Persona 4 almost had a gay romance, and wh this mod for Persona 4 Goln on Steam, we might see fully realized.
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PERSONA 4: GOLN MOD RTOR GAY ROMANCE OPTN
While Persona 2: Innocent S was ahead of the curve, cludg a gay romance optn all the way back 1999, recent history has been more spotty, wh Persona 5 drawg cricism om LGBT+ groups for the cln of two particularly stereotypil gay characters who pop up ocsnally as a nng gag, to the pot of havg their l rewrten the English release of Persona 5: Royal. While had no nfirmed LGBT+ characters, do have one character, Kanji, who’s heavily hted as beg gay or bisexual, but looks like the game uld have gone a step further and clud a gay romance optn – party member Yose – an optn which has been ma available thanks to a mod of the PC versn of Persona 4: Goln, released earlier this year. The seri has a troublg history wh s pictn of queer characters and sexualy, wh a blatantly homophobic scene Persona 5 eded for the Royal update.
The issu might lie partially lolizatn—queerns Japane and Wtern culture are pretty different—but even so, the lack of gay or bisexual relatnship optns has always stood out to me, pecially when the romanc have ltle to no effect on the ma narrative. Kanji’s homosexualy yields to an tertg but tepid exploratn of masculy. Bee of an outpourg of plats, Atl altered some scen Persona 5 Royal’s Wtern release which picted two gay men sexually harassg Ryuji Sakamoto, one of the game’s central st members.
” The scen were prerved the Japane release, so the lolizatn team had to work around this scene still occurrg, stead playg off as if the two olr gay men wanted to put Ryuji drag for the first time. Includg the gay romance social lk for Yose, which has existed the game’s fil, but never was accsible through the game as existed on PlayStatn 2 or PlayStatn Va. This is notable for a few reasons, bee not only is addg another romance optn to the game, but ’s also the sole gay romantic storyle a seri that has gone out of s way to not be clive when to queerns general.