There was definitely rightful concern over whether Rune Factory would ever include gay and lesbian marriage, especially considering the series has had difficulty simply including proper female protagonist options in its past. This was, however, limited to only straight relationships. Like other games in the series, Rune Factory 5 features marriage between your chosen player character and any one of the NPCs designated as a bachelor or bachelorette. Publisher XSEED Games released a localization blog entry confirming that the international version of the game will feature gay and lesbian marriage. Although patience is a virtue, the news was undoubtedly a bit disappointing considering the game released in Japan back on May 20 this year.īut it turns out the wait for the game release and even the three months wait for new information was worth it. The last time we got information about the localization of Rune Factory 5 was all the way back during E3 in June, and the main takeaway was that the game would be releasing in “early” 2022.
Rune Factory 5 takes a huge leap forward thanks to the hard work of XSEED Gamesįorgive the fourth wall break, but I had to take last week off from updating this blog-and what poor timing that happened to be! There were a lot of fantastic news updates all throughout last week, the first of which was about 2022’s international release of Rune Factory 5.