I may have enjoyed much of my time with Monark, but how it treats Perrine was always on my mind. There are a few other questionable moments within Monark, but nothing sticks out as indefensible or blatant in the same way. This edition includes an updated interface and fixes bugs in the original version of the game, but the content. The current edition of the Alter Ego game is a production of Choose Multiple LLC. It made me feel sick to read and may have ended my playthrough had I not been reviewing the game. (Alter Ego was originally published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. Perrine's character profile not only implies she is strange for being upset when deadnamed (and deadnames her in the process), but also follows up by misgendering her, suggesting she is 'a boy pursuing feminine beauty.' I cannot dismiss such blatant transphobia. Most of these are interesting details that expand upon the NPC in question, but then there's the one that is horrifically transphobic. These grant your party a permanent stat improvement and reveal a 'secret' side to the NPC in their character profile.

'As you increase the aspects of your ego, you can obtain crystals scattered around the school that contain 'alter-egos' of NPCs.

'Monark isn't a great game, I am not even sure I would call it a good one, but if it wasn't for the transphobia and atrocious pacing, I would likely be enthusiastically recommending it to the right sort of player.'

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