Fire Emblem Fates’ Western localization edits out ‘gay conversion’ and ‘drugging’ scene

Nintendo is cutting off the potential for renewed controversy with its new Fire Emblem game by editing a scene that caused some Japanese players to refer to it as homophobic.

Fire Emblem Fates will not include a scene where the character Soleil is drugged in an effort to convert her into a heterosexual (as Nintendo World Report first wrote about). In the 3DS strategy role-playing game, which is due out in North America on February 19, Soleil is a warrior who is sexually attracted to women. But the game has a scene where if the player pairs her up with a man, he’ll spike her drink (without her consent) with a potion that makes her see women as men and men as women. When the drug wears off, Soleil reveals that she fell in love with the female version of the male protagonist, and that love has carried over now that she sees him as a man again.