I am tired of this but sadly there is nothing but shit like this out there, at least in games. Yes I do ship ships like Fluri and Sormik, but I also know they will never be canon, it will either always be “open to interpretation” or straight up backpaddle into a straight ship. I cant speak about Arise cuz I havnt played it (and probably never will because for whatever reason they apparently removed the multiplayer option) but Im not sure why people are surprised? also Im bamboozled how people are happy with “interpretation” and “subtext” which mostly is imagining things that arnt there, or the author leaving things vague enough to gain lgbt players while not alienating the heteros too much. Why the fuck is it that the surprisingly progressive and wholesome game gets so much hate when its no worse than any other semi mediocre game? Look I don't care if you like arise and what have you, my problem is the devs need to stop blaming a game that a lot of people love for personal reasons for lost trust when it all only happened because of bad marketing, bad backtracking, bad damage control AND bad dicksucking of the deranged Alisha simps who can't write a narrative cause their hands are stuck in their dorito bags for the anime adaptation. You took Arise and completely removed the entire concept of subtext and space for interpretation and made it het as fuck.Īlso zestiria's story and mechanics problem? Yea many games have that but I don't see it being blown as out of proportion as this game. Even Berseria had a lot of subtext and despite everything that I dislike about it, had strong af characters. There were no jokes at the expense of women and they all had an existence and character outside of the men.
Zestiria was as close to a canon mlm romance one could get from the entire franchise. "we wanted to gain back the lost trust from Zestiria" bitch, you wanted to gain back the lost trust? All your games at least felt inclusive with some space for identification for lgbt folk with subtext and stuff.
Its so weird that the Tales of devs are so hung up on making Zesty the worst thing in the world because of how much they fucked up with trying to backtrack and how much of a whiney mess the dude bros side of the fandom became.