Interview with YoshiP - PAX Aus 2024

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Originally Posted by antiabz

I was dragged into it when my niece was devastated, she had to leave the sport she hoped to become a professional at because she just couldn't outperform the two biological males who joined the team. There were also many more injuries than usual and safety issues for young girls on the opposing teams.

I found out that was where my line was. I want people to be happy, and be themselves, but not at the sake of another vulnerable group (women). Anyone sane knows that hormones and surgery can't undo the advantage of different skeletal structure, faster muscle twitch, and larger hearts/lungs.

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This honestly is a tricky subject because it depends on how long they have been on hormones. If they go on blockers early this is a non issue since they will develop just like biological women and once they start hormones even after maturity, their bodies change drastically given enough time. The reason this is such a big deal now is because it seems like it has to be across the board or none at all.

And while I agree they were not concerned about being seen as actual women, in my experiences, that is how they referred to themselves and how they lived their lives. Even using the ladies room instead of the mens. They did not, however, have meltdowns if you accidently used their dead name or the wrong pronoun, esp if it was by accident. Hell we all used various pronouns for each other. Other gays were he or she, lesbians were she or he. No one cared, and still rarely do in the case of us older generations of gay, but only if they are not chronically online. My best friend growing up was not only trans, but also black, which just led to a lot more trans and black friends. While I do not know their struggles first hand, I have seen many of them from an outside, yet more personal perspective, so I do what I can with the knowledge I've gained while recognizing that it is an outside perspective.

A lot of ppl are cut off from reality is my main point though. Saying it's a problem in the trans community and making it sound only like a problem in the trans community is a big issue that needs to be addressed. It's a problem with ppl in all groups and we need to start learning how to sift through the bs, the pseudoscience, the false narratives that are everywhere online drowning out reality.

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

This honestly is a tricky subject because it depends on how long they have been on hormones. If they go on blockers early this is a non issue since they will develop just like biological women ... .

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If a biological male goes on puberty blockers early enough...they...don't develop just like biological women. They don't just magically grow ovaries, uteruses, and the attendant eggs, and then become sexually mature women. They can't. They become chemical castrati, and given castrati are historical, we already know what happens when they grow up.

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Originally Posted by Raven2014

In a lot of way you gotta feel bad for women in general because it feels like they're under attack on all side:

- The unequal treatment between male and female are well documented.

- And you have the trans women - who is biologically male - start to powercreep and think they deserve better and more special treatment while tremble on the right of biological female like the bathroom issue, competitive female sport, and of course in this case where transwomen is entitled to biological women job (in the name of diversity) but not the other way around.

- Than you have the feminist crowd that want to dismiss all the traditional value and strength of women because they believe that a strong and ideal woman is a woman who both look and act like men. Maybe I'm crazy or slow but ... isn't this like the biggest insult to women themselves?

So yeah, feel like no matter what direction the wings blow and where the needle move, women always seem to be the short end of the stick, it's sad. The saying "it's not easy to be a woman" feel even more true now than it was before.

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Aaand just like that, the entire forum will now go off topic a second time, going from actually on topic about Wuk Lamat and her bad writing and what can be done about it, to her VA which is an unrelated issue, to whatever identity politics you're trying to stir here. It's like clockwork every single time a Wuk thread pops up, no wonder why the valid complaints made here aren't actually going anywhere.

If only we had moderation that wasn't "this thread has crossed the line, delete it" and before the thread becomes irredeemable, like now. Then we could live in a world where criticism is not buried in ideological confrontations that have no place on these boards because someone mentioned something related to something else that professes a third.

And here I am dreading how much I'll have to tolerate Krile and her exposition diarrhea that they think following with some kind of smug grin makes bearable.

Brother they just say the same thing. About Wuk and picto op. FF14 is worse than WOW and WOW is getting better lmao.

Is this yet another worthless interview that only covers superficial stuff ? Is there no one willing to go forward and ask questions about the rotting underlying issues or are they just blocking/filtering those with bs pr and attempted demagogy ?

The more Yoshi talks these days the less interest i think im going to have in FFXIV, He's protecting bad choices of staff and trying to deflect them onto himself, but it doesnt fix the core of the problem of those choices being made, this is how so many other game companies decline in quality and enjoyment of for customers and they keep making the same mistakes, How you think about Wuk lamat writing comes off to people doesnt really change that people dont like her, Pushing her harder with more depth , might change the minds of some, but most people are just gunna be like "Oh shes back again.... ffs" This weird push by the staff and Yoshi until we accept her is offputting and cringe and a lil pattern recognition goes a long way to see why they might be doing it.

