Red Dead Redemption, ostensibly a gritty open-world Western about doing bad things as a bad cowboy, became a horse girl game for many players as well. My Horse Prince, a 2016 Japanese mobile game, brought the horse girl genre into otome game land and allowed you to romance horses with the face of hot anime guys. In tandem with the evolving ironic evolutions of horse girls, the horse girl game genre expanded as well. The horse girl membership itself also started extending to unexpected communities, like the well-documented obsession of My Little Ponies by Bronies, dudes who are really into the toys and characters from the animated show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Celty from Durarara! - an Irish fairy that’s as adult as you can get (and perhaps even immortal) - rides an equally immortal horse called Shooter disguised as a motorbike, proving you can still have a horse even when you’re old as hell and living in the city rather than the countryside. Tina would be proud.īut over the years, there have been creative subversions of the horse girl adolescence. As Lynn transitions into a “Lady,” Andrews is her crucial companion. In a more esoteric example, Lynn’s beloved horse in 90s manga Hello Lady Lynn, Andrews, functions as an integral part of her coming-of-age narrative. Pegasus visits Chibiusa in her dreams: an in-between state metaphorically parallel to Chibiusa’s suspension between childhood and pubescence. In Sailor Moon, Chibiusa - Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba’s future kid - is attached to Pegasus, a guy who can take on the form of a winged horse (technically a unicorn). Horse girls didn’t necessarily need to own a horse - otherwise, this would shrink the horse girl citizenship quite a bit due to the prohibitively expensive costs of raising one - but they likely owned a Lisa Frank journal with lots of equestrian-themed art on it, possessed strong feelings about the movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and collected the entire Little House on the Prairie book series.īeing a horse girl was often tied to nostalgia, a symbol of girlhood that rarely carried over into adulthood. Broadly speaking, the term “horse girl” itself emerged into cultural consciousness in the 2000s. I give full credit to Katie Chironis’ viral meme comparing Elden Ring and the various Barbie Horse games for opening my third eye and giving me the language for how I’ve been taking Torrent on walks.īut first, what is a horse girl game? Once upon a time, horse girl games were limited to the slew of Barbie-themed horse games on the Nintendo DS and mobile games like My Little Pony: Magic Princess. Just me and my horse, Torrent Torrent and me. Think Barbie Horse Adventures Riding Camp, but instead it’s Elden Ring Riding Horse Camp: Tarnished Edition. In between getting slaughtered in hilarious level 15 PVP fights and facing constant death, I’ve recently taken to playing Elden Ring like a horse girl game. (Ranni, if you’re reading this, know I’m on my way to you soon.) Perhaps even a wife or two to put a ring on. There’s plenty of lore to excavate in the main quest line and NPC side quests. Just get one of those fingers and invade away. The beauty of Elden Ring is that you can play it any way you want.
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