Over the course of this past summer, I played through the entirety of 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. It’s an excellent game—mechanically satisfying, with a solid story and gorgeous views of Ptolemaic Egypt (I’ve easily spent several hours in photo mode alone). But by far one of the best parts of Origins is its protagonist, Bayek of Siwa, who defies a lot of conventional ideals about how men should be portrayed in media. The result is, put simply, just a really good character.

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