"One additional thing, there were comments about how we are too accepting of diversity — some people seem to be disapproving of that. I’m afraid one of our staff members received very negative comments and it almost felt like a personal attack, which breaks my heart, because she worked really hard and these criticisms were not constructive at all. [Editor’s note: Yoshida is referring to the transphobic verbal abuse and death threats that Wuk Lamat’s voice actress, who is a trans woman, has reportedly received from some FFXIV users.] It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation, and in the end that could potentially damage the quality of our game and take away from what makes this game so interesting. So if there are any sort of criticisms, bring it to me, because I’m the one approving this material. I wanted to reiterate that, please refrain from personal attacks against our staff." - YoshiP

Where was this stalwart defence of Susan Calloway when she had a harrassment campaign set against her and removed from Distant Worlds and had her association with SE cut?

"It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation"
It is the player base who is losing motivation to play especially when they are gaslighted by a game Director who seems so out of touch.

Developers love doing this thing where if even ONE person harasses a voice actor or staff, they now insist that 'all' criticism of the character itself is unfounded. Nobody should harass staff or actors, but a small minority of people doing it doesn't mean we can't have a problem with Wuk Lamat.

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It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation, and in the end that could potentially damage the quality of our game and take away from what makes this game so interesting.

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They damaged quality and made the game uninteresting, which led to alleged hate. Not the other way around ffs. CBU3 had fan support that other studios can only dream of before DT. Looks like blaming community because of studio failures is a new standard in the industry. This whole interview is so bad.

It's extremely disappointing to watch him take the worst attitude problems that Western devs have had for a decade or so and bring them to his title. He SUPPOSEDLY wants everything blamed on him, even though every time players' criticism of Wuk or the writing comes up, he ducks behind Sena and goes "You wouldn't want to be a transphobic death threat sender, would you?" Absolutely cowardly behavior that dismisses the problems that everyone had with the game, not just people that use the English localization, and frankly insulting to people that have supported his creation and career for years. Is this going to be his new tactic rather than producing content people like, instead phoning it in and hiring abrasive people from politically expedient backgrounds so he can accuse critics of his subpar work of being bigots? Whatever happened to "Yoshi-P only cares about the Japanese players?" They dislike Wuk as well and he can't hide behind Sena when addressing their problems with her. Also, having Ishikawa along for the ride seems like a sort of admission that this expac is becoming a PR disaster and bringing out the old and trusted faces to try to run interference, a lot like Blizzard loves to do with Metzen.

Why double down on more time with Wuk trying to rehab her when you have a character that people really like in Erenville right there? When he's not doing anything other than trying to deal with his trauma, while Wuk supposedly has a whole continent to run? She already came off like a self-absorbed narcissist whose interest in others only goes as far as fueling her whims. What benefit to this image they're trying to cultivate is having her prance around swinging an axe at various ne'er-do-wells when her people are still recovering from a violent and brutal extraplanar invasion, and the other world that got grafted onto her domain as a result of said invasion has an actual baby as a puppet ruling in place of their beloved but recently departed leader? Does he think having more "Speak with Wuk Lamat" makes her look better in that respect?

At this point he should just feel lucky that so many people are upset because that means they still care. That's not going to be a guarantee going forward if they don't start getting things moving in a good direction again.

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Originally Posted by Drimn

It's extremely disappointing to watch him take the worst attitude problems that Western devs have had for a decade or so and bring them to his title. He SUPPOSEDLY wants everything blamed on him, even though every time players' criticism of Wuk or the writing comes up, he ducks behind Sena and goes "You wouldn't want to be a transphobic death threat sender, would you?"

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And here is the definition of insanity. I see game companies do this all the time, but I can't recall even one occasion that it works. Yet they keep doing it, time after time. You see this in movie and Holywood too. It's like these people are just wired differently.

