It just gets parcelled up with all the other stuff the "woke" people are perceived to be removing from gaming. They want to replace your waifuslop of choice (be that a titty monster or a literal child) with a fat hijabi non-white lesbian amputee. It's the same teaming that happens with rw people under the auspices of free speech absolutism.
I remember there was some especially ridiculous drama in the Xenoblade community: some folks were getting up in arms about the international release of Xenoblade Chronicles X on Wii U "censoring" a young female character's outfit; it was changed from a barely-there string bikini in Japan to a crop top and shorts.
Not sure why folks were so intent on outing themselves over that; like, aren't there better hills to die on than that? Is that REALLY what you want to be remembered by?
I never actually played XCX, but I believe there was also a breast size slider for your custom character that was removed in the international release. (That change doesn't make as much sense IMO, as adult women have all kinds of breast sizes, often bigger than what games even allow these days.)
But giving the little girl more clothes is not just
acceptable, but is actually just
the right dang thing to do. I don't even see it as censorship as much as simply correcting something that was really weirdly wrong. (Alas, some people will say I'm being insensitive to Japanese culture; I don't care. Some things are just
objectively wrong.)
Not to double-post (I'm unfortunately outside of the edit window), but after mentioning Xenoblade, I'd be remiss to not mention that there's unfortunately a character in XC2 who's
heavily implied to be a lolicon as well.
While it's mostly used to make a mockery of him, it's used a bit too much as a humor point than it probably ought to be, like "oh look at this silly hamster-looking guy, LOL he's an otaku, ha what a weirdo, oh I bet he actually made his robot fighter girl to secretly be a sexbot, oh LOL he has maid outfits for her in his closet." The goofy music during the scene doesn't help it to not come across as mere comic relief… which unfortunately just serves to make light of his deviancy as "weird, but no big deal".
Later in the game, as part of an
optional event, it's discovered that he's got some "super-special armor" for his robot girl, which in actuality is some skimpy bunny outfit. (It's not shown, just explained via dialogue.) At least
then the other cast members condemn him pretty harshly over it.
It's disappointing, as I otherwise quite enjoyed XC2. But this (and things like it in other games—almost always Japanese) are blemishes that we perhaps get too comfortable looking past.
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