Conversations around the game haven’t much mentioned its female lead, Anna Castellanos, and just how radical she is. Anna reads like an antidote to all of the negativity surrounding female representations in gaming. She is the definition of a positive, complex, likable character—strong, with a difficult past, but the furthest from a “victim” stereotype one can be. She is a woman of color, and a medical doctor—an element reinforced by the gameplay, in which only Anna can access certain parts of a hospital setting, thanks to her credentials. She’s attractive, but by no means over-sexualized, and she holds her own in any number of difficult situations, including a scene where she evades an attacker in her own home. In many ways, she is exactly what feminist critics have been looking for in female characters.
That stuff went deeper than expected.