Not exact matches
And yet — after the man
of the house dies in a freak accident and the two
girls are left to care for themselves —
hints begin to emerge that this may not be doomsday after all, but rather the dawn
of a new era in which women are freed from the patriarchy and reacquainted with their innate
power.
Minnow's experience includes vestiges
of fairy - tale details that
hint at Oakes» source material, but the heart
of her story — the loss
of agency at the hands
of a
power - hungry man — is all too familiar, and Oakes brings that element home by populating Minnow's detention center with young
girls who have been punished for fighting back.
If the game was to be made now, the player character would be an inhuman, grunting lump
of muscle (or in the case
of a female, the character would be an athletic nymphomaniac with disproportionate breasts, occasionally
hinting at having
girl power so to deflect any potential criticism
of sexism), the puzzles would simply be deleted, exploration would amount to just following the arrow to the next waypoint, and dialog would be halved.