High Stakes, Higher Boots: Here Are Horror Games’ Best-Dressed Women

While the female horror-game protagonist fends off demons and other predators, she is also serving looks. This is the rose-covered cross women are made to bear: We must inspire others with our appearance even while covered in gore. Within the broader scope of patriarchal society, this expectation, which then bleeds into fashionable horror games like Silent Hill 3 and the Fatal Frame series, is unfair. Women actively experiencing horror-game scenarios (a hateful god in Silent Hill 3, homicidal spirits in Fatal Fram…