Daniel vs Mandus

[Alardem]

I'm starting to notice a pattern here. People who like Daniel for being a wimp are mostly girls, whereas guys dislike him for that exact same reason. It's kinda funny.

It gets tiring to see the same archetype on the strong, crazy, hyper masculine protagonist we usually get. They're boring. Daniel is someone who actually has human weaknesses and breaks that type. He's not the status-quo hero shooting up 'da bad guyz'. That's why he's awesome.

Neither are any of the other characters in Frictional's games - they're all bound by their inability to fight back. (Barring Phillip, who isn't much of a fighter.) The annoying thing about Daniel's fear is that, rather than make me empathize with him better, I'm irritated by him because he inexplicably treats the darkness as dangerous when the gameplay mechanics actually make it SAFE to be in the dark. This disconnect doesn't appear when I play as Justine/Mandus/Phil.