> rare shooters with a female protagonist

It's not that rare, is it? Off-hand, and very mainstream; Perfect Dark, Mirrors Edge, Dishonored (don't remember if it's the first or second one), Metroid and more are all kind of "shooters" with female protagonist, although maybe Mirror's Edge is more just "first-person" than "shooter" to be 100% accurate.

Not to mention the large selection of "RPG + FPS" where you can be either man or woman.

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Seems the author also realize the thing with the pattern and likely gender of the cat:

> After all, I do need to give the protagonist his fair share. [image] (Yes, I know it's a female, but call it convention rooted in dialect.)

> one of the rare shooters with a female protagonist

No, this isn't a Perfect Dark game

A lot of boomer shooters nowadays have a female protagonist, e.g. Selaco[0], Supplice[1], The Citadel[2] and its sequel[3], Zortch[4] (and its upcoming sequel[5]), Nighmare Reaper[6], COVEN[7], Viscerafest[8], Hedon[9], etc. If anything i'd say that nowadays there are way more boomer shooters with female protagonists than not :-P (combining the tags "boomer shooter" with "female protagonist" on Steam search gives 143 results, though that includes games where you can either choose your character's gender or you play as a woman for a part of the game even if you play as a man for most of it).

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592280/Selaco/

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693280/Supplice/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1378290/The_Citadel/

[3] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371240/Beyond_Citadel/

[4] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2443360/Zortch/

[5] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3807500/Zortch_2/

[6] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051690/Nightmare_Reaper/

[7] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1785940/COVEN/

[8] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1406780/Viscerafest/

[9] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1072150/Hedon_Bloodrite/