Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is heavily censored

[DivinePaladin]

outlawauron said:

DivinePaladin said:

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. 

But is part of the story. The entire game is about idols and the character are dressed how idols are dressed. There's nothing out of character or tacked on. 

If they made a volleyball game for the upcoming olympics, they're not going to cover up the players with more covering swimsuits just cause. They're dressed how beach volleyball players are supposed to dress. 

People get upset because these changes are being done for no reason. There's no battle to fight, because there's literally no force pushing these changes. This game flopped in Japan, and it's going to do terribly here too. Censoring the game in any way only serves to make the game divisive.

It makes it SEEM divisive because censorship is a hot button issue for the hundred or so people on this site. Don't act like the US media wouldn't jump all over this game if it released in the US with underage characters dressing inappropriately. The size of the game's fanbase doesn't matter, it takes one person to notice it for everything to explode. 

 

Not to mention that dressing to show cleavage and probably more at later points in the game ISN'T part of the story. Don't be ridiculous. Dressing up is, not WHAT they dress up in. These aren't uniforms and they're not standardized, which completely ruins your bit about volleyball.

 

By the way, Japan DID make a beach volleyball video game series, and guess what? There's an underage character THERE too, with gratuitous sexualization! And Nintendo refused to publish that game in parts of Europe because, and I'm not kidding here, child porn laws are very tough in some areas of Europe.