Just wanted to say I love the existence of the gender-flip, it’s what drew me to Choice of Games in the first place. I love what it can do to characters.
I’m not a fan of characters that have their orientations match the protagonist’s gender. I’d much prefer characters to be bi, and acknowledged as such. Bisexuality is real, and I don’t like the idea that bisexual characters are less real. There’s nothing stopping bisexual characters from rejecting you for other reasons than your gender.
Admittedly in Choice of Robots I’d have rather Josh just rejected a male protagonist as opposed to the weird situation that we did have occur. Wherein we can be told that Josh is attracted to women who’re snappy dressers, doesn’t care that a band is trying to attract a GLBTQ audience (and doesn’t seem to even consider he might be part of that audience), confesses how he’d really love a female companion-bot that would serve as a housewife and act in ways he couldn’t expect a real woman to, and in general have absolutely no indication that Josh has any sort of attraction towards men. Well apart from how he can do all that in a playthrough where you’re a male character that’s actually dated him. (Yes, classy Josh, telling your ex-lover that you really want a female companionbot to cater to your every whim, is it any wonder things didn’t work out?) In that case I felt as if my protagonists gender, and sexuality were erased. In that case I’d have much rather a “nope, not interested.”