Lost Ark players are roasting female characters’ walking animations

While some of Lost Ark’s earlier story beats include travelling through plague-stricken lands, helping innocents, and besting giant demonic beasts, it’s the bold attitude with which women characters are animated to walk in-game that has been sticking out for many players. Well, those that can get into the MMO, anyway.

During cutscenes, female characters walk with an exaggerated swagger that sees their hips move from side to side quite dramatically – there’s some real attitude going on. Even when you’re freely roaming the map, your female character floats across the screen with a dainty little prance instead, which has the effect of shifting their character from someone who evokes a femme fatale type to more of a damsel in distress.

After seeing oodles of clips surface online, I made a character to see it for myself and, yep, there’s some serious attitude going on there. Even when my assassin merely needs to shuffle back one or two steps, the dramatic, femme fatale-style walk is still there. It’s frequently hilarious how it collides with the drama of a few scenes, too. A merchant cries out for help at one point as all of their possessions are on fire. What’s supposed to be a frantic rescue of their livelihood turns into something akin to a weird fashion ad as I daintily skip to the rescue with a bucket of water in hand.

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