I agree it looks sorta silly, but so can most character customizers that have been in games for like 15 years that have allowed you to put weird female hair on your dude. It isn't even a woke thing this has been allowed in video games for a long time just to make your characters look silly and horrendous :P
I just have trouble caring about that one given that is in about 50% of games that have had a character creator had this option since as long as I even remember.
Heck I remember old MS DOS RPGS that you could pick a gender but then have a picture of an opposite gender just normally without any importing or anything. This isn't anything new.
Maybe but I am just not seeing where that is in this game. I just played through most of it, I just beat the elite 4 but haven't gotten to the final crater in the middle of the map maybe it is all there, but this has had less woke stuff than I have seen in any game in recent years. There is maybe one somewhat androgynous character in the entire game but that isn't anything new even for pokemon nor most japanese forms of entertainment, and it isn't even in your face, nor does it seem like they are trying to make anything of it and feels more like just it being sorta japanese style anime than anything woke.
Maybe I missed a random bit of dialog SOMEWHERE but I sure as heck didn't see it. Nothing of the character creator is that out of the ordinary even as of like 10 years ago + compared to video games with character creators even back then.
Look, I don't deny that they probably will try and push it woke but if anything I saw much more woke stuff in sword and shield than this game that had two somewhat androgynous characters at most. If anything this is pulled back less woke from sword/shield and those characters almost did feel more trans than generically androgynous like the one in this game.
There are reasons to have complaints about this game and the direction pokemon has gone, but this is just silly and not there. I don't even like a lot of the way the visual style has gone, but I can hardly call it woke for what they have done.
I agree it looks sorta silly, but so can most character customizers that have been in games for like 15 years that have allowed you to put weird female hair on your dude. It isn't even a woke thing this has been allowed in video games for a long time just to make your characters look silly and horrendous :P
I just have trouble caring about that one given that is in about 50% of games that have had a character creator had this option since as long as I even remember.
Heck I remember old MS DOS RPGS that you could pick a gender but then have a picture of an opposite gender just normally without any importing or anything. This isn't anything new.
the problem is the fact that they are going in that more woke direction in general.
Maybe but I am just not seeing where that is in this game. I just played through most of it, I just beat the elite 4 but haven't gotten to the final crater in the middle of the map maybe it is all there, but this has had less woke stuff than I have seen in any game in recent years. There is maybe one somewhat androgynous character in the entire game but that isn't anything new even for pokemon nor most japanese forms of entertainment, and it isn't even in your face, nor does it seem like they are trying to make anything of it and feels more like just it being sorta japanese style anime than anything woke.
Maybe I missed a random bit of dialog SOMEWHERE but I sure as heck didn't see it. Nothing of the character creator is that out of the ordinary even as of like 10 years ago + compared to video games with character creators even back then.
Look, I don't deny that they probably will try and push it woke but if anything I saw much more woke stuff in sword and shield than this game that had two somewhat androgynous characters at most. If anything this is pulled back less woke from sword/shield and those characters almost did feel more trans than generically androgynous like the one in this game.
There are reasons to have complaints about this game and the direction pokemon has gone, but this is just silly and not there. I don't even like a lot of the way the visual style has gone, but I can hardly call it woke for what they have done.