(Or was it the sister? I did hear people complain about her.) far as I ever heard the protagonist's gender and personality are usually up to the player. I have heard several scathing reviews for MEA yes, did not know about the female lead being mandatory. Ripley (Alien) wasn't 'cute' nor was Furiosa (Mad Max), nor was Queen Elizabeth or Cersei Lannister! 'Cuteness' is all to often just another word for 'incompetent, but at least docile' or 'potential love interest for losers'. So at least for me, the decision to head into the same direction and making 'cuteness' the most striking personality trait of the female protagonist is negligently stupid. (and you might have heard about how well this AAA game was received) See, there's another game in which a 'cute', but rather lax and 'over-emotional' female protagonist gets in contact with an AI - just out of coincidence - and is going to explore rather geometric alien structures that tend to be filled with nothing but oversized control devices and gravitational elevation.Īnd this game is called MassEffect Andromeda. But for me, her personality was a huge disappointment. Which is why I don't think that the option to change gender could be implemented easy as simply rerecording the lines. Robin's demeanor and speech patterns are very feminine.