Grace Nakimura taught me that an Asian woman could be anything she wanted. (From 2021)
had an exciting art direction for the time: full-motion video, or FMV. Classic gamers fondly recall FMV as an optimistic hybrid between gaming and film that was semi-common for a brief period in the ’90s as the industry attempted to suss out the Venn diagram of gamers and film enthusiasts. FMV adventure games employed the latest technology to use prerecorded footage of real actors and movie sets instead of 2D, hand-drawn pixelated environments.
Armed with six-figure ideas and D-list celebrity budgets, studios like Sierra invested heavily in games that aged poorly due to camp and cheese factor. For its time, the realistic technology was a strange juxtaposition with’s outlandish story, in which Gabriel discovers he’s the long-lost descendant of royal German witch hunters and inherits an old castle as his base to hunt werewolves .
What made things even more special was that, unexpectedly, the player switched to Grace’s perspective for a large portion of the game in order to solve the mystery. Here was a character that wasn’t a passive woman to be cared for or saved—instead, it was Grace herself who did the lion’s share of uncovering the secret werewolf behind the local disappearances.had an even more bizarre storyline than the previous ones, in which the two travel off to France to rescue an infant kidnapped by vampires.
Instead, she leaves him a goodbye letter and opts to go to a training school in a faraway land to hone her skills, hunt down supernatural beings, and presumably raise the child on her own. It’s a remarkable arc for any female character in any game made in any year, and especially for an Asian woman. Grace’s story turned the hero’s journey on its head.
As I finished the trilogy, the ’90s were coming to an end and I neared young adulthood, packing cardboard boxes for my new dorm life. I cleaned out my bedroom closet, examining shirts, posters, and fan books of some of my favorite heroines of an era: Xena, the Spice Girls, Daria. Though each of them meant something special to me, none seemed to inspire me as much as Grace Nakimura, the one who taught me that an Asian woman could be anything she wanted.
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