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Originally Posted by AureliusIX

"One additional thing, there were comments about how we are too accepting of diversity — some people seem to be disapproving of that. I’m afraid one of our staff members received very negative comments and it almost felt like a personal attack, which breaks my heart, because she worked really hard and these criticisms were not constructive at all. [Editor’s note: Yoshida is referring to the transphobic verbal abuse and death threats that Wuk Lamat’s voice actress, who is a trans woman, has reportedly received from some FFXIV users.] It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation, and in the end that could potentially damage the quality of our game and take away from what makes this game so interesting. So if there are any sort of criticisms, bring it to me, because I’m the one approving this material. I wanted to reiterate that, please refrain from personal attacks against our staff." - YoshiP

Where was this stalwart defence of Susan Calloway when she had a harrassment campaign set against her and removed from Distant Worlds and had her association with SE cut?

"It doesn’t do anything except make the staff lose motivation"
It is the player base who is losing motivation to play especially when they are gaslighted by a game Director who seems so out of touch.

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My best guess. Because Calloway was found liking racist tweets and then buckled down and deleted her twitter. Sena Bryer? Doubles down on every crazy take and if you give critique with logic? Instant transphobe label. I doubt Square want a PR nightmare where all 50 of Senas fans REEEE the loudest in twitter while the 99% of people who dont use twitter stay quiet. Making it seem like everyone agrees with her. Combine that with biased gaming media towards promoting everything trans as a victory of mankind. So defending Bryer in public = instant brownie points and the fans who want quality VA's who dont wild out on twitter = transphobes.

I'm still hella confused about one thing: when did we ever mentor Wookie? Even this interview mentioned that. We only were there as a mercenary at best, cheerleader at worst. The only time we managed to rein her anger is when she was upsetti after her Papa's death... but I think that hardly counts as mentoring.
On a side note, I'm not sure about her complexity either. A box of tissue paper is more complex than her. You can make a tropey character complex and fun, sure... but not at the cost of everyone else's development/screen time.

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Originally Posted by SummerAnt

I'm still hella confused about one thing: when did we ever mentor Wookie? Even this interview mentioned that. We only were there as a mercenary at best, cheerleader at worst. The only time we managed to rein her anger is when she was upsetti after her Papa's death... but I think that hardly counts as mentoring.
On a side note, I'm not sure about her complexity either. A box of tissue paper is more complex than her. You can make a tropey character complex and fun, sure... but not at the cost of everyone else's development/screen time.

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Like i said, If they're truly going to push her more, I just cant see it going well, people who already dont like her are going to be annoyed and even some of the people who tolerated her will probably start saying stuff like "Ok yeah, Wuk is getting on my nerves now, why exactly is she a main of of Post DT?" I already know a few people off the top of my head who tolerated her and were relieved to finished DT and no longer interact with her who are going to lose it when the patch drops and she pops up on screen and god forbid the patch quest say "Speak with Wuk Lamat"

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Originally Posted by ZodaSoda

Like i said, If they're truly going to push her more, I just cant see it going well, people who already dont like her are going to be annoyed and even some of the people who tolerated her will probably start saying stuff like "Ok yeah, Wuk is getting on my nerves now, why exactly is she a main of of Post DT?" I already know a few people off the top of my head who tolerated her and were relieved to finished DT and no longer interact with her who are going to lose it when the patch drops and she pops up on screen and god forbid the patch quest say "Speak with Wuk Lamat"

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I totally get those people honestly. Yoshi P must realize that if this keeps up, people are going to skip the story out of detachment... or simply leave the game altogether. What I heard is that the first patch quests are mostly pre-written. If anything, Wookie not being on the patch poster is a good sign imo. While I'm not very hopeful, it's worth the benefit of the doubt.

From what I've seen on both social media and here on these forums, there has been a mix of personal attacks against the VA and constructive criticism against the character

So I believe Yoshi P is wrong by saying there was no constructive criticism

But people saying that there hasnt been transphobia mixed in those criticism are also wrong, I dont believe its something that should be downplayed just because its a vocal minority

But the most surprising part to me is why is this still going on in November, surely everyone has finished MSQ by now, and busy doing end game stuff, is the topic coming back just because YoshiP mentioned it?

I am absolutely disgusted by how some of you even entertain the idea of death threats and say it's justified due to the VA poor performance and her dumb takes on social media. Nothing justifies that, there is no future for us as a civilization...

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Originally Posted by Kohashi

I am absolutely disgusted by how some of you even entertain the idea of death threats and say it's justified due to the VA poor performance and her dumb takes on social media. Nothing justifies that, there is no future for us as a civilization...

