Bad writing is bad

[hotmess.exe]

eh… drama ≠ good writing. and not all stories can or should tackle certain realistic themes, nor do all writers necessarily have any business attempting to. escapism isn’t inherently bad; though i do understand wanting a diversity in portrayals of realism on this format. (meaningless MC customization comes to mind.) though in that same vein,

i do find this worth pointing out, though i don’t think for the same reasons as you:

@Sandro

1: All characters with whom the player’s character can have romantic relationships are bi.

(I like to be able to choose any person to have a relationship, but it seemed more real if characters who thinks they are straight got into conflict with theyself for starting to have romantic feelings for the player’s character who is of the same gender.

All characters being bi and being aware of it seems to be just lazy and, as I said, wastes drama and character development)

i’ll quote myself in a different thread on this:

@hotmess.exe

the published games and WIPs get a lot of praise for being LGBT+ inclusive and that is fair and I wouldn’t argue otherwise. but, possibly unpopular opinion time: I think they are, as a whole, getting a little too much credit for being representative. making ROs accessible to all genders is absolutely not the same as queer representation. the number of games where all MCs can date an RO, but simply do so with a pronoun swap far outnumber the games that bother to make any meaningful distinction through, y’know, story-telling.

i don’t think this format necessarily* needs more “i’m straight but omg maybe im not uwu” storytelling. there’s nothing wrong with confident/comfortable bi characters? but more realistic and nuanced portrayals of bi and pan romance options would be dope. 'cause romance pronoun swaps are startin to feel lazy to me, ngl…

*lol i had to add ‘necessarily’ because my own WIP is going to have both straight and gay takes on this