Or maybe it won’t play the game for me but will do whatever it wants, mess up about my gameplay because it inferred it should do something I did not order it to do.

Either way, awesome! Lovely gaming experience. I remember being a kid and thinking “wouldn’t it be so much more fun it if I didn’t have to actually play the game?”.

People often love to fus ro dah Skyrim companions off of cliffs because they can be incompetent annoying little dumb things that won’t shut up.

The character taking on canine form won’t suddenly make gamers more likely to put up with it messing about their gameplay. Thats just not how things work.