I've been posting around this article, because I think we should all get behind Jade. Hopefully she can do better in the Character Battle next year.

It also sums up why I like character, not to mention some scathing comments about Samua Aran. Digg it and show some love!

It's over here.

Also I'm glad to have found a place that shows love for BGAE

Great blog post there. I especially liked his comparison to Metroid's Samus. So true.

His facts about the JADE engine are a bit off though. The Prince of Persia games used a heavily-modified version of JADE. That wasn't the end of it though. Both King Kong and Raving Rabbids were built on the JADE engine.

I actually never fully aprreciated the fact that Jade was a non-sexualised female character until now. I didn't think it was THAT impossible for normal female characters to exist in video games.

Also I cant believe how much investement went into the Jade engine and that it was all in vein. That was a good engine, I think it may have had trouble playing music though because I noticed that every game Ive played that uses that engine seems to have no music most of the time.

I think they may have overated her character in this article. I never quite got the impression she was a strong, inteligent.... character. In fact in the English version of the game, I think the voice acting was bit quircky Still loved her character model though