The Best RPG Romances

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the wake of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Kat is joined by Caty McCarthy and Eric Van Allen to talk about the best RPG romances. Which games do it best? What are their secrets? And most importantly of all... Triss or Yennefer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God
0:16.7	this game or's official RPG podcast.
0:18.8	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:20.8	Nadia is out today. Instead joining me are... I'm RPG podcast. I'm your host, Kat Bailey. Nadia is out today.
0:21.8	Instead, joining me are...
0:23.7	I'm Katie McCarthy, Features Editor at USGamer.
0:27.0	And I'm Eric Van Allen, News Editor at USGamer.
0:30.2	And today we are going to be talking about romance in RPGs,
0:34.6	in honor of Fire Emblem, Three Houses,
0:36.5	which actually does not have very good romance in
0:38.7	RPGs, but I feel like it's been a major topic of conversation. Yeah, it's, I feel like
0:43.0	people are still talking about Fire Emblem like there is these big romances. Like people are saying,
0:51.2	yeah, I want a romance Claude. I'm joining Edelgart or the whatever house because I want a
0:56.9	romance Edelgart. I feel like people are still talking about three houses like the romances are how
1:02.3	they were in awakening, which is interesting, because they're not that prominent in this game.
1:07.6	Yeah, no, they totally scaled them back quite a bit.
1:14.5	But at the same time, still we're talking about it. It made me think about how, for some reason, like looking to trip back through all
1:19.2	218 episodes of Acts of the Blood God, somehow we've never actually talked about
1:24.5	romances before.
1:26.5	And honestly, they're a big part of the RPG experience.
1:30.5	So we're going to take a little bit of a deep dive into various examples of romances and
1:35.8	RPGs through the years, talking about kind of what makes a good romance mechanic in an
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