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Imho multiple protagonist games work best if the protagonists are in a cooperative team and share a goal. The player then has to decide who is best suited to do which part of the puzzle to progress, eg use the female body to seduce someone to get access or use the male body to ask a hacker friend to hack into a system to grant access from inside or use one character as distraction at front while the other one acts from behind.Agreed. The story would be better with a protagonist (either character) than just a couple of POV characters. The dramatic tension of "what will they do with my body?" is broken by allowing the player to completely decide that. Multiple-POV stories only work when there is little or no interaction between the POV characters.
(Famous examples in early adventure games are "Maniac Mansion" (1987), "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" (1992) or "Day of the Tentacle" (1993) by Lucas Arts.)
If both protagonists are antagonistic, it may quickly escalate to tit-for-tat or worse, both characters just damaging each others social reputation, assets, bodies and worse. (Asshole move from Shay might be to have sex with a guy, get the female body pregnant and then swap back to his male body, leaving Brandi pregnant.)