It kinda threw me off aswell, it gets rid of the feel that it's me acting. I'm just used to dating games (and these type of games) that make you a blank anon so you can imagine easier or give you character customization.
Well anyways, this shit is fuckin' good
I'm not even into buff guys or anything with (Or similar to) a beard, but the Moth dude and Tessie made me have a girl boner
The issue is that in many visual novels or dating sims, you don't even see your character. Just the fact that this game allows you to customize your character and doesn't give you the option to change skin color—and personally, I do not like that I cannot choose other hairstyles—is upsetting. This would be discriminatory to lighter-skinned people.
This is a dating sim where the desc even says "You arrive at the town of Longhope" so it is or make more options for skin colors and such or outright place a blank character (gray person or silhouette with Y/N)
And you brought up other games with white characters that represents your character- would you refer to these? (and if its possible do not reference asian visual novels since they do it because most of its player base are light-skinned) refer to some visual novels or dating sims that do insert your character- since there are a few that do not insert the characters from the players and instead insert an OC from the creator itself.
Conclusion if you have an idea comply with it to its fullest and do not cut it short- Add more customization.
This might be slightly biased since I hate the customization options- this is supposed to be a self-insert game but instead its just the creators OC with slight changes- its fine if the creators do not wish to change the character so much but that would need them to change the description to not say that its you who is in that world since the customization its just make up, no make up, beanie, no beanie, and changes that really do NOT makes the character custom and its just Robin in a different outfit with or without beard.
It didn't really make me uncomfortable I would've just preferred if it didn't refer to them as you, because no I don't look like that, I get off put when Mcs that are portrayed as "you" are white as well, if it isn't obvious my favorite kind of visual novel are the ones that just never show the character lol, and please don't imply I'm racist, half of my family is black and I'm South African, it's honestly sad you'd assume something like that. Also, I don't watch trailers usually especially if they're visual novels because most of them go the same way.
