[Mod/Romhack Trope] Genderbent PCs

[u/Shayden998]

When fans of video games want to be able to see playable characters of a different gender, so they use modding or romhacking to make it happen. Not necessarily a gender bend of he original character(s). I just couldn't think of a better name.

• Persona 3 Reload: Back when Persona 3 was ported to the PSP in the form of Persona 3 Portable, they chose to add a FeMC route to the game. This wasn't just a model change either; Social links were completely different as were several story events and even the personality implied through your dialogue options was notably different from the Male MC. So, when reload got made and didn't include her because "it would be too much work", fans took matters into their own hands by creating a mod that alters events, changes music and even the the opening intro to give the full FeMC experience you might have expected if Portable's FeMC had made it to the new remake. In fact, this is so popular that both 4 and 5 also have people working on FeMC mods.
• Earthbound: The rest of these are going to be a lot more simple. This is a romhack for the Earthbound that changes Ness's sprite along with altering dialogue to reflect a female Ness. Interestingly, there are essentially two versions of this hack. One that makes the change universal, and one that maintains Ness's original sprite in a certain flashback.
• Sonic Generations: Several Sonic games have received transfem mods/hacks over the years, from Sonic 2 all the way to Unleashed. But from what I've seen, the Sonic Generations mod feels like the OG that inspired a lot of the others.
• Final Fantasy: A very niche romhack, I'd imagine, is for the original Final Fantasy on the NES that changes all of the class sprites for the warriors of light and some of the dialogue adressing you, the player, to reflect a female party.

Am I using this post as a way to get other people to find mods/hacks like this for me? Yeah. Just a little. But I also do reallly like this genre of mod and wanna see as many examples of it as I can. I know I missed some obvious examples, but I wanted to include some lesser known examples without bloating the main post too much.

[u/Lazerninja88]

Kotone fans are a different breed i swear. Praise be the [r/churchof](r/churchofkotone)[femc](r/churchofkotone)