![]() ![]() The game’s cast is gender balanced, with a roughly equal number of male and female characters, and the female ones play an important role in driving the story. Its supposedly-powerful women have little agency, or are demonized while also being heavily sexualized. All differences beyond appearances have essentially become irrelevant.Īnd yet, the game neither offers a fantasy world of true equality nor engages meaningfully with discrimination. By all appearances, Revenants stay the same, without aging, and do not have gender-based differences in powers or strength, nor do they bear children. At first, any issues with the game’s gender equality seem minor and almost irrelevant. In terms of gameplay, all of the characters are relatively equal in power, aside from the protagonist. It is also purely cosmetic, with no advantages or disadvantages for choosing certain genders and so on. The character creator given at the start of the game is extensive, offering a wide range of customization for looks if not body types. And yet, despite that, the story still mistreats its female characters. ![]() That means there is no space to dismiss anyone who could help rebuild, regardless of gender. The lack of population has caused infrastructure and other institutions to crumble to almost nothing. The society of the game can barely function because only a few humans remain, while the rest are either Revenants or monsters. In essence, they are vampires but via the aid technology. The player is a Revenant, a being of superhuman strength revived by something called the Biological Organ Regenerative Parasite (BOR Parasite) that makes its host thirst for blood. Code Vein, a game developed and published by Bandai Namco, combines a post-apocalyptic setting with a strong vampiric aesthetic and well-polished combat, but fails to experiment or break out of conventional narrative gender roles. They have long been the site of experimentation with concepts of power, sexuality, and gender. There is something profoundly intriguing about vampires and vampire mythology. Content Warning: Discussion of medical abuse, sexualized violence, misogyny.
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