Thread:BTR180/@comment-27550231-20180421042123/@comment-31049256-20180619060945

No, Ellie has been hinted at being either bisexual or a lesbian since the first game with her limp "best friend" comments which was then confirmed in the dlc from what I hear. It was just that it took all the cringy dialog some lonely girl would put in her fanfic and made it the focus of the trailer...that was also preceded by some dude playing his banjo with no gameplay or even trailer footage showing.

Basically in the world of mushroom zombies they decided it was more important to have Ellie propped on a bar at some hoedown or something that reeks of a highschool dance deal, her watching some chick dance around with tons of guys. Said chick comes and gets her when the slow dance comes on, and then Ellie and her have an exchange that goes like.

Ellie: All the guys are looking at you.

Girl: They could be looking at you...

Ellie: Nah, not me... (this was the really cringy part for me, because the way she said it clearly felt like "Oh no, no meeeee, I'm ugleh! despite the fact that Ellie is without any personal flaws and the girl she's with had like a wart on her face or something iirc, so like I said it screamed bad fanfic "I think I'm ugly but in reality I'm super gorgeous, but do try and tell me because I won't beleave yuu lol;DDD)

Girl: Maybe they're jealous? (and as you can see, the cringe was deepened)

Then they slowly kiss...and that's it for the trailer....no gameplay, no clickers or tense moments, just something that was probably in some eager but unskilled writer's fanfic set with legal women rather than the child ellie of the first game, and the whole affair made it feel like a pandering trap rather than real character moment. It really turned me away from the game in the future, as it's not like it was in a good spot with its competition next year with Kingdom Hearts 3 finally releasing and the others I mentioned.

As for Nioh, I've never played that either, but heard it was good, and also souls-like. Personally I was looking forward to Seikiro up until Vaati Vidya released a Youtube vid on it. The gameplay looks fun, but if they've really removed character creation and any kind of customization I'll wait instead of getting at release despite doing the opposite with Souls. As fun as it looks, it just doesn't feel right to have a developer choose not to implement a feature like that. I mean I know it's their choice and I'm not mad at From or anything, but if they really removed it to focus on the protagonist as it (especially if he remains a silent protag like it seems to me from the clips) I'd just as soon as get the new assassin's creed since it's gonna at least give me the feeling of agency in picking the MC's gender.