“AC Odyssey touted player choice as a main selling point including who to romance,” Redditor ErinKane wrote. “But with the new DLC even if you played Alexios as a gay man or Kassandra as a lesbian the game forces you to romance and end up having a kid with a partner of the opposite gender whether you want to or not. There is zero options to stop it.”
As Erin points out, Ubisoft Quebec highlighted the fact that players had control of their sexual orientation.
“If you want to be a woman and romance a woman, you can do that. If you want to be a man and romance a woman, you can do that. If you want to be a man and romance a man and a woman, you can do that,” Odyssey Narrative Director, Melissa McCoubrey, told Stevivor back at E3.
Despite that proclamation, it seems the new DLC overrides your choices and delivers a straightwashed ending instead.
“I played through the new episode of the dlc without saving because I already had a bad feeling this was going to happen,” Redditor SatansPRGirl wrote. “I just reloaded my save before I completed it and won’t be playing the dlc anymore.
“I’m pretty disappointed with Ubisoft at the moment. I also chose every dialogue option to show that I wasn’t interested in a romance with the guy but that did absolutely nothing.”