@Bunni89

1 year ago

The boy and girl versions of Swordcraft Story actually ARE different, the girl has loads of dialogue changes where her dialogue is more comedic while the male protagonist dialogue is more generic JRPG hero. Pretty much every time you see a really funny line from the protag, that's a route change! Its actually extremely impressive how many changes there are because there's 8 whole routes, the four different summon creatures all have varying dialogue in certain scenes depending on gender. The lesbian romance is also VERY MUCH NOT 'unintentional', I was kinda laughing my ass off at 'don't go into this with the standards of something intentional'. One of the earliest route changes is that you in fact only get a kiss scene with Sugar if you're playing as a girl, and all of her scenes are longer in length on her lesbian route than the straight equivelant. The girl protag has more dialogue in a lot of scenes actually, if anything it seems her route was the favoured one by the developers. Female protag dating Sugar was also the route chosen for the official novelization of the game, and the game even has their "I kiss other girls all the time" screenshot right on the back of the box, haha! The second game also has gay routes for both boy and girl, and even a nonbinary character which is hella ahead of its time for the early 2000s. So I'm pretty sure being super LGBT inclusive was an intentional thing and the games were in fact not aimed at a teenage boy audience lol. I won't disagree though on the quality of the romance routes being a bit sparse and rushed, but I think its more because they tried to cram so many routes into the game that none of them is exceptionally long, rather than not caring about fleshing out the gay options. It's completely understandable to assume that it was a "accidental lesbian option cos the girl route was rushed" situation if you hadn't played multiple routes, but I think maybe checking if you're correct before criticizing the game for it might have been better. Cos its a review of niche games, people watching this probably wouldn't know that what you were saying is incorrect, and might give the game a miss. I hope this comment didn't come off as rude, I just really like this game and the good replay value of the route differences is a huge reason why. So I just wanted to help tell people about it, in case it helps. Thank you SO much for mentioning the game in your video, every time a big youtuber talks about it is like lifeblood being breathed back into the fandom! Oh also you seem to have accidentally used footage from the third game while talking about the second game, so its worth adding that a fan translation of that game is in progress and has released a demo with the first day of gameplay! If anyone else is interested in that, I'd greatly reccommend it!

323 |