Ntendo isn't allowg gamers to play as gay an upg life simulator game
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- NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'
- NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL
NTENDO APOLOGIZ FOR OMTG GAY MARRIAGE FROM 'TOMODACHI LIFE'
* can you have a gay couple in tomodachi life *
They jt n't fall love if they're gay. Ntendo isn't allowg gamers to play as gay an upg life simulator game. Tye Mari, a gay 23-year-old Ntendo fan om Ma, Arizona, lnched the mpaign last month, urgg Osaka, Japan-based Ntendo Co.
" The issue marks not only a cultural divi between Japan, where gay marriage is not legal, and North Ameri and Europe, where gay marriage has bee legal some plac, but also the teractive world, where gam are often pastakgly "lolized" for other regns, meang characters' voic and likens are changed to su different lol and ctoms.
While many English-language gam don't feature gay characters, several role-playg seri produced by English-speakg velopers, such as "The Sims, " "Fable" and "The Elr Scrolls, " have allowed players to create characters that n woo characters of the same sex, as well as marry and have children.
NTENDO PROMIS GAY UPL TOMODACHI LIFE SEQUEL
The vio game pany hts that may allow for gay relatnships future versns of “Tomodachi Life." * can you have a gay couple in tomodachi life *
Other more narrative-driven gam, like "Grand Theft Auto IV, " "The Last of Us" and "Gone Home, " have clud specific gay, lbian and bisexual characters. Ntendo hted Friday that may allow for gay relatnships future versns of s “Tomodachi Life” vio world’s largt vio game pany has been the target of cricism om gay-rights gamers who plaed that characters aren’t allowed to have same-sex relatnships English edns of the life-simulator game. ”A gay Arizona man, Tye Mari, took to social media last month urgg Ntendo to add same-sex relatnship optns to English versns of the handheld Ntendo 3DS game.
"Ntendo has said that the abily for same-sex relatnships to occur was not part of the origal game that lnched Japan, where gay marriage is not legal. But the game found self at the center of some fairly heavy ntroversy last year that’s rearg s head aga as the wtern dience begs to notice a gapg absence Tomodachi Collectn: there are no gay or lbian relatnships. Regardls, Ntendo was clearly only tryg to assist s nsumers, but also advertently took an unfortunately jarrg stance on gay marriage.
We know Tomodachi Collectn was signed and released whout addrsg the prence and realy of gay and lbian relatnships society, which is eher a severely egreg oversight or a lculated omissn, but which is ? Gay marriage is not yet legal Japan, though there is no law agast homosexual relatnships, and same-sex sexual activy was legalized 1880.