Author: Lauren

Name: Garrus Vakarian. Age: His age is never mentioned in the games. I can see him being in his early thirties.  First Encounter: Mass Effect. Best Bud: Garrus gets on well with pretty much everyone in the Normandy’s crew but Shepard, Tali, Kaiden and Liara appear to be the closest to him because they’ve known…

    Name: Tifa Lockhart. Age: 20. First Encountered: Final Fantasy VII. Best Bud: With a kind heart, Tifa has many friends. But Cloud would be her best buddy. They were not always close. When they were children, Tifa and Cloud hung around in different circles. It wasn’t untill they were older that Cloud realised how he felt for…

Name: John Marston. Age: His actual age is never mentioned, but John looks like he is in his mid to late thirties. First Encountered: Red Dead Redemption. Best Bud: John doesnt really have friends or buddies. Those he seen as his close allies left him for dead after a robbery. He does form a close…

Name: Elena Fisher. Age: Elena’s age is not mentioned in the Uncharted series, but perhaps late twenties, early thirties when we first meet her. First Encountered: We first meet Elena in Uncharted: Eye of Indra, a motion comic story. We only see her briefly. She makes her first real appearance in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Best Bud: Either…

Name: Guybrush Treepwood. Age: Guybrush is a teenager when we first meet him in Secret of Monkey Island. So by the latest Monkey Island instalment Guybrush is in his late twenties. First Encountered: The Secret of Monkey Island (1990). Best Bud: Guybrush has many friends! There’s Murray the evil skull, Wally, Meathook… that all? Okay…

Name: Yoshi. Age: Because Yoshi is a dinosaur, I can see him being quite old. But a very young dinosaur at heart! First Encountered: Super Mario World. The level was Yoshi’s Island 2. Best Bud: Mario! Yoshi is one of Mario’s closest and most loved friends, he looks up to Mario and you can see…

Name: Tidus. Age: 17 in Final Fantasy X, 19 in Final Fantasy X-2. First Encountered: Final Fantasy X. Best Bud: Wakku. The Blitzball captain takes Tidus under his wing after discovering him on the shores of Besaid Island. He teaches him the Yevon prayer and forms a brotherly bond with Tidus, who reminds him of…

Name: Wheatley Age: Unknown. Do robots age? First Encountered: Portal 2. Best Bud: Chell. Wheatley doesn’t have any other friends. Must be lonely being a robot monitor. Job: Monitoring the Extended Relaxation Center at Aperture Science and briefly becoming the core of Aperture Science. Likes: Chell. Power. Freedom. Dislikes: GLaDOS. Being called a moron. “Smelly” humans. Personality…