Growing up, video games were definitely a “boys thing”. Recesses were spent hearing about the latest characters, plot twists, and which game let you blow a zombie’s head off in the most gruesome fashion.
Back in the 2000s, there simply wasn’t the gender representation in video games that there is today. As a result, I clung onto a (small) handful of strong female characters that weren’t damsels in distress or sexualised to the nth degree.
