Not sure why it's surprising. We don't actually have many "Human" sex partners in this game, on top of my head Gunnar, Bottom Logan, Soldiers, Residents, the fat bandit. All others are not Human.
Excluding the ones you specifically named:
Bareshade: Tom, Andrey, Harold, Torben, Bernard, Hayden, Blake, Random guys at the sex spot (+1 for randomly when you have sex w/ the stray dog), +1 for the "Black Brothers" in the tavern if you do the quest "A Person to Rent" (though your "Residents" could include all those unnamed/randos).
[Gunnar and Logan {though you can fuck Top Logan too} were the only ones you already named, besides "Residents"]
Roaming/Bandit Camp: Normal Bandit, Female Bandit, Pair of Bandits, Jester. {Unsure if you can fuck Jester's brother or not?}
[Barrel was the only one you already named]
Northcrest Area: "Soldiers" but that includes both the normal and fat variants as well as *quite a lot of scenes* in Northcrest (saying "we don't have many" is very unfair for the single scene characters), Commander Everett, Booner, SO MANY GUARDS like seriously you have the entrance guards prison guards the two "enemy" guards you can encounter the pair of guards if you walk around naked the ones at the training ground you can play cards with or blow the random guy, etc. You also have all the Public Bath and Public Bedroom scenes, the Brothel scenes; how can you say "we don't have many"!??!?! I'm not even including Dwarves which are BASICALLY just short, hairier, humans.
["Soldiers" is the only ones you named, but like, lumping *ALL* of those scenes and different-but-unnamed characters into one is so unfair]
Elsewhere: There's a few named one-off characters whose names I do not remember nor gaf about. I vaguely remember some by the "gloryhole fence" at Ste's farm/around his area. Also for those who like females, the Nymph is BASICALLY a human for all intents and purposes.
As far as "why it's surprising" (even Hyao said it was to him) is because people love to be "normal" and pick the things they know. It's why "Human" or the "Clearly-a-Human-but-named-as-such" (such as Hyur in Final Fantasy 14) is the most picked/popular race to play as or go after in virtually any game ever, because most Humans (such as us) are, as FTL puts it: boring and uninteresting.
LD feels really embracing the "diversity" aspect, everything is organic, nothing feels like shoe-horned in.
If it's a human town then of course it'll be (mainly) human, if it's not, no "human-reskin" only to fit into some quota.
Also I wouldn't worry about it turns to be like LO, Hyao is not in for chasing the money like LO's devs, and the creation is not as difficult as creating "aliens".
Which I'm very glad about. For the most part, Humans don't feel forced in LD and it does have a healthy mix, though IMO we could do with a smaller percentage of them, especially since we mostly just have humanoid/wild areas left AFAIK. Like, what we have is all we should really ever have for humans, besides maybe one or two more while a ton of humanoids (and beasties) get added.
(Personally I don't believe someone who is 'exclusively top' is really gay )
Interesting-and-factually-wrong take. I get
why you might think that, but gay != "putting things inside of you", it only means that you are attracted to the same gender as you, in the same way you can be straight but like having things put in you, usually by a dominatrix female. Even if you have guys do things to you, as long as you're not "attracted to the same gender as you", you're not gay.
Being gay or straight has literally nothing to do with your sexual role preferences.
Also, ain't MC being topped / Dominated fit into your impression as well? Otherwise not sure where you get this "Bara stuff emphasises the top/dom perspective a lot more".
I can only think of a few games, such as Small on Top.....yeah literally 1
EXCLUSIVELY top gay games? Yeah I think SoT might be the only one, and a lot of people don't want to play as a twunky bunny when they're a top.
