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With the protagonist of the first campaign of SoK, it's a total joke. In her portrait, she's a creepy psychopath covered in blood and grime, but in the art between missions, she's actually quite pretty. The game's splash art, however, is closer to the portrait.

I don't remember the artifacts. But I think they tried to make a copy of the heroes (the red-haired lady Knight), just more "warlike" and so on. In the end, it didn't turn out very well, just like with the other Campaign heroes. Except maybe the necro guy with the rat was decent compared to the rest. Among the secondary characters, there are some better folks, but most of them are still some weirdos, of course.

So by character, the protagonist Alerona was indeed a psychopath who seemed to be looking for an excuse to cause a massacre. Not sure, though, that it was planned that way.

Arleon's campaign was so well received that in the DLC with Lot's campaign we undo all of redhead's efforts and give the Necros back everything they lost in the first campaign). In the end, the only thing that matters is the execution of the crowd favorite Silkspull, which triggered the frogs to go to war against Arleon as well. And the redhead's scary friend (the one with the axe) gets sidelined in Barya's campaign.

Brother Hillar from Lot's first campaign is the best character in the game. And overall, Lot is clearly the developers' favorite faction.

They probably have their favorite heroes as seventh-level ones with the good Necromancers)

Well, necromancers stopped being evil back in the expansion for the fifth game.

She's a fine lady, just in a functional practical armor instead of a fanservice chainmail bikini.

I'm worried about Gelu now, what if they strip him of the BDSM black latex from the original too.

And there you have it, modern double standards in action:

A hot, fap-worthy queen becomes just a plain woman — "that's right, now she looks like a real warrior"

Gelu gets put in a regular outfit — "nooo, not the BDSM outfit with practically half the body exposed 😭"

I'd like to argue that; it doesn't hold up against common sense.

Where is this "the norm"? Thousands of games come out. They simply won't sell well with ugly female characters.

Especially the "ugly" ones:

Stellar Blade

Nier: Automata

The First Descendant

Horizon Zero Dawn

Cyberpunk 2077

Even if you bring up Genshin, everyone there is beautiful.

And I'm sure Reva could name a couple dozen more gachas that are basically just full of beautiful characters.

Hey. Went to "Two Ovens" on your recommendation. They just opened a second location.

Well, overall it's fine, but I still felt that "Kuba" was a bit better.

Almost everything you listed was, by an amazing coincidence, made by Asians... and Horaizan is off-topic, by the way. Because he's being compared to the sequel, where Aloy looks worse than in the first part.

The cube is one of the main sponsors of me and my husband's insomnia for the whole summer🤬

But in general, a great thaw has recently begun. The trend for scary heroines in Western games has been on the decline.

Well, Silkspul (that's what I call him) does start to seem like a decent guy by the end of all the campaigns. And the fact that the humans have two black women — I didn't even realize that at first, because they look alike. There are already too few heroes there, and for some reason they add identical ones on top of that, no idea why they couldn't have made one of them a man or just come up with a different design. The Necros do look like a more pleasant faction, although the humans are fine unit-wise too. The other two are so-so, though the Mechanics had a chance.

And this game showed me that the HoMM devs did well when they decided to dilute the ugly factions with humans, even if just in the form of heroes, like with the Swamp. Because when the whole faction is frogs and lizards, it gets really boring.

Lady Hammond originally had a different portrait. In my opinion, it suited the intended character type better. I'm not entirely sure why it was changed.

No double standards here. There's already a billion media with naked women and properly dressed ones are in short supply, while naked men have to be gathered bit by bit. Once representation of both in mass culture is equal, happiness will follow.