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Portal & "Feminist Games"

April 20, 2017

Why talk about a game that was made ten years ago? Why talk about a game that has been talked about to death?

Because I played Portal again for the first time in a long time, and I think it's an exemplary example for women in games, but not for the reasons I used to think it was.

It's a game about and for women, but not entirely for the reasons that male game reviewers seem to think it is.

Portal speaks to something darker, more private, and deeply intimate. 

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