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I felt motivated to post this after seeing the cover of Odssey again because it does highlight an issue with the box of both it and Syndicate.

Female characters. Allow me to explain.

Syndicate gives us 2 protagonists that have about equal play time in the game, twin siblings. And yet Jacob still gets top billing on the cover, on the main front cover Jacob sits front and centre while Evie stands amoung the several generic characters behind him, on the specal edition front cover, which I have, Evie isn't present at all.  On the back at least 2 screenshots are Jacobs and I can't tell which is the focus of the other one.

Odessy is worse

In Odessy you play as either Alexios or Kassandra, with the one you don't play as being an antagonist. You would think that the cover therefore would reflect that yes? No. The front cover shows a picture of Alexios, on the back all the screenshots are from Alexios gameplay the only image of Kassandra I saw was on the bit that mentions you pick from 2 protagonists! To add to the rediculousness the Novelisation, as is noted in the wiki, which uses it's narrative for the article, states categorically that the canon protagonist is Kassandra meaning that if you playithe game through the canonical storyline, the cover shows one of the bad guys and almost omits the protagonist entirerly.

The fact that Evie is an equal protagonist to her brother, the fact that if you choose her Kassandra is the sole protagonist, these are signs that Ubisoft's writers and bigwigs are aware and accepting that women are equal to men and deserve equal representation, someone explain that to their artists.<ac_metadata title="Syndicate/Odyssey cover issue, representation"> </ac_metadata>