Japanese Gamers drag western PC culture after SO5 censor
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In the interview, Star Ocean 5 character designer Akira Yasuda, director Hiroshi Ogawa, and producer Shuichi Kobayashi revealed that not only is the studio aware of western criticism of revealing female character designs, they’ve made changes to the game because of that very same western criticism.
“Recently there’s been a trend in games where if you put out a character that shows a lot of skin, later on you might have to make a lot of revisions, ‘although she’s erotic, there’s not a lot of skin showing’ is the feeling you get,” said Yasuda.
“In fact, it got a rating of C by CERO (Editor’s Note: Cero C is ages 15 or older),” Yasuda continued. He explained why the game’s spellcaster, Fiore, is wearing such a revealing outfit. “Fiore uses a lot of displayed crests on her skin to cast curses. That was part of her setting."
Finally, the developer confirmed they’ve slightly censored the game, in the form of Miki’s panties. You can view a comparison above, with the first image before the change, and the second image after the change.
“Recently, there’s been a lot of flak from overseas countries saying that if you put teens in ‘sexual’ underwear it’s not good,” said Kobayashi. “So we increased the amount of clothing.”
“How distressing (laughs),” Ogawa said in a follow up.
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It's not like we were pandering for this game to begin with…
Y'all can keep it if you want…
They already took DOAX3 from us, and you wanna talk about censoring…?
The people that complain about this are so gross and don't understand what localization entails. It's not just translating, another large part of localization involves adapting the game to the market it is intended for release. There are certain cultural references that are swapped out, name changes, etc. This is just one of those adaptations - it's taboo in the west for barely legal looking girls to be dressed so scantily.
