But Naughty Dog has the money and resources to get their way. Remember in the ps1 days when Sony didn't want 2d games on their system, but Mega Man 8 and X4 got through because Capcom threatened to pull Resident Evil 2? I imagine this situation is similar to that.
Plus it's a first party game that gets them many rewards at rewards shows of course they aren't going to compromise that "vision"
That's probably the reason behind the decision in the first place. The game is full of shocking content that warrants a trigger warning.
The game boots up with a trigger warning, for what it's worth, though it's a bit vague
Sony actually puts out that stuff themselves on mobile. And I'm not talking about SME/Aniplex, I'm talking about SIE/Forwardworks.
The Plus version also includes a new feature where you can turn on an optional content warning it gives specific content warnings ahead of the scenes in question and gives the player an option to skip the scene if they'd rather not see it.
The fact that Sony has been specifically targeting Japanese games has been known for quite a while, most people on here sadly don't care though because it has up until now largely only affected niche Vita/PS4 games they don't care about.
Honestly I'm fine with that sort of thing too.
You can be an adult in high school. I was 18 for my entire senior year.
Provide examples of alterations Sony forced some of these companies to make that you think are unfair. You're ignoring the very large elephant in the room that a lot of Japanese games have questionable content, especially relating to underage characters, if that's what's being targeted (and to my knowledge it is) I'm bemused that it would be labelled racist.
because nobody was willing to make it because until some more recent examples it was about pandering and sexualization, it wasn't till the gore blood and stuff started getting censored that it actually started to get actually talked about, because it is now extending passed that and that is really ironic
It's really well done. You access the extra story content, the pictures you unlock and the music through that virtual OS. It feels like it's implemented in this way to give you these items in a fun way, nothing more. You can navigate game files but it just feels like an 'aesthetic' choice rather than a vital part of the game playing experience.
For clarification as someone not terribly familiar with Naruto, was Minato's arm being cut off visible in the game, or did Sony have an issue with the depiction of someone with a missing limb?
It's been years since Naruto ended so I'm not sure when Manato's arm was cut-off in the story, but judging from the translation, it seems like they had a problem with him visibly missing an arm and not just the act of it being cut off. They added another character in the game who doesn't have an arm with the DLCs and they've tried their best to cover that missing arm most of the times during normal gameplay and special moves, probably to avoid having a similar problem with Sony.
Oh. That just...seems like ableism then. I looked up the character to see if he walks around with a gruesome wound visible, but it doesn't look like it. I'd like to think that game companies like Sony wouldn't view people with missing limbs as abominations that can't be put on screen.
Minato was a "zombie", by the way. A doll really, a sentient doll. There was absolutely no blood. In the show. There wasn't supposed to be blood.
Ninja Storm 4 used the end of Shippuden as it's story mode. In the anime/manga, Minato (Naruto's dad) was brought back to life as a zombie, and one of the perks of being a zombie was that it made you totally immortal. If any part of your body was destroyed (like if, your head was blown clean off), it would bloodlessly disintegrate into ashes, and then the ashes would float back and perfectly re-form into the destroyed body part.
I see. Yea it seems like they wanted to sell to a wider audience. I wish they went the Capcom route and had a CERO Z version as well, but we are going off topic now.
Nothing they've said backs up their point of racism. "The crux of the problem is that these policies have only been enforced on Japanese or Japanese-aesthetic games. That's targeted, and unless Sony can give an adequate explanation why it's not hard to come to the conclusion it comes down to the country of origin." Like no shit Japanese games are being affected more than western ones because there's more problematic content in them when it comes to underage characters? Do EA games have half naked thousand year old lolis? Are Rocksteady going to release a Senran Kagura or a Criminal Girls? C'mon.
Of course I don't know the full story, but this sounds rather xenophobic or ignorant to a certain non-western culture because it seems strange, than exclusively racist to me. Racism defines the ideology that culture or behavior has somehow to do something with physical appearances.
I did not know this game had underage characters shown in that way, as I do not play this type of game. The impression I've seen in the thread point that the game has mature themes such as self-harm, isn't even targeted at children but to adults, and got censored in the most obscure way (changing the color of the blood), but a game like TLOU2 which was even more gory and gruesome than a cartoon gets a much better pass.
I'm aware but this is useless pedantry. It remains that high school is associated with being a child and not an adult and why it is the chosen venue for the game. It is a transparent CYA. Once again, I'm not saying DDLC is doing anything gross* but that scenes of self-harm amongst people we generally consider underage is not common in games and so that's why I think comparisons of "this okay but not this" misses the mark because there's little point of comparison.
Theres a crazy amount of 2D games on PS1. I have no idea what that dude is talking about.
IIRC, the story is Bernie Stolar at SCEA pushed back against localizing lots of 2D games because he felt it undermined the big selling point of the PS1 (3D).
In the early days of the PS1 SCEA (the American branch specifically, the European and Japanese divisions had no problems with 2D) did not want 2D games on the platform because they viewed PlayStation as a 3D-focused console and wanted to demonstrate its strengths in that department over the Saturn. They blocked numerous games from being localized in America (like Rapid Reload which was a European launch titles, the PS1 Atelier titles, numerous other niche 2D RPGs etc.) unless they were from a big publisher that could afford to throw their weight around and had leverage. They didn't ease up on the restrictions for several years. All of this is public knowledge and has been talked about for many years from people who had problems trying to get games localized at the time and were told they couldn't by SCEA.
