News Aaron Birch 20 Mar 2013 - 04:59

Capcom's Remember Me was rejected by several publishers due to the lack of a male hero, it's been revealed...

In an interview with Penny Arcade, Remember Me's creative director, Jean-Max Morris has revealed that the game was offered to many different publishers, and that a few turned it down because of the female lead before Capcom snapped it up.

Despite the game's heroine being central to the whole story, and fitting in with the feel of the game, some simply refused to believe that a female character could sell games. When asked by Penny Arcade why the game's central star was a woman, he replied, “It was not a decision. It was something that just felt right from the beginning. It's one of those things that we never looked at from a pure, cold marketing perspective because that would have endangered the consistency of the whole game.