| StriderKiwi said: Fates was the same. Nothing surprising and nothing wrong with some "inclusivity". Wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo started this over the Tomodachi Life controversy, but I think the series is better with it's inclusion. |
I think Tomodachi may have been a part of it, but for Fire Emblem in particular, it seems like Nintendo is starting to get more in touch with a certain Western culture around anime that enjoys the shipping and fanservice end of things. Try looking up fan fiction for anime-style games sometime. For some IPs, it becomes actually difficult to find heterosexual relationships in fan fiction, because the culture around these games loves to ship same sex relationships. I'm not part of the LGBTQ community, so I won't get much out of this unless I were to make a female avatar for the hell of it, but I do like the shipping and fanservice end of Fire Emblem, so I appreciate the dating sim-like elements that have become standard for the modern FE games. As such, I'd get more enjoyment out of NPC-NPC same sex pairings than Avatar-NPC same sex pairings. If Nintendo ever starts that, our part of the FE fandom's takeover of the series will be complete, muahaha.
That said, I imagine the LGBTQ community makes up a larger portion of FE's audience than they do of the general population, so I'm not surprised if Nintendo is trying to cater to them a bit with this.
