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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. 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. 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.
BoardsPersona 4 GolnHont qutn regardg the LGBT reprentatn *spoilers*Dark_Gunner 3 years ago#1I know that Kenji isn't exactly explicly said to be gay, and I know Naoto isn't explicly said to be trans or anythg but I am cur all the years later, if there's anyone actually wh those muni who n weigh on how well the game holds up reprentg those characters through that lens? It's been years sce I played , and I remember lovg that was clud at all a JRPG at the time but I'm a straight whe du who hontly n't say for sure if was done well or Maker 2: SteveKoopa: ID 6K7-PR2-TWGSmash Ultimate Mas: Sam, Lus, JokerChillGamer 3 years ago#2It don't actually do a good job reprentg trans or gay characters, bee while the begng the game wants players to thk this is what's gog on wh the characters, turns the narrative on s head. Kanji is not (necsarily) gay, he's jt aaid of beg perceived as feme bee of what (and who) he lik.