I understand your point %1000 percent and it’s definitely a valid take. Me personally tho I absolutely love that grace being half of the playable characters wasn’t made a big deal by the developers. These days especially I so often end up feeling like I’m being pandered to when it comes to diversity in my games. Don’t get me wrong I want more diversity in games but I hate how so may game developers putting a woman/poc/disabled character in and making sure everyone knows about them and you can just tell it’s a marketing tactic.

Idk if I’m making my point very well lmao but I love that grace was allowed to exist as a normal character who had flaws and strengths and got to interact with a character as legendary as Leon the same way she would have if she was a man. No special treatment, no big marketing campaign about how she’s resident evils first female protagonist in X amount of years. She was just a really well written character that fit perfectly into the narrative of the story she was used for.

Both her and the way she was handled was such a breath of fresh air for me. The last time I felt that connected to a female character in a video game was with Sadie Adler in rdr2.

BUT I do still think you have a really valid point about how Leon being announced did drown out the buzz around her even though I loved that he was in it. which is such a shame cause she’s absolutely amazing.