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.

[Velber]

whoever said the VA was the same as the Evangelion dub's shinji, you are definitly right i just now realized they have the same whiny voice just Eriks is older and less depressed compared to Shinji's

[KingOfFriedChicken]

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I don't use english dub so i have no clue what's this whole transformer nonsense here is about.

The Japanese voice actor is female to lol

[Star47]

Playing with English VA is a crime...

[sugmaballs]

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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.

this is honestly funny. Dude looks more like michael jackson after he got his skin bleached. He is still very much a dude

[Velber]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Star47:

Playing with English VA is a crime...

stop your weeburai gatekeeping

[Croc]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Killance:

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You just transphobic. Plain and simple.

Ah yes, the good ol' "anyone who doesn't agree with me is homophobic, transphobic, racist, nazi, shill, blah blah blah."

Remind me again what happened in 2016 and 2024 for the elections when that was screamed at people? Mainly the younger generations who were told everything is their fault because they were born male and white?

blah blah blah yap yap yap

Why do you hate trans people? What is this good reason you have?

[Posivated]

This sure is an interesting thread of a bunch of people attempting to convince themselves of something just so they can enjoy and support a game with differing views than them. Thank god this game is insanely successful in spite of all the loons who would usually shout to the roof tops about how they aren't going to support games like this, except if it's good of course, morals and your own beliefs be damned lol.

[Killance]

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Ah yes, the good ol' "anyone who doesn't agree with me is homophobic, transphobic, racist, nazi, shill, blah blah blah."

Remind me again what happened in 2016 and 2024 for the elections when that was screamed at people? Mainly the younger generations who were told everything is their fault because they were born male and white?

blah blah blah yap yap yap

Why do you hate trans people? What is this good reason you have?

I don't hate people, I hate the actions of individuals. Gay, straight, trans or the colorful rainbow in-between doesn't bother me. Guilt tripping a generation because they're white males, forcing games to no longer continue production because of flops by forcing inclusion(Dragon Age is one, but man is there a list of games forever shelved by this), attacking others simply because they have no want to see it everywhere and baiting people into responses because you don't like their opinion while hoping they get banned.

That's what I hate. Gaslighting me, along with others, literally proves it and proves why people are hardcore moving towards the right side of the spectrum for everything. They're tired of it, im tired of it and the drama is just nonstop with it.

"BuT bAuLdErS gate 3!1!1!"

But Concord, Dragon Age: Veilguard, Mass Effect Andromeda, Suicide Squad, Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Shadows and the list goes on. And no, color of skin isn't what I ever complained about. I already know someone will put words in my mouth about it so I'm making my statement here.

[Rambling Gamer]

Bart simpson was voiced by a women, must mean that his character in the show was trans right?

[Fyyyyysh]

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This is so crazy. Its funny how all the anti-social justice warriors ironically became obsessed and triggered with any form of diversity and make it their whole personality down to making an-anti woke game list.

There is diversity, and then there is ruining an entire series of media (games, movies, series) by making everything censored and compliant with the LGBT community.

Because in 2025, it is a crime to release content that doesn't have a transgender character.

Back in the 1990s, we didn’t have any problem with diversity, but nowadays, it is being forced down everyone's throats.

So yes, I personally have a problem with that.

Keep your personal life personal, because I honestly don't care if you married a woman or a fridge.

“Back in the 1990s we didn’t have a problem with diversity”

Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me?

Lots of Japanese media released in the 1990s in US and Europe got censored and had their LGBT characters censored or rewritten to be relatives or friends in localisation (Sailor moon anime for example). Even persona 2 had localisation issues due to the fact that it had significant gay romance option.

LGBT characters started being featured in western media properly only in late 2000s, before that we had some rare outliners (fallout 2 and temple of elemental evil) but beside them everything was 100% straight.

So claiming that 1990s were accepting of LGBT people in media is completely false.

[Fyyyyysh]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Casval Zem Daikun:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Varagonax:

I know they aren't reading this but I hope they do.

Even if the game has NB or Trans VAs, that does NOT immediately equate to woke rep. EVEN IF THERE IS REP, why does it bother you so much? Who cares THAT much about these things? Games arent bad because they have alphabet mafia characters, they are bad because producers limited the time spent on games, the writers are low in quality, the team leads do not lead effectively.

In any case, not every game has to be about you or for you. Let other people see themselves in video games, you've had the butchers cut of every game for decades. Its time to let other people have the same experiences we love. Not everything is made for you, and that is ok. You wouldnt ♥♥♥♥♥ because a car company released a car you dont like, you just wouldnt get that car. Why are video games any different.

I'm more curious why you need to "see yourself" in a game.
Does this mean I shouldn't play games with a female protag since I'm not female?

I mean it’s simple for me, I like seeing romance in media and I’m gay, so I like seeing gay romance in media (I don’t mind straight romance but I obviously prefer gay) something which gaming unfortunately lacks. As pretty much 100% of games where romance isn’t just a short optional thing (like in most western RPGs) but instead it is more complex, well developed and tied closely to the main story - feature only straight romance. (Like many JRPGs for example)

While I know that it will stay that way due to obvious financial reasons (market for straight romance is much bigger) it doesn’t change the fact that it’s something I’d enjoy seeing in gaming and I’m disappointed by the lack of it.

