Contents:
- PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY
- PERSONA 5 ROYAL: JOKER AND AKECHI ARE DEFELY GAY FOR EACH OTHER AND ATL CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE
- HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS
- PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN
PERSONA 5 ROYAL SHOULD DIAL UP THE GAY
The velopers acknowledged an terview that a ntroversial scene the origal Persona 5 picted two of the game’s only gay characters as predators, and that they knew didn’t go over well wh many of the game’s fans. In the origal Persona 5, a pair of unnamed gay men approach the character Ryuji unprompted durg a mandatory -game vis to Shju.
It’s a eply unsettlg and unnecsary scene that pats the game’s only two visibly gay men as predators, and the whole suatn is played off as a joke. In Persona 5 Royal, the two gay men are no longer unnamed; they troduce themselv as Angel and Julian (or Julie, if you’re “feelg scy”).
PERSONA 5 ROYAL: JOKER AND AKECHI ARE DEFELY GAY FOR EACH OTHER AND ATL CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE
The punchle is now “isn’t funny that the gay men ma a boy wear women’s cloth, spe the fact that they were clearly makg him unfortable, ” stead of the prev joke that was based on the punchle of “isn’t the implied implied threat of sexual asslt, or even rape, hilar? Was my therapist gay or trans? At some pot velopment, Persona 4 origally planned to have a gay relatnship between the player character and Yose, who had an uned voiced le featurg a love nfsn hidn wh the game fil.
HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS
Asi om the relatnship availabily self, Persona 2 has been said to pict gay people more realistilly than Persona 5, where they were shown as flamboyant, possibly pedophilic ritur. The two unnamed men are the only explicly gay characters the game:.
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PERSONA 6 NEEDS A GAY ROMANCE OPTN
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