Male or Female Avatars for Canon/Default apearences in future games

[Mylady]

On 8/6/2020 at 1:39 PM, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

Yeah, basically. In Awakening and Fates, they take great pains not to represent the Avatar character in their cutscenes. Then Smash comes along, and says "their name is Robin, and they have this particular hairstyle". Same with portrayals in Warriors and Heroes. Doing so prioritizes a single representation of a character who can be constructed in many different ways. What's the point of letting the player name and design their own character, if that character is going to be represented in a standardized fashion across the rest of the series?

I agree, it's a poor decision. But I think avatar exists as a -cheap- momentary self insert.

Avatars have a background, standard name and appareance, but they still want to provide the gamers the experience to role play, especially the casual gamers that won't overthink details and won't engage in "canon wars"

Edited August 8, 2020 by Mylady