[Kobi Blade]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Kobi Blade:

There is diversity, and then there is ruining an entire series of media (games, movies, series) by making everything censored and compliant with the LGBT community.

Because in 2025, it is a crime to release content that doesn't have a transgender character.

Back in the 1990s, we didn’t have any problem with diversity, but nowadays, it is being forced down everyone's throats.

So yes, I personally have a problem with that.

Keep your personal life personal, because I honestly don't care if you married a woman or a fridge.

“Back in the 1990s we didn’t have a problem with diversity”

Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me?

Lots of Japanese media released in the 1990s in US and Europe got censored and had their LGBT characters censored or rewritten to be relatives or friends in localisation (Sailor moon anime for example). Even persona 2 had localisation issues due to the fact that it had significant gay romance option.

LGBT characters started being featured in western media properly only in late 2000s, before that we had some rare outliners (fallout 2 and temple of elemental evil) but beside them everything was 100% straight.

So claiming that 1990s were accepting of LGBT people in media is completely false.

No, I am not kidding; I am very serious. What big companies think has nothing to do with public opinion.

I've never seen anyone in my entire life care about whether their next-door neighbor is dating a woman or a fridge, and we had no lack of LGBT media in the 90s[www.flickchart.com]

Similarly, big companies currently believe that all we want is rainbow flags in every media. If they don't comply, they fear being persecuted by the LGBT community.

If that isn't forcing an agenda on others, I don't know what is.

People have the right to be annoyed when, everywhere we look, there's a transgender character just for the sake of it.

Nine times out of ten, it simply makes no sense and is just there to keep the LGBT community quiet.

[Fyyyyysh]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Kobi Blade:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Fyyyyysh:

“Back in the 1990s we didn’t have a problem with diversity”

Are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kidding me?

Lots of Japanese media released in the 1990s in US and Europe got censored and had their LGBT characters censored or rewritten to be relatives or friends in localisation (Sailor moon anime for example). Even persona 2 had localisation issues due to the fact that it had significant gay romance option.

LGBT characters started being featured in western media properly only in late 2000s, before that we had some rare outliners (fallout 2 and temple of elemental evil) but beside them everything was 100% straight.

So claiming that 1990s were accepting of LGBT people in media is completely false.

No, I am not kidding; I am very serious. What big companies think has nothing to do with public opinion.

I've never seen anyone in my entire life care about whether their next-door neighbor is dating a woman or a fridge, and we had no lack of LGBT media in the 90s[www.flickchart.com]

Similarly, big companies currently believe that all we want is rainbow flags in every media. If they don't comply, they fear being persecuted by the LGBT community.

If that isn't forcing an agenda on others, I don't know what is.

People have the right to be annoyed when, everywhere we look, there's a transgender character just for the sake of it.

Nine times out of ten, it simply makes no sense and is just there to keep the LGBT community quiet.

There were indeed some movies (books
too), but other forms of media were still generally absent of LGBT characters, gaming in particular and everything that wasn’t strictly seen as adult media was heavily censored, like anime I mentioned earlier.

As to people not caring about gay people, that’s just untrue, considering how stuff like conversion therapy or sexual orientation based job discrimination were fully legal. Not to mention anti-sodomy laws still being a thing in some states and had some strong supporters. And that’s US. My country was even more anti-gay back then.

As to today. I honestly don’t see this forcing “LGBT” everywhere you are talking about. If you look at games, there’s still plenty of games with 0 LGBT characters and when it comes to those who have lgbt characters, they are usually just some side npcs. Only lgbt main character in gaming I can think of is Ellie from the last of us.

[SpiralD]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Fyyyyysh:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Casval Zem Daikun:

I'm more curious why you need to "see yourself" in a game.
Does this mean I shouldn't play games with a female protag since I'm not female?

I mean it’s simple for me, I like seeing romance in media and I’m gay, so I like seeing gay romance in media (I don’t mind straight romance but I obviously prefer gay) something which gaming unfortunately lacks. As pretty much 100% of games where romance isn’t just a short optional thing (like in most western RPGs) but instead it is more complex, well developed and tied closely to the main story - feature only straight romance. (Like many JRPGs for example)

While I know that it will stay that way due to obvious financial reasons (market for straight romance is much bigger) it doesn’t change the fact that it’s something I’d enjoy seeing in gaming and I’m disappointed by the lack of it.

Great post.
I found this insightful although I can attack it from so many different angles.
I won't bother.

[Menagerie]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Kobi Blade:

People have the right to be annoyed when, everywhere we look, there's a transgender character just for the sake of it.

Gotta ask. Why does it actually upset you so much?
I have an issue with badly written games. The problem is that they're badly written, not whether someone is gay/straight, cis/trans, white/black.

So why is it that you seem so horrified that trans people might exist in games? Why is that the issue rather than studios producing lazily written content?

In this instance, the game doesn't have a trans character in it. It has one non-binary voice actor in the English dub. The idea of the character's gender never comes up.

So your problem can't actually be a trans character in a game. There isn't one here. Your issue would appear to be that a trans person is making a living by getting a job as a voice actor.