The U.S. and European versions of the JRPG sequel to Fire Emblem: Awakening, Fire Emblem Fates, is receiving a change in dialogue that stirred a lot of controversy in Japan when it was released last year. The line in question dealt with a female character that was a possible romance option for the player. The scenario has players interacting with female npc Soleil, a female character attracted to the same sex. If your main character was a male, there was an option to give Soleil a powder that tricks her for a time into see men as women and women as men. When this wears off, the characters states that she fell in love with the female version of the main character and will propose to him. This immediately lead to players being upset, calling it a form of conversion therapy as well and in an announcement this morning courtesy of Nintendo World Report, Nintendo stated that there will be "no expression which might be considered as gay conversion or drugging" in the localized version. Nintendo has yet to reveal how the removal of the dialogue will effect the interaction with Soleil and if she will remain a romance option for the protagonist.
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