We loved this superhero game in 2022, partly because of the performance by its 300-year-old hero, Hunter.
Dissociative amnesia is a condition linked to stress in which you can forget information about yourself, events from your life, and even learned skills. In reality, it's mercifully rare—the US hospital networksays around 1% of men and 2.6% of women in the general population are affected. But among videogame protagonists, prevalence is much higher, and the loss of memory is usually extensive.
Then there's the roleplaying bonus. Amnesia helps reduce the knowledge gap between the protagonist and player—the dissonance that comes from hopping straight into the body of a person with preexisting relationships and hitting their lifelong friends with questions like,"Who are you again?" If that character has amnesia, there's suddenly an in-universe reason to hold orientation meetings.
It's a convenient device—but becomes something more, thanks to a decision from Firaxis to lean into fish-out-of-water comedy. The backstory of The Hunter is a dark fantasy tale that takes place in the age of the Salem witch trials. She was born the child of an ordinary man and an immortal witch, but when her father succumbed to plague, grief led her mother down a dark path, at the end of which was a deal with an evil Elder God.
The Hunter quickly drops the definite article to become Hunter, just another t-shirt-wearing supe with a strange origin story in a roster full of 'em. But she retains her owl-like stare—perhaps amplified by Midnight Suns' b-grade facial animation—and brings an endearingly naive earnestness to every encounter. It's the same tone that made Patty Jenkins' 2017 Wonder Woman sing, and which was fatally lacking in the movie's sequel.
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