>>56418316this is possible, and honestly i think it makes the most sense from a player perspective. sometimes i hate the look of one of the two protagonists, but i don't necessarily want to play pokemon as the opposite gender so i'll concede.
this way, you pick the character design you like best, and it doesn't affect dialogue.
if you want to be cool and take this a step farther, you could let the player choose if their rival is brendan or may in an RSE style game where the rival's gender is based on the player's choice in vanilla. player can use the more feminine character design, but their rival can still be May. obviously coding this would be harder than not, but it's just an idea, anyway.
ultimately nobody loses anything with this system, people are just pissed off to be pissed off. it's just identity politics bullshit. "um... the left likes pronouns! woke game!!!!" as if that's actual criticism.
it's a kids' game, who cares what the political affiliation of the coders are as long as the games aren't some political narrative? nobody bitched about Kojima's games being left-leaning anti-war propaganda pieces during the multiple decades that he's been making them, but pokemon being more gender-neutral is too far? fucking clowns.
these retards love the tomboy girlfriend meme, but when a game's player selection is actually inclusive of tomboy types, people get pissed because they don't ACTUALLY like tomboys.
