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this is a rly cool game, great concept, well designed puzzles, great animation and really engaging writing. all the characters are really charming and the systems are really fun to figure out.  i do have one suggestion about the dialog system.

so im a trans woman, my first try in the opening i picked "its complicated" and while most of the pronouns were they/them i did get he'd a couple times. (i specifically remember heracross saying it but it mightve happened other places).

i decided to try picking "im a girl" on another save and instead of saying "genitals" grovyle said "vagina" which is a thing i dont have so kinda turned me off. 

it would be real cool to have the pronouns for the player and the genitals the player is assumed to have be decoupled from eachother. itd aslo be cool have those both be a setting in the options menu or something. i like the opening conversation but its pretty ambiguous what all it changes and having to start a new save to mess with it is demotivating. and in my specific situation, unless im missing something, theres not an option there that would make me feel the most comfortable (she/her pronouns and using "genitals" to refer to my genitals)

its a really cool game, its engaging and sexy and challenging and cute and funny and charming and i really enjoy it!  thank you so much for all the work you put in and for sharing it publicly like you have. i hope my grievance doesnt come off as hate, i really like the game and even if the change i suggested is too much work to implement or you simply arent interested in making that kind of change ill still recommend it to my friends cus i think its real cool. 

Thank you, i totally agree with the sentiment of inclusion and respecting the pronoun and genital preferences of all players! But unfortunately in the present day, video games are written by people in machine code, and considerations like these require more people, smarter people, and more complicated code. I promise i did try really hard!!

The game is open-source if you happen to remember some of the specific places where you got "he'd", or if you want to expand the game to include separate preferences for genitals/gender, expand the dialog choices, or even offer alternate more complex pronouns, or let the Pokemon themselves be non-binary. The possibilities are only limited by your free time, patience and technical expertise!

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blob/main/source/poke/hera/HeraShopDi...

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blob/main/source/poke/hera/HeraDialog...

If you want to fix those dialogue typos, here are the two classes which include about 99% of Heracross's dialogue in the entire game (except for the places where they show up during other pokemon's puzzles.) If you remember the exact thing they said, you can just CTRL+F it and find it really quickly!

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blame/main/source/poke/hera/HeraDialog.hx?ref_type=heads#L927

For example line 927 here, Heracross talks about abra and says "...if he..." and then line 950 includes the alternate female dialogue "...if she...". Maybe there are some mistakes or oversights! It's also possible you misread the dialogue, and they were talking about a male Pokemon in the game, but you thought they were talking about you instead. I'm not sure! Let me know if you find anything I should fix.

I'm sorry for your negative experiences with my game! Let me know if there's anything concrete I can do to remedy them.

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thank you for the kind response, i personally have no coding knowledge whatsoever, but its really cool that these things are possible, thank you!