Yeah, it never fails to make me laugh that the woke crowd never failed at misinterpreting a teenager confusing interest in things outside traditional gender roles for being homosexual (in and of itself a confusion of sexuality) for him struggling with attraction to men. It makes it very obvious that very few of them have actually played the game and instead relied on the Cliff's Notes interpretation written by a few people who blithely ignored half of his storyline.
Naoto in particular is the most hilarious to me.
For the uninitiated Naoto's storyline boils down to "I want to be a man to be taken seriously at work" because she works as a young freelance detective with dreams of being an actual police detective when she grows up. She is never actually shown in game being harassed or taken less seriously because she is a woman (she presents male) and is never shown to be taken less serious because of her age (although she mentions this happens).
In addition, not only is she never shown to be harassed - she is shown to be constantly praised and celebrated. She is venerated constantly on national television as "The Detective Prince" and is apparently constantly called on to help solve tough cases country wide despite her age; meaning that she's already pretty remarkably successful despite her self-thought of handicaps.
Her story could much more strongly interpreted as people don't generally care who you are as long as you can do your job, which would be a great lesson for the twitter crowd to learn.
He's a commentator for the EVO Championship Series. Apparently he helped build the competitive Catherine scene and side-tournament at EVO.
Just to contextualize this for non-fighting game community people. Nearly anyone can commentate at EVO and it isn't uncommon to see a wide variety of people do so,
doubly so for Evo's "side events". Getting a game to show up as a "side event" is a remarkably small feat and all that's required is to simply volunteer to run it as a tournament organizer. Evo will typically run 6 or more continuous streams for the various events with each stream featuring two commentators. The only "real" commentators are the ones who get to talk during Top 8 of "major" events (and that's almost always Ultradavid and James Chen).
Catherine has a competitive scene as much as the following games.
- Wind Jammers
- Puyo Puyo Tetris
- The SNES Sailor Moon fighting game
- The SNES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting game.
It had 33 people enter at Evo 2018.
If David Browliet didn't run Catherine at Evo, someone else clearly would have and no one would care either way. The actual hero of the Catherine competive scene is Atlus, who upon hearing there was an audience for the game is implementing netcode for the competitive mode in the Full Body re-release.
Also as a side note there was a tranny in the top 4 ("silentblackcat") who not only beat David in the tournament but
is not stopping playing competitive Catherine. David, you shouldn't be more offended than the "real" tranny about "transphobia".