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For Polygon, I wrote about how pleased I am with the range and ubiquity of queer identity in Watch Dogs: Legion, and my frustrations that these identities don't matter more than they do. https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/9/21556708/watch-dogs-legion-queer-identity
I want to be liked by all readers, I really do, and I'm certainly no Pauline Kael, but when some people do take umbrage at what I consider to be just pretty mild efforts to explore what a game is and isn't doing, I take some comfort in this: https://twitter.com/carolynmichelle/status/1290476006818512904?s=20
To answer a ? I someone asked, yes, I do want games in which being queer or trans doesn't impact a character's experience. I absolutely want visions of such liberated societies. But WDL is explicitly a game about fascist oppression. Those oppressions are never one-size-fits-all.
I'm not saying I want playing as a queer person to = HARD MODE. I just want to feel those identities in the texture of the game somehow, and found how they're weirdly absent in the lives of the characters a bit jarring, as I explain here.
I want to be clear: it is super awesome that in WD: Legion, queer and trans people are everywhere, that its bustling London reflects our existence in the world. In that regard, it is the type of big-budget game from a major studio I could scarcely have imagined ten years ago.
