So let's talk about that Erik character . . .

[Walrus Beard]

I saw someone saying this is a trans character. I was immediately suspicious, and I went to look up some English gameplay. Sure enough, the voice in English sounds very feminine. The voice actor is Casey Mongillo, a non-binary who uses they/them pronouns. Based on Casey's voice and appearance, I say this is a biological woman, and she was recruited to voice Erik because of course they have to shove their activism into everything. In Japanese, it is very obvious by the voice that Erik is male. He is a typical Japanese pretty boy. These characters are quite common in Japanese entertainment, and there is no agenda here on the part of the creators. My recommendation is to play this game in Japanese with subtitles. The original Japanese dub will always better capture the intentions of the creators, especially if you know a little bit of Japanese.

Edit: It is clear to me that a lot of people are not actually READING the original post before they comment. Keeping up with this thread is exhausting, and I grow tired of correcting those with low reading comprehension. I am unsubscribing from this discussion. Knock yourselves out.

[Kalrim Frosthill]

literally not mentioned at all in game, the only people putting their politics in the game are you guys. literally who cares, Erik is a dude who sounds feminine and that's it.

you had to go actively digging and researching the voice actor to find something for you to be offended at.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by Jondalf:

Lmao what? Erik is very clearly a dude. The game makes it very clear, and gives no indication that they wouldn't be.

Right? I'm part of the itty-bitty rainbow flag committee and I didn't even guess that Eric was anything other than a typical young male.

[Veylox]

I had to do a double take to even figure out which character these LGBT clowns were talking about

The guy is the most basic japanese pretty boy, straight out of a final fantasy game, at no point does he have anything to do with trans. Looks like a boy, is referred to as a male, has a male voice.

Localizers doing horrendous stuff behind companies' back is another problem entirely

[disabilitygamer]

I just think that the character overall is annoying, I don't really care what you are. If I don't like you then I don't like you

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by Veylox:

I had to do a double take to even figure out which character these LGBT clowns were talking about

The guy is the most basic japanese pretty boy, straight out of a final fantasy game, at no point does he have anything to do with trans. Looks like a boy, is referred to as a male, has a male voice.

Localizers doing horrendous stuff behind companies' back is another problem entirely

I played in Japanese from the beginning, and I honestly didn't give Erik a second thought until I saw someone on this forum saying he was trans. That's why I decided to do some digging and I simply posted my thoughts and findings here. As I expected, the thread has devolved into a sh*t show. Should have known.

[takuya]

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

Originally posted by Veylox:

I had to do a double take to even figure out which character these LGBT clowns were talking about

The guy is the most basic japanese pretty boy, straight out of a final fantasy game, at no point does he have anything to do with trans. Looks like a boy, is referred to as a male, has a male voice.

Localizers doing horrendous stuff behind companies' back is another problem entirely

I played in Japanese from the beginning, and I honestly didn't give Erik a second thought until I saw someone on this forum saying he was trans. That's why I decided to do some digging and I simply posted my thoughts and findings here. As I expected, the thread has devolved into a sh*t show. Should have known.

erik's japanese VA is saiga mitsuki, a woman. glad you had no problems telling that erik was a male in japanese when his VA is not. :) have a nice day

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by takuya:

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

I played in Japanese from the beginning, and I honestly didn't give Erik a second thought until I saw someone on this forum saying he was trans. That's why I decided to do some digging and I simply posted my thoughts and findings here. As I expected, the thread has devolved into a sh*t show. Should have known.

erik's japanese VA is saiga mitsuki, a woman. glad you had no problems telling that erik was a male in japanese when his VA is not. :) have a nice day

Cool. Man or woman, at least he sounds male and there is not doubt. Not so with the English voice though.

[Demonsouls1993]

Originally posted by Null:

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

If you have to ask that question, then you are not paying attention to what trans people are doing. They are hated for good reasons.

All of the trans people in my life, who I love dearly, have never done anything hateful, evil or even distasteful that I've seen, when talking about things related to them being trans. In my experience, the past few years people have just been dogpiling on them as a very obvious scapegoat for the big tech surveillance state that we're living in nowadays.

yet they do/say nothing to stop people in that community from doing what they are doing so they are part of the problem

[takuya]

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

Originally posted by takuya:

erik's japanese VA is saiga mitsuki, a woman. glad you had no problems telling that erik was a male in japanese when his VA is not. :) have a nice day

Cool. Man or woman, at least he sounds male and there is not doubt. Not so with the English voice though.

nice cope dude, i'm sorry you're so insecure with your own identity that you need to attack others for being comfortable in theirs. there's no coherence here, just hate, and i hope people report you for it because we all just want to enjoy a video game. go cut wood and leave everyone alone.

[Veylox]

Originally posted by takuya:

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

I played in Japanese from the beginning, and I honestly didn't give Erik a second thought until I saw someone on this forum saying he was trans. That's why I decided to do some digging and I simply posted my thoughts and findings here. As I expected, the thread has devolved into a sh*t show. Should have known.

erik's japanese VA is saiga mitsuki, a woman. glad you had no problems telling that erik was a male in japanese when his VA is not. :) have a nice day

You clearly know nothing about her if you haven't yet figured out she plays male characters, not trans.

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by takuya:

Originally posted by Walrus Beard:

Cool. Man or woman, at least he sounds male and there is not doubt. Not so with the English voice though.

nice cope dude, i'm sorry you're so insecure with your own identity that you need to attack others for being comfortable in theirs. there's no coherence here, just hate, and i hope people report you for it because we all just want to enjoy a video game. go cut wood and leave everyone alone.

I want to just enjoy video games as well, but that's kind of difficult when games these days are stuffed full of activism and real world issues. The point of this thread was to tell people who think Erik is someone on the rainbow spectrum that he is just a typical pretty boy character and there's nothing weird going on with him.

[Jondalf]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by Jondalf:

Lmao what? Erik is very clearly a dude. The game makes it very clear, and gives no indication that they wouldn't be.

Right? I'm part of the itty-bitty rainbow flag committee and I didn't even guess that Eric was anything other than a typical young male.

Honestly, I felt the voice acting was chosen to make him sound a little more frail and bookish, you know, emphasizing the scholar aspect in comparison to a hunter. I thought they did a good job.

[Ihpkmn]

Originally posted by Veg:

Originally posted by Null:

Why do you people hate trans people so much? I've never seen a reason other than that they're out of the ordinary. It really bothers me.

Never had a problem with them until it turned out there was one of them behind every movement to shove woke crap into my games. Pattern recognition is a real pain.

Do me a favor and define 'woke' for me. I've yet to see someone who can say what 'woke' is.

[Walrus Beard]

Originally posted by Veg:

Originally posted by Null:

Why do you people hate trans people so much? I've never seen a reason other than that they're out of the ordinary. It really bothers me.

Never had a problem with them until it turned out there was one of them behind every movement to shove woke crap into my games. Pattern recognition is a real pain.

For real. Take some points. I have plenty.

[Volkswagen das auto]

Originally posted by Pop the Opps:

Calling someone a Nazi is wild

That's all they know "nazi" "phobe" "racist" "chud" the four horseman of transpocalypse.

For anyone who has different thinking, I mean their side is very inclusive(for anyone who fits the lgtv+ specturm.....and they just wanna live (aka shove their propaganda everywhere, and don't we dare speak out..)