Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues with a lovely piece from Alex Meehan, on visual novel Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers and how it helped her explore the joy in her bisexuality
Hello! Once again Eurogamer is marking Pride Month with a week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming. This afternoon, Alex Meehan shares her experiences playing visual novel Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers and how it helped her explore the joy in her bisexuality.
I only realised I might not be straight when I learned about bisexuality. I knew I was attracted to men, but I'd never toyed with the notion I could be also attracted to women until I began meeting queer people who were out. Being around queer people gave me the courage and the clarification I needed to put all the puzzle pieces together and accept I was bisexual.
Despite including plot-lines that do centre around self-doubt and mental illness, queer identities are never the cause of this in The New Challengers. The queerness in the game is purely a source of joy for me: interacting with other queer characters, seeing them confident in their identities, it gives me courage.
The lack of consequences to being bisexual in The New Challengers means I never feel like I'm going to screw things up or not perfom in the way I'm sometimes pressured to in the real world. I can hamfistedly put the moves on Locksley in one playthrough, whilst sweetly flirting with Grace in another, and feel like both of these 'realities' could exist.
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