NYTimes confirms female character to ****** pipeline is REAL

[Tangerine]

Never really noticed, but at least 95% of metroidvania protagonists are female.

Clod, is this true?

Sex - Count
Male - 46
Female - 33
Ambiguous / Ungendered - 12
Variable (player choice) - 6
Mixed (multi-protagonist) - 3

[Tweed]

Metroid? More like Metfoid.

[Niggler]

Tbh it depends on the game for me. Earlier games where male characters aren't effeminate, I will play as a male, like Commander Shepard or even Hawke, those two were chads. But sadly gaming lost its masculinity a long time ago and now men have to be weak, gay and ******** to fill a commie quota and I just don't wanna see that. Same problem with modern girlbosses.

[methoxetamine]

having a helpless little girl as the MC of a metroidvania is cool, actually.

[A Chinese opium den]

having a helpless little girl as the MC of a metroidvania is cool, actually.

Lol this guy roleplays as a helpless little girl.

[methoxetamine]

having a helpless little girl as the MC of a metroidvania is cool, actually.

Lol this guy roleplays as a helpless little girl.

actually I roleplay as the spirit that materializes when you press attack

[Breathe]

having a helpless little girl as the MC of a metroidvania is cool, actually.

Lol this guy roleplays as a helpless little girl.

actually I roleplay as the spirit that materializes when you press attack

Yeah but then they’ll just call you a simp.

[Breathe]

Never really noticed, but at least 95% of metroidvania protagonists are female.

Clod, is this true?

Sex - Count
Male - 46
Female - 33
Ambiguous / Ungendered - 12
Variable (player choice) - 6
Mixed (multi-protagonist) - 3

Maybe it feels like more women because a lot of the good ones have female protags.