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Mr Khan on 04 September 2013
badgenome said:
Torillian said:

Never played Bayonetta all the way through but you're obviously right since they have all those angel enemies.  I guess Binding of Isaac just crossed a fairly liberal line.  That said, even that line should probably be taken out.  Let the consumer decide if it's something they don't want.

It sounds arbitrary, but I think they probably differentiate between dealing with religion in the somewhat fantastical way a lot of JRPGs do (including Nintendo's own Xenoblade, I'd imagine, if it's anything like the rest of the Xeno games) and doing so in a more pointed, satirical way like Binding of Isaac.

Xenoblade actually involved humans ascending to godhood and then proceeding to totally muck up the game world (retroactively, as it *is* the gameworld already. It's complicated. The woman was pretty cool with it, but the man was a total dick).



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osed125 on 04 September 2013
Torillian said:

Must be a grey area they allow or just an Eshop restriction because they just had SMTIV and I have a tough time believing that game made it the whole way through without any religious themes.

SMT IV touches religion in a more mythological way. The game never mentions a God of any specific religion, it's just God. And the demons are simple entities from different cultures which don't, or at least shouldn't, offend anyone.

Binding of Issac is about a mother who speaks to God and asks her to kill her son, all when watching the catholic channel. The difference is very clear.  



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