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Nobody is justifying it, people are saying just because certain garbage sends death threats it doesn’t mean that actual Criticism is invalid

The idiots sending death threats should be shouted down with prejudice, that doesn’t mean critisims isn’t valid

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Originally Posted by EponaTBHSMH

From what I've seen on both social media and here on these forums, there has been a mix of personal attacks against the VA and constructive criticism against the character

So I believe Yoshi P is wrong by saying there was no constructive criticism

But people saying that there hasnt been transphobia mixed in those criticism are also wrong, I dont believe its something that should be downplayed just because its a vocal minority

But the most surprising part to me is why is this still going on in November, surely everyone has finished MSQ by now, and busy doing end game stuff, is the topic coming back just because YoshiP mentioned it?

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It's probably a byproduct of the fact that there has been very little in the way of 'official' response to the player feedback since Dawntrail launched. Until recently very little had been said or done to acknowledge, let alone address, the opinions/concerns voiced by the community on the forums & social media.

not gonna lie I don't care about the VA I have listen to it and it isn't bad but isn't good like it is missing something I didn't even knew the VA was trans and honestly don't care either they just see those as "attack" and "transphobic" because they love being a victim if you don't want critic don't be a public figure at all.


no one can escape negative feed back but I will say this.


VA in English is off not bad but doesn't fit the character at all point some scene are downright horrible because of the fact they don't wanna shout/yell now I have a idea why but still I think the VA in Japanese is just perfect in my book and I will stick to that from now on too.


the death threat are downright stupid not gonna lie but sadly we live with humans some are really horrible people if they only see those then I guess they should drop being a voice actor right now

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Originally Posted by kajv95

I'm not who you're engaging with but even though her twitter became privated, it's thanks to these very forums that we still have a picture of the things said.

On Trans-coded characters:

https://i.gyazo.com/fd48bf97350170c0...42a2781472.png

https://i.imgur.com/oLuQ5ot.jpeg

On "Smile":

The song isn't "being compared to", it just *is* (allegedly) and the callout on "certain sections of gamers" is only ambiguously worded to have "a way out" as it were. Which it was used as in the long run. The intent is clearly to say "if you don't like Smile, you're a bad person." Because otherwise the post is saying "wow racist scumbags are being racist scumbags, that can't be a coincidence" and that's... I mean, yeah. Obviously.
https://i.redd.it/4x5l7fgxvhid1.jpeg

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Thank you for the material, I do appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by SummerAnt

I'm still hella confused about one thing: when did we ever mentor Wookie? Even this interview mentioned that. We only were there as a mercenary at best, cheerleader at worst. The only time we managed to rein her anger is when she was upsetti after her Papa's death... but I think that hardly counts as mentoring.
On a side note, I'm not sure about her complexity either. A box of tissue paper is more complex than her. You can make a tropey character complex and fun, sure... but not at the cost of everyone else's development/screen time.

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Thats the thing. We didnt. Its so surface level, much like everything in Dawntrail. Down to the dumb Mamool banana problem cause they were too dumb to try anything else or I dont know... have their oversea warparties find a solution. My tinfoil theory is that part of the Msq was AI written. Most likely just bad writing from a bad writer though. It felt juvenile and it felt like it was talking down to the intelligence of its audience. Most people who play MMOs are adults. The majority arent teens or younger. Have some integrity and respect for your audience.
WHICH THEY DID earlier, but now? I dont know what happened. It feels like Yoshi P is gaslighting us because the patch stories are already made and cant be changed/they dont want to change them. So hes selling a "mentor arc" and "we hope to show more of Wuk Lamat"

The thing that’s bad is that even if they wanted to show actual mentorship now as an excuse to give us more wuk the time has passed as she is now the ruler and that has passed out of our wheelhouse as we have specifically turned down rulerships because we don’t want them

So if they go down the mentorship route now either we will be mentoring her on something we don’t have the right to (which will probably devolve into “meet with this emissary with us in the room as a show of strength” style “mentoring” they have been way too fond of recently) or she will dump off her role again to koana to follow us for another conspiracy/adventure which will just repeat how everyone hated that she was present in solution 9

Either way we will lose

The devs are very aware of the opinions on Wuk lamat by every region. They know the fandom, they see what characters are popular and which aren't.
It says a lot when DT released and none of the JP nor EN/EU circles I frequent in gives a single flying fuck about Wuk lamat. Everyone is still creating content and fanworks for characters from the previous expansions. If a character completely flops to the point they don't get as many fanworks as a character that appeared for 5 minutes in a raid then well, it probably speaks volumes to how well liked she is.

