Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is heavily censored

[DivinePaladin]

outlawauron said:

DivinePaladin said:
If a game is designed with adult characters Nintendo has been shown generally to be all for the risqué outfits (they ENCOURAGED the cleavage on Bayo Link). It's when the characters are kids that problems arise in localization. If Japan wasn't ostensibly in love with scantily clad preteens we'd have no localization issues.

Idols in this game aren't pre-teens. The fashion of the characters that they're chaning are kinda core to their profession and the theme of the game. 

Ugh, the suggestion that anyone who doesn't like for Nintendo to screw with the game during localization should just go look at porn is incredibly stupid. 

When I'm speaking of a greater "issue" than this one game, I'm not referencing only this game. Xenoblade had a 13 year old girl dressed pretty inappropriately. The main cast of this game was designed to be 17 in Japan, but some are given risqué outfits. This is a series where you fight dick monsters, it was never a censorship issue here - it's an issue of where you fight your battles in localization. Do you fight FOR underage characters being designed as sex figures (what does it say about you as a developer if you DO make that argument?) or do you let that go because it's 100% irrelevant to the game and because it's completely understandable to adjust something so minor because it can cause a big stink in another market that is less accepting of this sort of thing? Not to mention the fact that they're shooting for a T rating because the whole point was to market to both audiences in the crossover, and last I checked FE skewed a tad young in its fanbase. Dropping the rating is the best way to market a game that already has a good chance of ending up scalped to all hell within a month. 

 

I agree though, the porn comparison is ludicrous. Child porn isn't easily accessible (thank god), and there's no ostensible reason people would be complaining about this unless this was their way of projecting their desires upon underage video game characters, or unless they're being entitled babies about a non-issue. To those people, I say speak with your wallet. Don't buy the game if underage cleavage is what you're looking for in an RPG. If that's the case, try Neptunia.