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Nintendo Removes Controversial Scene From Fire Emblem Fates

Nintendo Removes Controversial Scene From Fire Emblem Fates

Ok, so it’s not quite as creepy as I made it sound in the subtitle. There’s a character in Fire Emblem Fates named Soleil who apparently tends to get a little weak in the knees and faint when she’s around beautiful women. It’s become a problem on the battlefield. It appears that if you’re playing as a male protagonist and develop a potential relationship with Soleil, there’s a scene where you slip a magic powder into her drink without her knowing, and it causes her to see men as women, and women as men. This is done to help her overcome her mental blocks, but after falling in love with the protagonist as a woman, she discovers that she loves him as a man as well.

Nintendo, with cunning foresight, has decided to exercise a bit of discretion with the western release of Fire Emblem Fates by removing this scene. It seems that it saw potential for audiences to interpret this scene in a negative way, seeing it as some kind of homosexual conversion therapy or drugging. Nintendo made the following statement in regard to the matter: “In the version of the game that ships in the U.S. and Europe, there is no expression which might be considered as gay conversion or drugging that occurs between characters.” While I’m never happy about art being altered to avoid offense, I am glad that I won’t have to put up with potentially dozens of backwards protests and complaints from parents once the game is released next month.

Source: Nintendo Life

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