Falcom's long-running Legend of Heroes RPG series has a long history of queer representation.
Table of Contents There are few video games as long lived as The Legend of Heroes. Telling a continuous story for the past 20 years in over a dozen games, an anime, various manga, and other transmedia, the franchise has followed young heroes who fight for others by uncovering the tide of oppressive political forces shaping national borders. It’s the most — verbose and lighthearted, conflicts solved through both the power of friendship and international trade treaties.
A fraught history of inclusion From the beginning of The Legend of Heroes’ Trails series, Nihon Falcom was interested in the racial and ethnic diversity of its setting. Its RPG world features fictional counterparts to real world countries and cultures having a home on the map with different names, clothes, governments, and architecture. Trails in the Sky is set in a UK styled kingdom, complete with an old, benevolent queen.
And then there’s Angelica. The Trails of Cold Steel tetralogy would take players through an entire war in over it’s 300 some hours of story and reincorporate much of the main cast of past games somewhere in the journey. Following the students of an imperial academy who must rise to action during an international-turned-civil conflict, its incredibly large cast of classmates and students relies on archetypes to keep up.
“Cold Steel was over 10 years ago,” Renee notes of the game’s development. “A lot has changed in the past 10 years, even in real life in terms of how people publicly perceive queer culture, or queer characters, or queer people.”
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