Main Character Design...

[Cake]

i mean...why does he look like a girl or is it a girl...i'm confused

[TheColdOne]

... what?

He just looks like an anime character of high school age. Not sure how you are confused on the gender unless you need hyper-masculine traits to know if someone is male.

[Spanda]

I hate his voice

[Zaan]

the character in in fact a Male seeing as there is no boobahs i think the art is aesthetically pleasing and the MC design is fine i am also voting for DJT not some woke clown. this is a silly question what kind of engagement are you looking for ? negativity ? just play it or don't play it this is how anime is and atlus design choices and i must say they are great

[Nyxtus]

First time with a JRPG?

[Kriss]

That's just Japanese MC

[Cake]

well i can tell Joker from persona was a male character but this one have a really feminine design...

[ShockedHearts]

does it matter? its just how he presents.

[shanmaria]

Originally posted by Spanda:

I hate his voice

his dub is pretty bad

[shanmaria]

it's a boy, i think he looks cute

[Emperor Fooble]

While I also despise the MC's ultra-feminine, skinny, wimpy design and laugh watching such a tiny person even try to swing a sword, most JRPG main characters are horrific for the same reasons, with Cloud Strife being a rare exception as an example.

But don't let it detract from an otherwise outstanding game, and if it is a dealbreaker, remember the main character in this (like every other character) is not a human being, so appearances and body traits don't necessarily transfer.

For all we know, every character is a hermaphrodite that reproduces asexually, has the strength of a silverback gorilla at one month old and the atmosphere is so oxygenated that everything actually has gigantism, and these 'people' are actually twenty meters tall.

[REBirthTheEdge]

The main character is an obvious japanese expy.

Japanese are usually perceived as shorter, weaker, girlier than the westerners by the westerner, but they kick their ass anyway.

Lesson of the day: Look can be deceiving, because no amount of muscle can trade for determination and will.

[DukeFavre]

Originally posted by Cake:

i mean...why does he look like a girl or is it a girl...i'm confused

Atlus had to create something in between male and female.

Like in Shin Megami Tensei V, it's a boy, but he looks like a girl.

I'm tired. Why can't we have the option to be male or female?. Long gone are the days we can play Persona 3 and pick Kotone Shiomi. ;_;

[Swimfan]

Originally posted by Cake:

i mean...why does he look like a girl or is it a girl...i'm confused

Easy answer: Women/Non-binary people can be gamers too and they did a very clever (/common) thing by giving us a a more metrosexual-looking character that helps all genders to identify with better.

And yes, I'm 110% fine with that. He's protag-kun and it's always a plus when protag-kun looks unique but not "too out there" (which he doesn't).

[Shrinkshooter]

Having male characters that look feminine or androgenous isn't anything new from Nippon Land, but it's usually thrown into something as "just something different" and normally isn't really common within a singular plot; one or two characters at most.

What made me raise my eyebrow is that there are 3 of these characters introduced one right after another within the first hour of the game: the protag, the prince, and More (who, from the cutscene, you would absolutely assume is a woman if you didn't hear his VA).

This is not a "problem" and I'm not complaining, but it definitely popped out at me and makes me wonder why. I'm half expecting Atlus to do this with another 3 characters within 6 hours of playtime. Atlus also did this with SMT V, but in that game it was just the protag, and therefore within the expected "ok we're just doing this rare thing that's something different" margins. I'm starting to wonder if some character designer at Atlus with a fetish for this kind of thing got promoted to a lead position or something.

[Raven Ranks]

Female option would have been nice. I don't understand why Atlus hates the idea of playing as a woman or at least having the option to. Females play video games now. It's okay.