Whole story concept is about a male and female apprentices, so it is an essential part of a story. You will have one male and one female charachter to role-play simultaneously.
Oh crap, that's really bad news, pretty much ruined it for me.
I really wish developers would stop pandering to vulgar sexuality and heteronormativity already.
Overwhelming majority of gamers are male and only 18% played as female Shepard in Mass Effect 3, which was the most mainstream marketed game ever. Can't they take a hint from raw data already?
Have you played the game already?! Surely the entire story and gameplay mechanics are automatically ruined since there's a woman in your PARTY of protagonists.
And it doesn't mean that you're a dude you're only going to play games which star male protagonists. Do we really have to sum up some of the great games which feature female protagonists?
Of course there aren't THAT many, mostly because of the likes of you who aren't open-minded enough to even take a look at a game which differs from their pre-set demands for games in general. I applaud Larian and other devs who try and mix things up a bit.
I, for one, am sick of seeing a Marcus Phoenix, Kratos and Sam freaking Fisher bald headed tough guys claiming the shelves of video game stores.
(Disclaimer: I don't hate balding male protagonists. There's just been too many of them in recent years)