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I hope they get rid of those restrictions completely.



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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.

edit: actually I wonder what the line is.  Would something like Catherine which was largely not about religion but had things like confession booths and some religious overtones count?  What about games that just make up fake religions but use those as a way to comment on religious faith in general?  Probably has to be pretty blatant otherwise I feel like we would have heard of this getting in the way of games coming to Nintendo platforms before.  



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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.

Ditto for Bayonetta 2. But I think the way they deal with religion isn't really as likely to stir up a shitstorm as Binding of Isaac.



badgenome said:
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.

Ditto for Bayonetta 2. But I think the way they deal with religion isn't really as likely to stir up a shitstorm as Binding of Isaac.


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.  



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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.



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Torillian said:
badgenome said:
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.

Ditto for Bayonetta 2. But I think the way they deal with religion isn't really as likely to stir up a shitstorm as Binding of Isaac.


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.  


I thought this had to do more with parents complaining than the consumers.



MDMAlliance said:


I thought this had to do more with parents complaining than the consumers.


I'm sure it is about parents being likely to complain, but you shouldn't keep these kind of things off your platform entirely just because it'll annoy some people.  Long as the previews and summary for it in the store aren't directly offensive using probably the same standards they use for selling any M rated game I think it should be allowed on.  



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badgenome said:

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)

It isn't. Thank God.

c wut i did ther?



noname2200 said:

It isn't. Thank God.

c wut i did ther?





They should make no restrictions at all. I also think that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft should all allow the AO rating, so games would not get censored as much.