Raising a Girl With Agency: Long Live The Queen versus Needy Streamer Overload
What does it take to raise a girl? According to one genre of games … it takes day-to-day event scheduling to get all the right stats in all the right places.
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Indie developer Foxglove Games on queer representation and their new visual novel Trouble Comes Twice
Foxglove Games, a new developer on the scene and based in Europe, is working to add to this diversity of representation with their forthcoming visual novel Trouble Comes Twice. This new game, currently in development, offers players two distinct queer characters to play as, twin siblings Jace and Hazel.
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I Am One Yet Many: Plurality representation in the When They Cry Series
The horror genre has historically stigmatized mental health conditions, but Ciconia normalizes plurality and frames it as explicitly positive, making me feel comfortable in trying to express myself as plural.
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How Kindred Spirits on the Roof both represents and exploits queer teen girls
The first time I read Kindred Spirits on the Roof, I was surprised and even grateful, because it often felt like the game was speaking to my questioning teenage self. It attempts to honestly portray queer female relationships, but sometimes blurs the line between depicting attraction and sensationalizing it.
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How Otoge Helped Awaken My Oto-Gay
Accepting that you’re not what’s considered “normal” by society is never easy. For me, it was accepting myself as a man romantically attracted to other men. Surrounded by a culture hostile to anybody that didn’t fit the cishet norm, I discovered myself through something very unlikely: otoge, or otome games.
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From Princes to Pigeons: A Beginner’s Guide to Otome Games
In the world of video games, anything is possible. You can be a cavegirl dating pigeons in a post-apocalyptic romantic dramedy, or someone helping humanized swords fight against historical revisionism, or you could even be a gender-nonconforming barista at a cat cafe. In other words, you could be playing an otome game.
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How a game about a Ladykiller helped me out of a bind
Ladykiller in a Bind struck me on a very personal level. I’m a trans woman who is butch enough and scared enough that, while I am out in every other part of my life, I am not out at my workplace. Even coming out to my friends took incredible effort.
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Commentary vs. Snuff: Sex, violence, and despair in Danganronpa
Throughout visual culture all over the world, sex and violence against women are constantly intermingled.
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A Damned Good (First) Time: Sex positivity in Cute Demon Crashers!
With a myriad of of erotic games in existence—many of them featuring questionable consent or sexual assault—both the writing and gameplay of Cute Demon Crashers refreshingly embody the core principles of sex positivity, making for a uniquely positive player experience.
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Cardia Wears the Pants: Fashion and agency in Code: Realize
There’s a lot to love about Code: Realize, but a major part of its appeal is its heroine. While many otome games have meek, passive heroines, Cardia grows into an active protagonist who takes control of her own narrative. A significant part of this transformation comes when she trades in her gown for pants, a rare and welcome move for female characters all across anime.
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My Fave Is Problematic: School Days
Yes, really. I imagine at least some of you took one look at the title I chose and ran as fast as possible in the other direction.
