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senegart
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This morning I started up the new Pokemon, and like the past couple generations it uses a "what do you look like" prompt in place of the old "Are you a Boy or a Girl?"

A lot of games are going this route, and while the body types shown are still a restrictive normative "masculine"/"feminine", overall I view it as a small positive step in the right direction to support trans, non-binary, and genderqueer folks of all sorts. And so it's pretty disappointing how quickly the game undermines that by immediately and transparently using "Look" selection as a full binary gender determination - I picked the "feminine" Look and within a few minutes I was getting addressed with "Miss", "daughter", "she/her", etc.

Games like Pokemon are stuck in a bizarre half-state of seemingly wanting to present a more inclusive experience for folks while also totally not knowing how to deliver on that in gameplay and writing.


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Yeah :(
When the leaks happened I ended up downloading it because I wanted to make sure of a few things before I ended up spending money on it(the extent of clothing customization and whether or not they'd just assume gender anyways) and yeah... it was kinda nice seeing that after the pre-set you could just pick basically anything, but while doing that it made me kinda feel "hm... if it's like this, why are there 8 options?" in the back of my head, and then the start of the game it's just a constant "miss miss miss miss" bomb, it felt really bad

the dialogue makes this really strange; I could have sworn it wasn't this egregious in Arceus (it just used your name a lot, if I recall correctly), but I went with [boy head] in this one and after the chara creation felt happy because of how long-hair androgynous the figure was, and then... kept being called Master by the professor guy. Which, as an antiquated expression with/without other connotations is one thing, but I was wondering what the other version would have been - somehow Miss feels so more gendered, somehow?