What I don't understand is the decision to double down when the entire issue surrounding her is how much screentime she takes up. And that really is just the tip of the iceberg, the article doesn't seem to mention how lackluster the overall story in DT was and how even more Wuk Lamat yapping about friendship to the Alexandrians in the next patch is not going to fix the borderline issue the story had to begin with.
I can't imagine anyone having emotional attachment to the characters in DT. There is no reason why any of us should care about these people besides basic compassion for having a cat usurp their queen, while simultaneously installing a puppet king into their government. If the devs took the political implication of that serious it would at least make for a compelling narrative, but we all know the most we get out of this is more unrealistic and shallow "friendship and family fixes everything."

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

The thing that’s bad is that even if they wanted to show actual mentorship now as an excuse to give us more wuk the time has passed as she is now the ruler and that has passed out of our wheelhouse as we have specifically turned down rulerships because we don’t want them

So if they go down the mentorship route now either we will be mentoring her on something we don’t have the right to (which will probably devolve into “meet with this emissary with us in the room as a show of strength” style “mentoring” they have been way too fond of recently) or she will dump off her role again to koana to follow us for another conspiracy/adventure which will just repeat how everyone hated that she was present in solution 9

Either way we will lose

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The things in the WoL's wheelhouse that they could have mentored her on, like dealing with unavoidable loss, fighting, etc are all things that happened in 7.0 that she overcame on her own with no scenes that would lead from her going from point A to point B. She has no perceivable skill deficiencies, so what are we supposed to help with in patch content? Seasickness? S9 being unhappy at being turned into a vassal state lead by a lizard child isn't something the WoL should be able to help with because diplomacy has usually fallen to other characters.

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Originally Posted by Nanchi

The devs are very aware of the opinions on Wuk lamat by every region. They know the fandom, they see what characters are popular and which aren't.
It says a lot when DT released and none of the JP nor EN/EU circles I frequent in gives a single flying fuck about Wuk lamat. Everyone is still creating content and fanworks for characters from the previous expansions. If a character completely flops to the point they don't get as many fanworks as a character that appeared for 5 minutes in a raid then well, it probably speaks volumes to how well liked she is.

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Hey, to be fair WL does get a lot of fanworks, meme fanworks that is, think I even saw a song created for her.

The thing about mentor, we did do a lot of it ... as long as your definition of mentoring is being a cheerleader, 'cause that seems to be the definition the writer use. The one time we're allowed to state our own opinion about WL is when we talked to her farther without her being there (but she interrupt that conversation immediately). We're not allowed to NOT cheering WL as long as she's in presence.

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Originally Posted by Raven2014

Hey, to be fair WL does get a lot of fanworks, meme fanworks that is, think I even saw a song created for her.

The thing about mentor, we did do a lot of it ... as long as your definition of mentoring is being a cheerleader, 'cause that seems to be the definition the writer use. The one time we're allowed to state our own opinion about WL is when we talked to her farther without her being there (but she interrupt that conversation immediately). We're not allowed to NOT cheering WL as long as she's in presence.

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It's also strange that we can say that we think she's unsuited for the role and then with no change the plot fully piviots to how she's amazingly suited for the role

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Originally Posted by Kohashi

I am absolutely disgusted by how some of you even entertain the idea of death threats and say it's justified due to the VA poor performance and her dumb takes on social media. Nothing justifies that, there is no future for us as a civilization...

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I want to see the people here who "entertain the idea of death threats and say it's justified". Please, show me.

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Originally Posted by Kohashi

I am absolutely disgusted by how some of you even entertain the idea of death threats and say it's justified due to the VA poor performance and her dumb takes on social media. Nothing justifies that, there is no future for us as a civilization...

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If the VA is being sent credible threats on her life she should be going to the police with those to have them investigated. They are a serious matter and not something you keep around just to use in an argument against other people.

The sad truth of the matter for me, this will be the first time I intentionally skip cutscenes. I'm so done with the character. I don't want to learn more about her. It's too little, too late. The expansion has been a huge disappointment. I play for the story, and the story was beyond lackluster...

