Reception
April Ryan (sometimes, along with her Dreamfall counterpart Zoë Castillo) is considered one of the most memorable characters in the history of adventure games. Although she is represented with attributes of a feminized sex object, she is also part of a trend of strong, beautiful women in a variety of media that do not depend on men to achieve heroic deeds. She has been compared to Tomb Raider protagonist Lara Croft in that respect; April shows less prominent physical feminine attributes than Lara, but more feminine psychological traits as contrasted with Lara's masculine connotations like aggressiveness and force. Hamilton's performance has been praised as "superb" and capturing the "inflection nuances that allow us to believe in April's growth as a woman."
In 2000, Eurogamer nominated April for the annual Gaming Globes awards in the category Female Lead Character. She was also included on the list of 50 greatest female video characters by Tom's Games in 2007, and ranked as 61st on the list of best heroes in entertainment by UGO.com in 2010.
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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