“An Important Message for Nintendo Fans”
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Written by : SirSuperScoops
This post will contain minor spoilers.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of a little game called Fire Emblem Fates (or IF in Japan) for the 3DS. It’s the newest game in Nintendo’s long running RPG series. I’m a pretty big fan of the series so I imported it as soon as I could and have been having a blast. But unfortunately it’s stirred up quite a lot of controversy over the last few hours.
Now, I don’t want people to be turned away from playing this game because of some misguided viewpoints, so I felt like addressing the issue. Recently, a lot of (poorly researched) articles have been springing up on numerous websites such as the one above, and it’s no doubt a lot more are going to pop up in the near future.
Why should you care: - It’s wrong. This does not actually happen at all.
Link to the article above. (For obvious reasons, the link has been archived because I don’t think their website deserves to earn ad-revenue for spreading their misinformation)
Meet Soleil, the cheerful and energetic mercenary who shares her name with the sun.
- She isn’t too shy, but she can often get anxious about her surroundings.
- She loves her father Inigo (from FE: Awakening) and has a strong desire to protect him.
- Her cool, brash personality leads her to become very popular with girls and enjoys hitting on them in return. S
he’s also the worst singer in the army (but you didn’t hear it from me).
So why has Soleli caused such a riot? Well, for the sake of the plot her character is bisexual. Yep, you read that right. Bisexual. Interested in both genders a.k.a NOT a lesbian. Or at least that’s what we’re told at the beginning of her story.
As a matter of fact, as we progress further we find out that she was never even a lesbian to begin with. She just has an infatuation with cute girls. Soleli likes men. She’s 100% straight.
In-game she doesn’t even have a lesbian marriage option either. Without spoiling too much, she pretended this way to get revenge on her father but ended up regretting it when it became a habit
If you’re playing as a male, one of Soleil’s support quests boils down to helping her get over a certain mental obstacle.
As it turn out, Soleil has been getting distracted by all the cute girls in the Fire Emblem universe, so much so that she ends up fainting whenever she sees one.
As you can expect, fainting in the middle of combat isn’t ideal, so she asks the main character to help her. After a short sequence of events, the main character secretly uses magic on Soleil that causes her to perceive all females as males and vice-versa, under the implication that her recovery wouldn’t work if she knew what was happening in advance.
It’s also worth noting that after the support quest, Soleli doesn’t detest the main character from hiding it from her. In fact, she thanks him because it helped her overcome her predicament.
What people are up in arms about is the misinterpretation of the entire ordeal.
People have been spreading that she’s trying to “cure her lesbianism” when this just isn’t the case (keep in mind we still think she’s bi at this point). She’s trying to stop getting distracted by girls because it’s literally preventing her from performing on the battlefield.
At the end of the questline the magic’s effects essentially become nil; she’s still very flirtatious with cute girls, but she’s come to treat men with the same attitude.
To conclude, Soleli can now face cute girls in combat without passing out from their adorableness. MISSION COMPLETE
How did this all come about?
This scene’s dialogue, along with a bunch of others, was translated late last week and posted on 4chan by a person who was accepted by the board as being correct. Over the next couple of days, the translations were shared across social media landing in the hands of Reddit and Tumblr.
…how this fiasco started.
Almost every article I’ve seen has referenced this random Tumblr post one way or another, which honestly really confuses me since after I did a little researching, I discovered that she doesn’t even own the game, nor has translated any of the in-game dialogue herself. It seems that the author intentionally misinterpreted their dialogue to create some negative premonitions against the game, rustling a few jimmies in the process.
After being spread around a lot, I imagine a lot of journalism sites picked up on the story without doing any fact-checking themselves and decided to run with it.
I admit, her role in this whole affair has been pretty small. But at the end of the day, I think it’s worth discussing what should be considered a “reputable source” in today’s media. It’s quite silly how one girl’s ramblings added more controversy to the future of this game’s English localisation.
The Tumblr post in question: https://archive.is/YHkSM
What’s going to happen next?
Realistically, with all the backlash we’re seeing I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo decided to censor this game in response to the complaints they’re receiving.
It’s unfortunate, not because the game or subject matter was “bad”, but because the bad writing/translations made the game seem like it was.
Regardless, is the game any good?
Yes. This game is amazing.
If you’re a fan of epic fantasy tales or role-playing in expansive worlds you’ll find a lot to love in this title. It’s very much like other games in the series, but it also addresses a lot of complaints people had with the previous game “Awakening” such as the smaller scale of the story and the lighter difficulty, which rest assured is now as challenging as it should be.
There’s even an optional new “Phoenix Mode” which allows you to revive fallen units in their next turn, making it more accessible for newcomers to the series.
It’s all very fun, I definitely recommend it.
Thanks for reading everyone! I hope I made this easy to understand.
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