As many have said, generally I enjoy watching ladies being badass murderbabes in fiction (not sure I’d actually want to interact with an IRL murderbabe, unless she was on my side). As an aside, one of my favorite aspects of the Horizon series is being an unstoppable murder machine in a cute package.

In Cyberpunk specifically, I think a lot of the plot points are more poignant as Valerie—the whole intro scene with Johnny is a massively more problematic and narratively interesting interaction, for example. Another instance is getting turned down by Kerry, even though he’s bi and ruining River’s day because who doesn’t love ruining River’s day? Also in this game specifically I just really enjoy Cherami Leigh’s performance, but I will more often than not play as a lady in games when it’s an option. That’s just a long winded way of saying “‘cause I like to.”