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Devil’s advocate- while we know for a fact Lolipop Chainsaw will be censored on every console and PC, there’s a chance Stellar Blade will be uncensored once it inevitably hits Steam.
Game Censorship & Localization General Thread
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If it ever does come to Steam. I hope the game will be played by more people. From what Im seeing from the sales numbers it seems to have done well. I could only imagine how big those numbers would be if they werent limited to the PS5.
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Modders will absolutely get their hands on it. if anything, Stellar Blade will be saved by that alone.
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Very late, but CORRECTION:
The cut dialogue was because Inti Creates (the developers) didn't want to commit to fully funding what a complete translation would cost, and kept it to just cutscenes instead. I wouldn't 100% absolve the localizers, because they did try to unironically claim "It's actually better this way!" (it was worse than the original script in every way), but they aren't the ones to blame for the actual decision. The stuff about all of their garbage changes to the content of the script remains true, though.
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I remember playing this after reading the manga and it has to be the most Working Designsified game ever. It's a good game. But they went too far. I recall that town in the bottom image has some of the weirdest dialog from examined objects. I understand changing jokes that would not make sense in English. But you should be careful with modern pop culture references. Clinton, Courtney Love ect... If you are a younger person playing these games you may have no idea why it's supposed to be funny even if you recognise the name. I'm reminded of watching sitcoms from the 60s and 70s and often being a bit lost about some of the pop culture jokes.
I remember a line of dialog in Alundra where a guy tells you to "Walk softly and carry a big banana". I only just realised that "stick" was changed to "banana" because the Murgg are monkeys. Clever. But how many kids got the altered Roosevelt quote joke? It went right over my head. Until literally this moment.
It might be one of WD's smarter inclusions. Maybe the original joke was incomprehensible to English speakers. I actually enjoyed Alundra's dialog. I think I said it before. But it's a much darker game that the cartoony graphics would make you think. A few odd jokes here and there lighten the atmosphere, which gets incredibly heavy.
Also there's a reference to Reiner, one of the game journos from a magazine. Can't remember which. But I hear there's usually a nod to him in WD games. There's a Reiner character in Dragon Force for example.
But with Magic Knight Rayearth they really overdid it. It's a magical girl story aimed at young girls. But I think they knew it might be the last Saturn game released in the west (and it was). So maybe they wanted to go out with a bang. It's still worth playing. There's an Unworked hack that reverts the difficulty and enemy speed. There's also an undub. But so far no one's done a retranslation. I'd love to see the script as it was intended some day.
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Man, these people are such pussies. Either the devs working on it or the suits at the top being too afraid to have a little bit of an edge anymore. I was really hoping they wouldn't butcher so much of the game (no pun intended.) I can't wait to see how they changed the fat cop bitch's model. Can't have any kind of satire or tongue-in-cheek parodies in our campy zombie game!
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Xenomorphs Are Cute
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I couldn't include it in my main comment, but they also put yellow paint everywhere.
It's like they're trying to make it as goysloppy as possible.
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The Communism thing isn't pandering to workeness so much as it is trying to remove anything that might be considered offensive to the CCP since they hope to market this in China.
Same reason Amazon changed the lore of Fallout from "China nuked the world" to "capitalists nuked the world for some reason."
This is the main reason I find it incredibly concerning that so many anti woke people are sucking off Wukong and going "wow China is so based and cool! They'll fight back against woke!"
China is ruled by incredibly censor happy genocidal Communists, they are not based or right wing and it's shocking to see so many anti woke grifters praise a country that has a fucking social credit system. They would throw you in prison for being a Western degenerate in like two seconds.
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I feel like this has gone beyond accessibility and is part of a new MK-Ultra experiment. It's not just paint they use, it'll be yellow coloured objects like tarps, cloths, rails and the like. It's everywhere in newer games and it does take away from "immersion" as they call it, older games had back in the day. They used to let you get lost, now you must follow the yellow brick road, use the yellow coloured box to climb up onto the yellow railings and follow the yellow arrows to get the yellow safe-house door. Even the fucking mugs are yellow, I hate it.
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Hell, getting lost was half the fun. You play a PS1/PS2 game like a 3d platformer (shit like the Spyro or Sly Cooper trilogy) that has a huge area to explore, of course your immediate instinct is to check every nook and cranny to explore and see what is and isn't possible.
Now it's like you can't even do that unless the game is explicitly an open-world game, and even then on some games you can't go all out because you have invisible walls blocking your way until you complete a quest or four.
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How do you even get lost in the food court? It's a tiny hub with very little stuff to do!
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To be fair, the food court boss confused me on my first playthrough. I assume that's true for others as well. Iirc, there's invisible walls everywhere you have to jump on a specific pile of boxes to get to the upper level.
The rest seems needless though.
If I remember right, based XSeed was mostly due to one guy pushing against censorship. When he left the company for greener pastures, those who were left immediately bent the knee to every demand.
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The death of proper level design. Why lead the player naturally with lighting and layout when you can just shoot your yellow paint jizz wherever you want them to go, training them like a pavlovian dog to just follow yellow paint instead of engaging with the game and its world. Was it Mirror's Edge that started this shit with it's runner vision? The industry takes the worst possible lessons from games.
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It's not even like making an object easier to discern is hard. You can use effects like blood trails which at least would not feel forced. You can barely see the yellow in the images.
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From what i heard, that same "one guy" went on to make Dolphin Wave and Kandagawa Jet Girls, but then suddenly went "fuck this" when Sony started getting draconian with their censoring.
Fun Fact, the latter game had some spicy promotion in the form of an anime
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Which is funny to me because the Kandagawa Jet Girls video game is rated T for Teen 13+ Meawhile, the anime is rated TV-MA 17+ for nudity. I guess if it wasn't for self-censorship due to Soyny's policies then the game would have been much more sexual/suggestive and would have gotten that M for Mature rating 17+
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Are you talking about wyrdwad?
www.youtube.com/user/Wyrdwad
twitter.com/wyrdwad_tom
I often see him on the comments section of random localization related YouTube videos. Also often commenting on "Censored Gaming" videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFItIX8SIs4zqhJCHpbeV1A
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What i find curious about 4Kids is that alot of the things they thought that needed to be removed were things that were always allowed on childrens television depending on age. I can't think of any specific examples but I would watch an old episode of Dexter's lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo etc. and I would spot countless of things that 4Kids probably would have censoired like the constant use oif words like "kill."
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