While typically woke stuff is a huge turn off for me the description looked interesting enough, so I decided to give it a try... and I wasn't disappointed.
The story consistently had me intrigued, I (mostly) liked the characters (especially Lea) most of the customization options were cool and I'm very much looking forward to more. I have just one issue however, and that would be the player character.
For my playthrough I decided to play as a cis gendered male, and so it was distracting how much of his dialogue and internal monologues really didn't sound like someone a man would think, say or react. To give one example: the *encounter* with the Baron (I'm leaving out specifics to avoid spoilers) is not how a medieval Baron would treat another man, at least not in front of others, and after picking the bottom option the dialogue my character made while talking to Lyari was *far* off of what any man would say in a modern, liberal first world country let alone in a medieval setting.
I know from the length of the block of text above it seems like I'm making a *huge* deal out this, but it was really only the solid complaint I could think of, so I wanted to be as thorough as reasonably possible. I understand that you can choose your character's gender and I don't expect you to write two separate types of dialogue based on what your character's gender is, but it was bit disappointing considering I'm trying to roleplay as a man and like I said earlier, distracting.
It feels like choosing your character's gender boils down to little more than swapping pronouns and genitals purely for the sake of inclusivity instead of being a meaningful choice with any inherit vaule, like in Mass Effect for example, but that it's exactly fair to compare the two, however that's the experience I have and as you've might've guessed by my username, that's just the first thing I thought of. Maybe it was a bit of a bigger deal than I let on.
I'm certainly not going to toss away something I other really enjoy just because I *one* issue I have with it. That one scene was just that, *one* scene and at least some of the rest of it I *could* just be looking too much into. I just thought I'd give my thorough and honest opinion because it didn't sit right with me to stay silent about something I really like to the person who made it. I guess I'm just passionate about it.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this continue to grow both tall and wide.
From ya boi; Torso Evans