I didn't pay much mind to this game because as much as I enjoyed Hitman WoA that last game told me the direction the company was going.
I watched someone play first light to see if it's worth checking out, and it looks like Uncharter and Hitman made a baby. I'm good, I can wait for a sale.
Then they get to the office and you see a black Moneypenny who is now Bond's Diana, and M who is some Indian lady in her early 40s, which makes no sense.
Anyways, I'm not getting this game until someone make a mod that fixes this and make it more accurate to source material.
And I'll ignore said mod and go for the mod where both of them are bottomless and hot.
This is maybe the most retarded cope. As if stories are things we find out in the woods rather than things deliberately created by people who make conscious decisions about their content. This is like when people make excuses for girl bosses because "the story explains it". It's not hard to write a narrative excusing or rationalizing every leftist idea in existence. Properly setting up your feminist payoffs doesn't make them any less feminist.
Judy Dench's M stripped Pierce Brosnan's Bond down to his core and he was fine with it. Their dynamic was pivotal during his run and their arc together is what held his films together. In the game Ponsonby sort of takes up that role, M is much more like the Ralph Fiennes version and is focused on the job above all else.
You could maybe be onto something with Moneypenny being a field agent instead of doing Ponsonby's role, but you can blame Daniel Craig's era for that and the game works just fine with her as is.
IOI could have screwed up the game easily and still made bank. They didn't though.
It's fun and throwaway. And much better than any of the Daniel Craig movies.