by Darryl E. Owens
War is brewing on the continent of F贸dlan, where the Church of Seiros preserves order, largely through its esteemed Officer鈥檚 Academy.
Yet, war isn鈥檛 the only thing raging on the fictional continent found in the Nintendo Switch game, 鈥淔ire Emblem: Three Houses.鈥�
There鈥檚 also the battle for more realistic representations of same-sex relationships, 海角社区 student Seth Budrik argues in his article, 鈥淪ocial Issues in Gaming: Fire Emblem: Three Houses and How Same-Sex Relationships are Represented.鈥�
Budrik interned this summer for the Esports and Game Design Collective (.) of Hunter College in New York. The group is a chartered undergraduate student organization and grassroots movement across North America 聽dedicated to helping students complete their education and find their place within gaming.
As part of his internship, the junior humanities major penned an analysis 鈥� his first published piece 鈥� an examination of same-sex gender politics in the popular role-playing game (RPG).
In his piece, Budrik observes, 鈥淚n Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Intelligent Systems made a better effort towards same-sex relationship representation, with characters that are not only confirmed to be gay(or at least bi-sexual), but with relationships that are executed properly. However, while Intelligent Systems seem to be moving in the right direction, the progress made here is not without its shortcomings.鈥�
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