Our media landscape is obsessed with youth. Coming from someone who's yet to see the other side of 30 maybe that’s a bit rich, but ageing is not only natural, it's inevitable, and the absence of older female l🐬eads is🍎 only becoming more difficult to ignore. Games offer little reprieve as I dive into another adventure surrounded by teenagers or look to the industry itself and see less than a handful of mentor figures. 

Snake has reckoned with his own mortality and legacy, Kratos has become the Dad Of War, and even Nathan Drake has settled down. As the audience and developers themselves age, it makes sense that game narratives skew towards reflecting these later-life experiences, informing a trend of typical action heroes becoming grizzled silver foxes and taking on the mightiest boss of all: fatherhood. However, as I'm sure you're aware, the audience and teams behind games extends far beyond middle-aged white guys and, even though it takes a village, we rarely see ꧃older female characters doing the same narrative heavy lifting. 

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Speaking of villages, Lady Alcina Dimitrescu caused quite a stir with her towering presence, laughter lines, and three bloody lovely daughters in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil Village. Tellingly horror is one of few genre🌺s to play host to older women pursuing their own goals or even looking their age.