I'm playing a video game about the viking age and hoping to mentally put myself into that time period while playing, but half of the warriors and such are women, which pulls me out of that time period. It takes away from the escapism, which is the main reason I play video games.
The game is open world, but I personally dont like how you cant achieve much by just exploring, and instead have to go to specific and obvious objectives to really progress. It's a lot of hand holding, and I find there to be too much monolog as well