So the primary sport the place I explored the choice of romancing the identical intercourse was Fallout 2, you may get married and discover the wasteland together with your beau. She’s not all that helpful, to be sincere, and has by no means been the companion I’ve picked on replays. But on the time, as an impressionable teenager, it was mind-blowing, proper? To be sincere, although, I didn’t make a ton of it on the time. It was extra, oh, this looks like some good mischief, let’s see the place it takes me, let’s see how lengthy I can preserve her alive, even. It wasn’t charged.
It wasn’t till Dragon Age, which I performed as an grownup, that the romance decisions in video games began signifying one thing completely different to me. Morrigan, the mysterious witch who joins your get together early on, virtually looks like a pretend romance selection. She’s designed to seize your consideration, there’s a latest (unlucky) quote by one of many DA writers that basically lays naked how a lot she’s meant to be the intercourse enchantment possibility. There’s one in each sport, actually, Mass Impact had Miranda. However the way in which Morrigan is written, the coyness at her heart, made me really feel like I used to be getting away with one thing. Enjoying as a person in all probability contributed to that feeling, as a result of IRL what I used to be doing was homosexual as hell however within the sport, it was extraordinarily straight. I’m certain it helped that the sport forces you to decide on between love pursuits, should you’re main them each on, one thing that solely enhances the drama.
Principally I appreciated that Morrigan is written in a method that makes it apparent she is aware of you’re wanting, because it seems, by the tip you discover out she was ensuring of it all the time. When the betrayal comes, it was weirdly satisfying: sure, I didn’t get what I needed, however Morrigan having it her method was true to her character. And what’s gayer than craving and tragedy, actually? — Patricia Hernandez, editor-in-chief
