

Sure, he's a bit of a jerk to the people around him, much as Knight was, but it's a different kind of jerkiness. Rector isn't just a clone of Knight, though. "What can you tell me about voodoo?" "Eh?" "No, never mind." But with the launch of Moebius, he's got company: protagonist Malachi Rector is one of the most brilliantly flawed protagonists I've had the pleasure of controlling in quite some time.

So beloved is Knight as a character to gamers of a certain age that Jensen is working on a beautiful-looking remake of his first adventure Sins of the Fathers to mark its 20th anniversary, in fact. Gabriel Knight is perhaps her most well-known and most enduring creation in this style. Jane Jensen's writing has many strengths, but one of the things she's best at is creating "likeable jerk" protagonists.

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