'Deathloop' and the Radical Necessity of 2 Black Leads

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In a video games industry where whiteness is too often the presumed default, giving Deathloop two Black lead characters didn’t just feel right to the team at Arkane games—it felt necessary. (From 2021)

Game director Dinga Bakaba was discussing the game's cover with the team and thought the main character should be Black, if the cover was going to have a lot of characters with one primary character in the center. Bakaba is of African and French descent and is intimately familiar with racism, particularly in Europe where Arkane is based.Playstation UK

"It’s nice to have that kind of fan base," Bakaba said. "They tend to defend our creative choices. Due to my own background, it’s sometimes excruciating to see those things still discussed in 2021. Couldn’t we be past that? Again, I know it’s the reality." "The last piece of the project, beyond the time loop and this new world, was the relationship between Colt and Julianna," Bakaba said. This is how Julianna started to stand out and become Colt's main antagonist.

 

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