Really wish authors would stick to their guns and just leave the female protagonist as female only instead of caving and adding the pronoun nonsense in a later update. It seems every time a VN is female only, there's whining to insert gender selection and pronouns... as if there aren't plenty of VNs that have the option to choose already. May as well remove the Otome label, since it no longer fits.
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Ngl, I'm getting pretty jaded at this point. People pushing for it always come across like having a female protag only is somehow a terrible thing and bigoted, along with other nonsense. I don't have a problem with VNs having the choice from the jump or w/e, my problem is with the blatant hypocrisy of it all.
Also, the misuse of tags is a huge pet peeve of mine. This isn't limited to the Otome tag, but also the yuri, yaoi, and bara tags, among others. Examples:
Bara: MxM only, male target demographic.
Otome: FxM only, female target demographic.
People will slap multiple tags (otome, yuri, yaoi) on something when none of them apply because they just smushed everything in, and a more general tag would make sense.
I could go on, but I'll spare you my ranting. >_>
Hii thanks for your comment! I totally get where you're coming from.
The Wolf Wears Red was originally written with a female protagonist in mind. I added options since I wanted more people to enjoy the game, but it still contains special dialogue for each gender (since the killer in the story prefers to target men).
About the otome label: The tag was required when submitting to otome jam, but I get why that would seem like it's cluttering the search -- it has now been removed.
I played a lot of otome games growing up, so I completely understand your frustration!