Welcome to Greek Mythology… where everything is made up and the points don’t matter.
To give the game some credit, I didn’t notice just how badly the timeline for this world got bungled until after I had beaten the game twice and then did this project with Sam. When I had 8 hours between visits to a given world, it was easy to forget some of the particulars. Having AtRiley cut this in chronological order just puts in into perspective.
It’s also hard to unsee just how different Aqua is treated in this world compared to other worlds. In all the other worlds, being a woman informs her character, but it never becomes a defining trait of who she is and what she’s involved in. Here, Sam’s right in that she just gets treated like the token chick. Even if it’s only for this part of the game, I’m left quite uncomfortable about that. Not only does it perpetrate harmful stereotypes, but the character deserves better than that.
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