This might be

as fuck (and if so feel free to rate accordingly) because this thread exploded and I have around 70 pages to read before I catch up.
I'm finding it hilarious people are using LGBT representation as a defense of this game and saying one of the reasons for the awful reviews are that the dreaded white cis male gamer just hates teh geys and is afraid of playing games where the protagonist isn't a grizzled white dude. If I was someone who genuinely hated gays, this dumpster fire would be
10/10 GOTY material.
Think about it. You get to graphically beat up not one, but
two lesbians to near death, the confirmed trans character is only important to the story on the part where they get deadnamed (
the horror) and treated as their birth sex by people who do not give a fuck about their feelings, and Abby, who most people will assume is trans, is loathsome.
There is
no positive LGBT representation in this game, everyone comes out looking bad. Ellie is an ass to others, ends up losing everything due to Abby and is retarded enough to forgive Abby and let her live in the end, all the while not forgiving Joel for saving her life. Dina is either a cheater or someone who easily discards people she supposedly cares about, as seen when she immediately leaves Jessie for Ellie after one drunken kiss, even though they were together for years. Lev's only character traits are sucking up to Abby (much like all the others in her group) and suffering from their transness from the Seraphites, because gender is something people care about after the world has gone to shit. Their background also makes it seem like they are only "trans" out of a desire to not be made a wife to the elders of the cult rather than any genuine desire of changing their gender. And then there's Abby, who I won't talk about because there's 400+ pages of people doing that already.