@Quick_Man The rape thing isn't exclusive to PC98, the plot involves characters being mind-controlled by a virus and you curing the characters with your sperm. This exists in the PCEngine version and I think in the Saturn version too, the rape just isn't explicit, but at least in the PCEngine it's pretty clear what's happening because of the dubbing.
@Norsaken
Torturing, mutilating, violently and painfully killing innocent people is okay, but touching the private parts of criminals without their consent to rid the world of a deadly virus is where we draw the line, right?
There is no logic whatsoever that justifies banning one and not the other; this is just moral panic. Making a topic disappear from our culture does not make it cease to exist.
On the contrary, it is by approaching it in different ways, experiencing the positive and negative feelings it brings through fiction, talking about it, interacting with it that we digest and work through it and develop as a society.
Morbid curiosity is part of being human, and while we do it for entertainment, we still learn a lot from it.
@-wc- This is a matter of semantics. A private company licensing and altering the content of a Japanese game to sell to a different audience in another country could be called cultural appropriation or some specific type of cultural vandalism.
It may not be censorship in political context, but it is perfectly valid to use the term colloquially.
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Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@Quick_Man The rape thing isn't exclusive to PC98, the plot involves characters being mind-controlled by a virus and you curing the characters with your sperm. This exists in the PCEngine version and I think in the Saturn version too, the rape just isn't explicit, but at least in the PCEngine it's pretty clear what's happening because of the dubbing.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@Norsaken
Torturing, mutilating, violently and painfully killing innocent people is okay, but touching the private parts of criminals without their consent to rid the world of a deadly virus is where we draw the line, right?
There is no logic whatsoever that justifies banning one and not the other; this is just moral panic. Making a topic disappear from our culture does not make it cease to exist.
On the contrary, it is by approaching it in different ways, experiencing the positive and negative feelings it brings through fiction, talking about it, interacting with it that we digest and work through it and develop as a society.
Morbid curiosity is part of being human, and while we do it for entertainment, we still learn a lot from it.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@-wc- This is a matter of semantics. A private company licensing and altering the content of a Japanese game to sell to a different audience in another country could be called cultural appropriation or some specific type of cultural vandalism.
It may not be censorship in political context, but it is perfectly valid to use the term colloquially.