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Since Alex has Laser-Guided Amnesia, it's possible they don't know any of these things, either.

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In Code 7 you never learn anything about Alexs age, gender, race, nationality, etc.He or she is a Heroic Mime with no lines, the present day segments of the game are all shown in first person, and there are no mirrors so the player can't even see their character's reflection. Due to the main protagonist's death by Heroic Sacrifice in the previous game, the 'main character' of Black Flag is about as nameless and featureless a protagonist can get. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: All of the main Assassin's Creed games are actually simulations being experienced by someone from the present day, who needs to find something important in the memories.In the obscure vehicle combat game Auto Destruct, the agent is only known as Booth, and never speaks, nor is he shown in person.

If you manage to get a good look at it, you'll see it simply says 'ROOKIE'. Thing is, you have to work to see it, because you spend most of the game staring at your characters backside.

Interestingly, all the Ghostbusters wear easy-to-read nametags on their uniforms.There is also an in-story reason: the team is still very shaken up by what happened to the previous new recruit so they refuse to learn even your name to avoid emotional attachments. The player character in Ghostbusters: The Video Game is one of these, as Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis figured that was the best way for the jokes to work.Game's background history as well as some dialog (mostly with Talana) and its ending present the character as a young male. In the second game of the Star Control saga, the player character is only referred in second person, or at most third ( Young starship captain from Earth, alien, hunam, and the like).Only at the end of the first game did she get a confirmed gender and later a species, and her identity was only given any exploration in the later games. (Robot? Guy in Powered Armor? Who knew?) This caused some players to think 'Metroid' was the character's name. Samus Aran from Metroid started as a complete cipher in both person and motivation.While Link is still a silent protagonist, he has a backstory that's more fleshed out compared to his previous incarnations and many of the dialogue options greatly show off Link's personality. Taken to the next level in Breath of the Wild where Link's name is set in stone and cannot be changed due to the use of voice acting. A notable shift is in Twilight Princess where the name Link is pre-entered on the Hello, screen unlike earlier games where there is no default name and the field starts out blank. While Nintendo is still trying to retain some of Link's Featureless Protagonist qualities (the reason he is still a Heroic Mime), he seems to be growing out of this in the later games, especially with regards to his personality.

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This is most prevalent in the instruction manuals for A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening which are written using Second-Person Narration rather than referring to Link by name as Link. Giving him a distinctive, recurring costume probably didn't help. Ironically, he is now one of the most recognizable faces in all of gaming, endlessly tributed and/or parodied. in fact, that was the very reason he was named Link, because he was the 'link to the gameworld', simply a player avatar.

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Link from The Legend of Zelda series was originally meant to be this.

The later Overlords in other games are given some degree of Backstory, with the sequel starting him off as a Creepy Child along with several nicknames while the prequel Overlord: Dark Legend gives the Overlord the name Lord Gromgard though they still remain relatively faceless, wearing face-obscuring clothing before donning their armor. He's also never referred to by name by his former friend and colleagues. Besides being male, all his features are obscured and blurred out by his impressive helmet.

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