Calling representation a “preference” ignores the reality that for marginalized people, absence isn’t neutral. When games default to all-white casts, it reinforces the idea that some identities are universal while others are optional add-ons. Saying this is a “recent demand” erases the fact that Black people existed in the 80s and have always existed in these spaces, even when media chose not to show us. You’re free to make whatever creative choices you want, but those choices still communicate values, intentionally or not. Creative freedom doesn’t mean those choices are beyond critique, especially when they contribute to a long-standing pattern of exclusion. Wanting to see racial difference reflected isn’t entitlement... it’s a reasonable response to being consistently left out.
Yeah but that's a personal perspective and motive that you are perceiving yourself, as you can't really decide whether or not the intention of an author was to discriminate certain races by not showing them, or rather hadn't thought about how to introduce a character. It's easy to assume things, and even easier to always think of the negatives, in my experience.
For instance, let's say the author did in fact added a black-skinned character, and represented them in a stereotypical way that showed his personality biased by his "race", now you have a character that I could point at and say "Hey! You're stereotyzing (or however you say that) a black character! That's racist!". Wich would be a dumb thing to say, on the contrary, you can also critique the game and say "Hey! You don't have black characters, that's discriminating!", wich I feel is also stupid, not everything has to be about race, and not every story needs inclusion of every other human group there is. And I mentioned that while it is cool to feel represented by a character for their race, traits, etc. Why can't you feel represented by a human that's not your same race, ethnicity, gender? Instead of judging values, ways of thinking, and judging people by being humans just as we are, we are pointing out their color skin, I'm latino and light-skinned, but I feel represented by asian football players due to their discipline, independent women, etc.
My guy, you turned a simple question into something really messy and wierd. Please stop. I found a video further down the comment chain that shows more fo the game and seems to answer my question for the most part.
Please let people ask things like this without making so complicated next time? Sometimes people just want to know if they can change the outfit on a character, or pet the dog.