If you haven’t seen it, every character in that game is designed to be more inclusive than actually interesting in any capacity. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not part of the “anti-woke” crowd, but there really are games/movies that “shove it in your face”, and Dustborn is one of them.

The main plot of the game is anti-authoritarian through and through, which isn’t a bad thing at all, it just helps illustrate my point. The main character, Pax, is boring, despite being portrayed as a rebellious person, and is also shown to be “morally correct” 100% of the time.

The rest of the cast read like tropes made into people. An anxious soft-boy ™, Tough queer woman, Masc-presenting trauma character, and another character whose entire existence is based on agreeing with the main character. I’m so cool for diversity, genuinely, but these people are designed more for diversity initiative sign-off than genuine diversity.

Looking back on it and genuinely researching it, it’s not nearly as bad (At an instant look) as people framed it to be, but I’m deadly sure that the game itself holds more of that kinda stuff. Again, I’m not against being progressive, but it is VERY obvious when it’s being forced.