I love Clock Tower and games inspired by it, but dear lord, never heard of this one before, and this announcement confused and came out of left field for me. Looked into it more, and I found a thread of people complaining about the character designs being too ridiculous... And that was it. I literally couldn't find much of anything else, which is pretty telling since almost always whenever gamers get really angry at a developer they almost never shut up. I tried looking to see if the censorship was instead concerns about China to prevent a situation like Devotion, since someone replied in a tweet the dev is from China, but I can't seem to verify that.
Literally the only public reaction things I found about this game are that people don't like how dumb some characters look due to weird designs and nothing related to an outcry or major revolt whatsoever. I legitimately think this announcement was really just done to be a PR move to get the weeb gamer crowd that are mad about stuff like Gal gun getting canned on XBOX to go to their side, even though this game isn't even one that I'd consider controversial in the same sense and I bet if they said nothing about such nobody would even have issue with the game.
Yet the devs decided to make a huge statement and blow it out of proportion, even though death threats are still 1000% NOT OK and I won't doubt that happened since people are awful and I would sadly, not be surprised if it did considering how many devs I've known who've gotten threats for the stupidest of reasons. Not really gonna touch this game now if this is the audience they're catering to.