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if you want to help bring the game to its uncensored former glory please help by signing the petition. https://www.change.org/p/free-stellar-blade?recruiter=10318792&recruited_by_id=07faa4d0-b5f1-11e4-950e-d7c455cd5529
If I can't masturbate to every character in every game, then what's the point of gaming?
I'm not agreeing with OP, but this isn't every game. Jiggle physics is a key feature here. It might as well be part of the gameplay loop. Surely we're supposed to masturbate to this game, right?
Literally unplayable.
In 2024, when we have fully rendered nudity and sex scenes that are just a camera tilt away from being pornographic in one of the biggest hits of the last decade, censorship of some cleavage on a plastic doll looking character and blood makes very little sense to me.
Yeah you can't say Euphoria is good while also saying sexy female protag bad (idk if that's the specific "hit" you were referring to).
Like fuck this conceot of delineating media based on sexual preference. It either has sexual content or it doesn't. As long as the content is above board, it's all just smut catering to different tastes and anyone who sees one as more appropriate than another is an asinine fool whose ability to vote and lack of critical thinking skills worry me.
As for the actual topic at hand, censoring of a sexual aesthetic rather than smut, I'm actually quite pleased to see that there is such little difference in the attire but very disappointed with how far they went to censor something so fucking mild. It hasn't hampered the game, but it impeded the aesthetic resulting in a bruised product where the designers' creative vision has been adulterated. Imagine if they went back and changed the Bayonetta attire for the original game like this, how different would the character look and how would that shift the tone for that character and the atmosphere around them? Their sexuality and attire are directly representative of the character being portrayed. If the argument is that there is no meaningful backstory that ties to the character's appearance or sexuality, well that's a matter of either piss poor writing or intentional story "neglect" to hopefully set up for some sort of reveal, otherwise you're basically playing an erotic Flash game you found on some porn site that's probably sharecropping your family's shared PC out to various wannabe hackers.
Anyway, nobody can pretend they did a good job censoring the artwork of a foreign studio to cover some cleavage and hips when wannabe actors are being praised for their work on glorified cable smut-- idgaf that HBO was behind it, they're behind Max too and I fucking hate that garbage.
And I'm convinced this is censorship. There was all this talk of censorship right up until the game's release, and now all of a sudden a change is made to the design last minute that obviously does not fit with the aesthetic. If this was "the version they'd wanted to show", I believe they would have at least left some sign or cleavage easily visible to keep the nuance in gameplay visuals. Instead, we have blatantly obvious censorship with half-assed lies to dispell any notion that there is more fresh drama to be mad about.
The Hard R part I understand fixing. The rest seems dumb to patch.
The fact that people are making a huge stink to put it back in the game though is pretty telling
I find the hard r thing hilarious, and I understand why it has to go.
Please go touch some grass
When has change . Org ever done anything but sell user data? Also it may be time to invest in a pc if you don’t like Sony deciding what you can and can’t see 🤷🏽
Dude just watch porn I'm begging you
I’ve seen no evidence that this was due to pressure from Sony. Also, if the only way you get off is absurd outfits on characters, you could just get a life instead of signing a useless petition.
Edit: considering how much shit this game got after trailers came out, maybe it’s not some grand conspiracy and just the company reacting to market demands? It’s fine when it’s the Sonic movie, but it’s TERRIBLE when they give a woman pants!
Ehhh it's grey for me. If the creators wanted it that way, then fuck censorship all around. We shouldn't as a society be scared of boobies.
However, then I'd say we should pressure them for overt sexualization.
Cyberpunk was censored because they had a gasp visible vagina if you manually removed all of Vs clothes and some countries mandated underwear. It wasn't overtly sexual, they wanted it to be truly a role playing game, you were V, you could look down your own pants.
it’s TERRIBLE when they give a woman pants!
Could add a toggle and make both camps happy, I suppose.
Yeah, we could do that with a bunch of porn films too. Just use this toggles!
That is basically what all the actually good VR porn games are, actually... Just a bunch of toggles to create your fantasies.
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I mean, if there's demand for it.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if there'll be generally-available generative AI software that can take existing video and change the clothing that someone is wearing, so while I don't know if it'd be a thing with porn films, it might be more-viable than one might think to have movie clothing variations.
There is already an AI to put "decent clothing" on women. https://dignif.ai/
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/dignifai-ai-covering-up-women
Sony has a history of censorship on games that were fine on pc. And who are you to tell people what they can and can't enjoy?
The whole reason why this game had such a massive large player count in the demo version was because it was following marketing demands ie. Gamemechanics, soundtrack, story, and attractive characters. You can't market the game as being "uncensored in all regions" and show trailers of the uncensored version of the game if your end product is actually censored.
Sony has a history of censorship on games that were fine on pc.
Do they? All I can think of is all of the PlayStation games that have come out with more gratuitous nudity that Sony didn’t bother censoring.
Yeah why would Sony have a hand in censoring it? There are a ton of tittyfull games on PlayStation. Dead or Alive and MGSV come to mind.
I’m sorry but what’s the difference? The only difference I see is the blood in the last picture.
If the censorship is about sex appeal; why do you care so much? It’s an action/ fighting game after all.
Want sex appeal, getting horny and have a hot steamy time? You know your actual site destinations.
Oh shit. I didn't notice the graffiti. Is OP complaining about racist shit getting taken out?
It's weird how some people claim to be sex positive but are just as prudish as the religious conservatives they rail against.
Would it help if she was 400 pounds? Then it's body positivity, and we're allowed to like that!
Op 🤡
fuck censorship
To be honest, I think the changed clothes and less splatter looks even better but maybe that because I really like lace lingerie and adding it to the outfit is therefore a huge plus in my eyes.