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Originally Posted by VerdeLuck

If the VA is being sent credible threats on her life she should be going to the police with those to have them investigated. They are a serious matter and not something you keep around just to use in an argument against other people.

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The example I saw her use was some guy just rudely telling her to strike for as long as she wanted because she did a bad job in DT. I think that guy was then doxxed by her followers and deleted his account.

Can you people stop talking about the EN VA already JFC???
This topic has done to death and only gives ammunition to the loyal white-knights, who can then say "See? The MSQ is actually good, youre jsut phobes!!!!"

Just fucking stop, PLEASE.

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Originally Posted by honest_psycho

Can you people stop talking about the EN VA already JFC???
This topic has done to death and only gives ammunition to the loyal white-knights, who can then say "See? The MSQ is actually good, youre jsut phobes!!!!"

Just fucking stop, PLEASE.

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The problem is one of those white knights is Yoshi-P himself, who's done exactly that in a few interviews now.

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Originally Posted by Hallarem

Thats the thing. We didnt. Its so surface level, much like everything in Dawntrail. Down to the dumb Mamool banana problem cause they were too dumb to try anything else or I dont know... have their oversea warparties find a solution. My tinfoil theory is that part of the Msq was AI written. Most likely just bad writing from a bad writer though. It felt juvenile and it felt like it was talking down to the intelligence of its audience. Most people who play MMOs are adults. The majority arent teens or younger. Have some integrity and respect for your audience.
WHICH THEY DID earlier, but now? I dont know what happened. It feels like Yoshi P is gaslighting us because the patch stories are already made and cant be changed/they dont want to change them. So hes selling a "mentor arc" and "we hope to show more of Wuk Lamat"

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If that's the case, I'm very disappointed with the writing team. I always thought they take some sorts of pride in their writing (especially because ShB was peak). DT's story was basically the main plot of Pokemon Sun/Moon without its charms. At least there we took on the trials by ourselves and not babysitting a house cat for 10+ hours.
Yoshi P is such a gaslighter and an enabler if he's going to ignore the feedbacks. They should've sell this story for a different game and for a different audience.

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Originally Posted by Carin-Eri

https://i.imgur.com/cL6BlB0.png
Makes for some interesting reading, particularly regarding the reception of Dawntrail, although not sure the concerns that many players have expressed have been fully addressed:
https://checkpointgaming.net/feature...-of-dawntrail/

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So she's getting forced on us?
I will skip every line and passage of text about her or from her in complete defiance of this

I don't know what to say to you yoshi p. I feel like at this point many of us have raised really valid concerns without attacking. But I personally believe that this va doesn't behave professionally. Can I level with you? Her acting is really kinda sticking out for all the wrong reasons. Lines fall flat and emotion isn't their. Please I beg of you to consider these points carefully, because I know you love and care for this game and it's staff, but we.. your players feel ignored and honestly.. invalidated.

Also. I'm concerned about how you want to show us more of her.. it feels forced. Like a kid begging you to like them, and I'm afraid you just can't force this from us. Please just consider benching wuk and making a character more like sir aymeric/lord hein/merlwyb. I could spend hours in thier company. Wuk lamat just doesn't have the same charisma and unless you personality transplant her. Nothing she does is gona make me like her more

The time when people stop worshipping yoshi p as a god is finally coming? Will he finally fall off his golden throne then maybe the game can finally change if lucky.

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Originally Posted by SummerAnt

I'm still hella confused about one thing: when did we ever mentor Wookie? Even this interview mentioned that. We only were there as a mercenary at best, cheerleader at worst. The only time we managed to rein her anger is when she was upsetti after her Papa's death... but I think that hardly counts as mentoring.
On a side note, I'm not sure about her complexity either. A box of tissue paper is more complex than her. You can make a tropey character complex and fun, sure... but not at the cost of everyone else's development/screen time.

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I feel like we were intended to be seen as some kind of mentor or more experience knowledgeable companion to her, which is a role I would have really liked to see play out given our experience, but due to the limited nature of our dialogue it didn't really come out that way. They can't really give our characters any kind of lengthy or in depth dialogue because they've designed it so we can give our character any kind of attitude or personality we want. So it looks like she ends up coming to most of these conclusions herself while we stare blankly at her or emote exaggeratedly at her silently.