap" stereotypes. Thankfully, Guilty Gear Strive has finally ended that and officially made the character trans.
Bridget was such an important topic of discussion this week that we had two fantastic articles about it, this one by TheGamer's editor-in-chief Stacey Henley, who argued that the gaming industry needs to be doing better than only having a weird bird lizard thing from Mario and two fighting game characters with pretty rocky histories as representation for trans women. Trans men have it slightly better with
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