Representation, does it really matter?

Videogames have been the centre of social justice related criticism for quite some time now. Many articles have been published about Ubisoft’s lack of a female assassin in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Some even pointed out that there were more severed heads than female speakers during the E3 press conference. Even a game as seemingly innocent as Tomodachi Life got flak for not including same-sex relationships.