![]() It often leaves me feeling like I have to choose a male avatar if I want to experience the story in its purest form. This is especially evident in games where players are given the option between male and female avatars, when writers sometimes differentiate between genders in stereotypical ways. And although inclusivity and diversity in gaming has steadily grown over the years, it’s still common for a game to make me feel like it only tried to meet a severely low bar and immediately stopped there.Īs a genderfluid female-identifying Latinx player, it’s already tough for me to find representation of myself in video games, especially when the games are written from the perspectives of cisgender straight men, even when women are the lead characters. Like most games, though, they’re made by predominantly male teams. Series like Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons are a good mix of the things I enjoy most about gaming: micromanaging resources and romancing the hot neighbor. For as long as I’ve been playing video games, I’ve loved farming sims and visual novels more than any other genre.
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