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Damsels in Distress (2025)

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The Game OverThinker is back to rank the video game universe! All the insight and humor you've come to expect - now in convenient list form!

THIS TIME: Did video games come of age leaning too hard on the ancient story trope of treating female characters as trophies to be won because of systemic patriarchal sexism, or just because it’s a longstanding part of our shared cultural mythology and thus easy to fall back on? TRICK QUESTION - those are the same thing! "The Damsel in Distress" is gaming's oldest problematic trope, but that doesn't mean the characters themselves were bad automatically bad OR that there wasn't a best of the lot.

"Reformat," "8bit Dungeon Boss", "Ambler", "BlockMan", "Cyborg Ninja", "Danger Storm", "Kick Shock", "Mellowtron", "Rhinoceros", "Show Your Moves", "Video Dungeon Boss"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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