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In fact – this is the Tales series we are talking about, so this is important – their relationship is just as intimate as the male/female pairings of the other games, who also never kiss, or otherwise explicitly confirm their romance, but are assumed to be romantic by audiences anyway. Their relationship is too intimate to be sidelined, and teases just enough at romance to be accidental. Sorey and Mikleo transgress just being close buddies. That being said, Zestiria is decidedly not not gay, either. No kiss, no romantic declarations of love. Zestiria has no explicit confirmation of homosexuality. It’s possible to lose, it’s happened to me before.) Canon homosexuality is sparse in Japanese games, let alone when it affects the protagonist. Who am I kidding? Of course a mainstream Japanese video game isn’t going to have a canon gay relationship outside of the noble genre of pornographic BL/yaoi visual novels (which technically count as games, fuck you. I met Sorey, our upbeat protagonist, and Mikleo, his closest friend. They are solid games without quite ascending to masterpieces, but usually embedded with little gems of plot conceptualization and character dynamics that raise them overhead simply mediocre.Īt any rate, I had been a few years away from the series, but the siren’s call of alleged gayness in a more recent installment drew me back.Ī Steam sale later, and I finally got my hands on Tales of Zestiria. Lovely little anime games that bounce between cute and silly and darkly epic – though most of it will waiver in the awkward in-between. Bandai/Namco’s Tales series has always been quite the collection.