Case Study 4 - Samus Aran - Metroid.
The last example of a misleading character which I looked at, was of course Samus Aran, a short and sweet case study.
In fact, this character is infamous for fooling pretty much everyone in the demographic when it was revealed that the 6 foot 3 inches tall, 198 lb bounty hair clad in full space armour was actually a woman and not a man, as everyone had believed.
In fact, this character is infamous for fooling pretty much everyone in the demographic when it was revealed that the 6 foot 3 inches tall, 198 lb bounty hair clad in full space armour was actually a woman and not a man, as everyone had believed.
On Kotaku, Brian Ashcraft even writes that he was 'floored by the game's big reveal' -
http://kotaku.com/5634616/how-did-metroids-samus-aran-become-a-female-character
- and includes a quote stating that during development a staff member had suggested that she be female as a surprise for the player.
This is a perfect example of physicality misleading a player. This big, heavily armoured character was assumed by pretty much everyone to be male.
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