187:. On the subject of the attractiveness of Dusa and other characters in the game, Kasavin attributed this to Jen Zee, the game's character artist. He stated that the portrayal of Dusa and the rest "owe greatly to classical tradition," which Zee cared about. He added that they justified the gods being hot by virtue of them being gods. While she was originally a
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Dusa has received generally positive reception. Authors Jane
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Taijiro Yamanaka found Dusa to be a particularly attractive character, praising her voice acting for expressing her "hard-working personality" and commenting how her shyness made her feel cute. As part of a celebration of fictional asexual characters in television and video games for
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