History PlayingWith / PurelyAestheticGender

* '''Reconstructed''': A set of Personality options allow the [=PC=] to behave in a more "masculine" or "feminine" manner regardless of their chosen gender. There's also an Orientation option that decides which [=NPCs=] flirt with them.

* '''Exaggerated''': If you choose a female [=PC=], she will still be met by female love interests despite being written as straight, will slouch in her chair despite being stereotypically lady-like, and will even be referred to as "He" because the programmers seemingly did not think anyone would use the female [=PC=].

* '''Subverted''': Your character's gender alters your initial stats, but you can change these to whatever you want later in character creation, regardless of gender.
* '''Double Subverted''':

** "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground We gotta pick up chicks with our skateboarding tricks]]. Oh, and they all happen to be bi. Dunno why."

* '''Straight''': In ''Chronicles of Troperia'', you can make your Player Character either male or female and regardless of choice, the story and gameplay will be unaffected.

** ''Chronicles of Troperia'' is a NintendoHard game where you fight literal demons from hell and other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that'll OneHitKill you anyway, so your gender doesn't matter in the end.

* '''Deconstructed''': ''Chronicles Of Troperia'' suffers sales-wise because women who play it feel alienated by a player character who is basically a man in a woman's body.

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* '''Enforced''': The game developers did not have enough time to flesh out mechanical and aesthetic differences between the characters.

** [[KidHero You're too young for gender too really matter]].

* '''Inverted''': The male [=PC=] and female [=PC=] will lead to very different games, class sets, and even endings.

* '''Subverted''': The male [=PC=] has higher attack and physical defense growths, as well as access to the barbarian and gunman class chains. While the female [=PC=] has higher magic defense and luck growths with access to the druid and witch class chains.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but late-game, the growths blend out together and they gain access to each other's class

* '''Averted''': The natural aesthetic differences between men and women are reflected in each [=PC's=] animation, design, character reactions, etc.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': The player character's gender is purely aesthetic in Chapter 1. But then they get gender-specific reactions and dialogue in Chapter 2. It goes back to being ignored in Chapter 3...

* '''Exploited''': Charlie uses the Player Character's [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer inexplicable]] [[EvenTheGuysWantHim gender-defying charm]] that often comes with this trope to help his sibling Rayne[[note]](Who also qualifies for this trope by matching whichever gender the Player Character chose)[[/note]] come to terms with their bisexuality.

* '''Reconstructed''': A set of Personality options allow the Player Character to behave in a more "masculine" or "feminine" manner regardless of their chosen gender. There's also an Orientation option that decides which [=NPCs=] flirt with them.

* '''Straight''': In ''Chronicles of Troperia'', you can make your Player Character either male or female and regardless of choice, the story and gameplay will be unaffected

** The PC is a Troperian, a species that inverts BizarreSexualDimorphisim and has minimal differences between male and female bodies.

* '''Double Subverted''': ... but late-game, the growths blend out together and they gain access to each other's class
* '''Parodied''': The only difference aside from appearance is a very wide array of useless minutiae like tolitery preferences, underwear options, and embarrassing secret kinks. None of these even change any dialog or acknowledgement, let alone gameplay but the game insists that they are of supreme importance. The game insists that they add major replay value and as a reason to play through a whole game as both genders.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The game developers did not have enough time to flesh out mechanical and aesthetic differences between the characters
* '''Lampshaded''': "Boy? Girl? Doesn't matter, the Mawtooth will eat you either way."

* '''Exploited''': ???

%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

* '''Justified''': ''Chronicles of Troperia'' is a NintendoHard game where you fight literal demons from hell and other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that'll OneHitKill you anyway, so your gender doesn't matter in the end.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Conversed''': 'I understand not making the female [=PC=] weak. I don't understand noth bothering to give her a different voice actor."

* '''Justified''': ''Chronicles of Troperia'' is a NintendoHard game where you fight literal demons from hell and other EldritchAbomination{{s}} that'll OneHitKill you anyway, so your gender doesn't matter in the end.