True, I dislike Supernatural, or at least its writers and executives for their repeated practice of queer baiting where they have their writers give the (lead) characters some or even many scenes with ambiguously queer content while never ever following trough and making open statements that the scenes are not ambiguous at all and the characters really are super-straight.
But expecting me to just get immediately over the tropes and expectations Supernatural sets in a game that is so clearly inspired by it that’s going to require more and better empirical evidence then what I saw in the rather limited “trailer” TSSL linked. Especially since Supernatural is bad enough with the queer baiting and flamewars over it that it gives rise to such crap as this. For the “straight” answers to that just trawl Reddit yourself.
I never said anything about “messing it up”, but unlike TBW OTH does not seem to be (primarily) a romance game, which means the romance options will be more limited and that it becomes correspondingly less likely that there will be one between them that is satisfying for everyone. Again, going by Supernatural most of the romances seem to be flings and the only prospect for a long term male one (if the writers actually decide to ever follow through would seem to be the jerkass “angel” who wouldn’t be my cup of tea for an ro). While I liked the first couple of seasons of Supernatural I got tired of the constant queer-baiting and stopped watching it after a couple of seasons to tell the truth.
In any case, like I said before, I think the real star of OTH is and should be the mc’s sibling and our mc’s interactions with them, which does mean the ro’s will have to take second stage to that. If there’s a gay male ro I like in that game then great, but I don’t treat it as a romance game and I expect, particularly if it has a limited main cast that my mc would be more likely then not to remain single.
I have full confidence that what gay romance there is going to be will be well-written but if there are only one or two gay male ro’s to begin with that does rather limit the possibility there might be one I really like.
Don’t get me wrong if the author can avoid the worst pitfalls of Supernatural I’m still excited, just less excited then I would have been for the alternative.
My excitement for this is now comparable to how excited I was for this WIP, where there was explicitly not going to be any romance but there were promising relationships. I particularly liked and was looking forward to the one between the mc and their brother in the flashbacks and hopefully those of the mc and his new “brother in spirit”, Eli in the present. Alternatively had it gone forward there would also have been the mysterious number 16.