However, can looking at the sales numbers of other
censored games help us get a grip on what Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE's sales numbers are telling us?
The other games are only for Germany and not for the rest of EU (here in Poland, for example, we don't have problems with forbidden or
censored games... some of my friends in Germany buy games here or in Austria).
This came as a huge sigh of relief to many fans following a rash of
censored games on Nintendo platforms including Fatal Frame, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and the PR disaster that was the Fire Emblem Fates localization, which removed an entire gameplay mechanic, deleted hundreds of lines of dialogue, and what dialogue remained was criticized for being poorly written and rife with meme jokes.
Originally Valve sent out letters to developers claiming that they had two weeks to
censor their games or risk having them removed from Steam.
Triple - A Western titles like «The Witcher» and «Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus» have sexual content and / or nudity, but there's no word yet on whether or not Valve has asked larger publishers to
censor their games.
While I personally think that the issue of
censoring games during localization is important, and I trust many of you reading do as well, I wanted to see how many moralist dip - shits still clicked on the article just to come in an bitch about our wanting to discuss the issue.
Yet, they still find a need to
censor these games as evident by Nintendo and Atlus's new collaboration Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE where a number of changes were made to the game.
I will be the first to admit that I don't get the need to
censor games between Japan and the rest of the world, as the saying goes what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and it makes less sense the more the years go by.
When the arcade game Mortal Kombat was ported for home release on the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo decided to
censor the game's gore, but Sega kept the content in the game, via a code entered at the start screen (A, B, A, C, A, B, B).
The situation isn't helped by the fact that the government
censors any game that is deemed to go against China or Chinese law.
I will be the first to admit that I don't get the need to
censor games between Japan and the rest of the world, as the saying goes what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and it...
ZeniMax Asia's general manger Tetsu Takahashi spoke about the decision to
censor the game in Japan.
Nintendo was once the strictest company when it came to
censoring games.
Yes we will
censor the games (in the console credits), I think this is a good idea.
Not exact matches
That's why brands post their ads — as well as short teasers, extended versions, and trumped - up «
censored» versions — well in advance of
game day.
«But you can always make moderations to the
games so that it will pass the
censor.»
Since they're not a broadcast company, TNT isn't going to get fined for this, but they go to lengths to avoid accidental profanity on their NBA broadcasts — the
game is broadcast on a slight delay so somebody can
censor obscenities yelled by players picked up by the broadcast microphone.
The pair sponsored a bill
censoring violent video
games, a sop to the right Clinton loves to trumpet.
Outside city court, an attorney familiar with the Beacon City Court system said he believes the city's end -
game is not to
censor, but to make Beacon marketable.
It's an ok
game, I spend hours of fun playing this one, the only problem I found is the lack of options, just arcade, story and Xbox Live, and the fatalities are not what someone expect, and in the us version they're
censored.
Sure, Ubisoft did make that one good South Park
game once that got
censored into oblivion on half the planet, but that isn't exactly what we'd call tendency.
I think if they
censor the cleavage, that they may as well
censor other everyday things such as male chests and nipples because as a male
gamer I find that offensive.
If you want to accuse Apple of being a «
censor,» your only path to that is proclaiming the iPad's lack of support for Flash
games as being some kind of anti-Constitutional move to limit the freedom of those poor unfortunate souls who chose Adobe Flash as their creative platform.
The bigger question is actually more why these specific sections were
censored, considering just how perverse the rest of the
game is.
The upcoming South Park video
game, based on Matt Stone and Trey Parker's much - loved (and often reviled) comedy creation, will be
censored for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
I'd like the same consideration that not all
games need to be
censored because some children may get their hands on them.
There's a total of seven of relatively small sections of the
game that have been
censored, but to the developer's credit they've rolled with the punches by including blue screens giving a brief rundown of what's going on and poking a bit of fun at the whole situation.
Characters / costumes / missions are cut /
censored from
games before releasing internationally.
Can you give some examples of
games that weren't acceptable to you (for your kids) in their original form, but that companies
censored and then you felt that with those changes it was appropriate for your kids?
Speaking of those movies, one important difference is that adults and teenagers could get the full flavor version of the movies that has the original artistic vision intact but with
games once it is
censored everyone just gets the watered down version.
The
Game was
censored from the start for everyone it's not like only one region have to endure it.
I'd love something like that for Pokemon, except the only difference would be that the less
censored setting has
Game Corner.
Remember all the way to NES - SNES Nin schooled Square with
censoring so when Square decided to start making
games back on Nin's system they already knew the deal when making content like that on a Nin system.
I wouldn't want all my movies
censored for kids and that also goes for
games.
But I'm still picking this
game up but now we all know that the DQ for Switch is 100 % confirmed to be
censored just by this... smh!
Follow
Censored Gaming on YouTube for more comparisons and news on edits being made to video
games across the world.
NISA even admitted to not even sending in uncensored versions of their
games for rating before deciding to
censor everything.
Keen - eyed viewers of a recent Nintendo Direct in March noticed in the trailer for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE that Tsubasa Oribe's outift appears to be
censored in the western version of the
game to hide her cleavage.
Will the
game be
censored like its Japanese release?
Nintendo is the undisputed king of video
game censors, a title that extends back to the days of Mortal Kombat sweat, so the farther they are from the localization process for Tokyo Mirage Sessions, the better.
In any case, we'll all find out how much has been
censored out of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE when the
game releases on June 24th.
Unlike Halo, this concept is not a
game, but a controller - free motion
censor.
It's one thing if a
game is a remake or re-release of a long - time classic like the Final Fantasy VII Remake, (which, be warned, looks like it's going to be
censored as well), but if a western audience has no prior affections for a
game, as is the case with Tokyo Mirage Sessions, what do we have a right to know?
In case you hadn't noticed, the
game does seem to have a distinct taste of V for Vendetta - a
censor controlling dictatorship versus a couple of rebels who want to break the control of the corrupt system that enslaves the citizens.
So since this is build on the american 360 version does this mean that the
game is also slightly
censored?
Ports of old
games are common, but what's interesting about Resident Evil is how often Capcom has actually
censored, changed, modified, and added new material across its various iterations.
Valve have a long history of having to do the same with their
games, particularly Counter-Strike, in Germany, and the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be
censored as well.
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The Cut Content Police is a Steam Group with one goal: to warn people about
games that have been «in some way
censored due to cut, edited, changed, [or] modified content.»
«The right of certain organizations to effectively
censor video
games by refusing to rate them is a case of pure hypocrisy,» Krakowiak said, «Obviously there are laws that specify things excluded from the freedom of expression, like the Nazi ideology or encouragement to commit crimes.