I can't remember where I heard it originally but someone had an interesting idea for a video game with a positive female protagonist. It's a game where you play as a mother of two and is set in the middle of a war zone where you need to try and escape with your children to the border. It would be a lot like Ico but with the artstyle found in like The Saboteur. Preferably no combat, with more of an emphasis on stealth and persuasion. Maybe one or two minor combat scenes, but done like scene in Heavy Rain where you cut off your own pinky. Something that builds up the tension and just makes the violence and gore more realistic than say... God of War. It'd definitely have to end with the death of the mother, shot in the back, much like Bäumer's death in All Quiet on the Western Front. It would also need to be a somewhat short game, somewhere between 5-8 hours, that way nothing feels repeated, artificially lengthened, and let's face it... any longer and the impact of what you're seeing and experience would probably begin to wane.
It's definitely a game I'd play.
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