Can you imagine anything worse, in the realm of gaming, then playing as a pair of literal millennial girl writers? I expend a decent amount of effort actively avoiding the shit products of millennial girl boss authors. These are the exact people who have fucked fantasy and sci-fi to hell over the last 10+ years. Now they want me to skip right over their painfully terrible self-inserts to play as the actual retards themselves?
The game looks very technically competent. I'm sure the gameplay is fine. But I don't need to tolerate horrible characters, dialogue, and story in my video games. I'm not "missing out" by skipping this shit, same as I'm not missing out when I bypass games created by people who hate me. There are already more good games in existence than any one person could ever fully play. But even if this were the only game in the world, I'd rather quit the hobby than suffer through these characters and this writing.
At this point, it doesn’t even matter if they are girl bosses or not. I’m straight up not interested in the female perspective anymore. I don’t care about their stories, so it doesn’t matter how “well” they are told. The only female protagonists I can stomach anymore are stoic non-masculine asexual autistics like Frieren. If the character can’t be replaced 1 to 1 with a man, if the narrative or themes have anything to do with the “female experience”, then I. Don’t. Care.
Basically I have the same tolerance for female protagonists in media as I have for female comedians. The moment there’s a single joke about your dating life or your vagina, I’m out.
I hear you. I was watching Chopped and they were introducing the chefs and got to a girl one and the first thing she says is, "They are going to underestimate me because I'm a smiley girl."
And Chopped and the Food Network are openly progressive. So even when you give women equal footing, they still believe they are being oppressed or held back.
I ended up yelling at the television in a diatribe about how women are given multiple advantages and still complain
Two female protags in a Japanese game that isn't by a big JP publisher tho just means more tiddies and tend to do well.
e.g. Stellar Blade