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NEWS: NISA to Release Mugen Souls Z in N. America, Europe in 2014

Its a different market. In Japan where violence isn't as accepted, you have major titles like Gears of War and Fallout censoring decapitations, for example. America is against sexual material, so because of the game ratings, sometimes you need to make edits.

well fallout 3 had it's reasons for the edits such as the nuke megaton quest and the weapon fat-man "that was the name of the bomb we dropped on Nagasaki". So in all fairness I can see why they would want to censor that.

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

However on the case of mugen souls after watching the video with the bathing scenes of rubbing banana's across a loli's face and along the cg sets of the characters in "near nude" or "provocative poses" you can unlock. Nisa had to cut or censor in some format to for a western release. Warning video is NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sraAcJjy-w

Saw the video. Still feel that the censorship is unacceptable (especially when you take into account what razisgosu stated).

Shiratori1 wrote:

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote: However on the case of mugen souls after watching the video with the bathing scenes of rubbing banana's across a loli's face and along the cg sets of the characters in "near nude" or "provocative poses" you can unlock. Nisa had to cut or censor in some format to for a western release. Warning video is NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sraAcJjy-w Saw the video. Still feel that the censorship is unacceptable (especially when you take into account what razisgosu stated).

Yeah but I want to air on the side of caution for political and gaming stigmata sake. You do realize this has to go before a board of people to be judged on all of it's objectionable content to get a rating from the esrb rating right?? I don't think the ESRB are open minded as other people are and this would mostly like give this an A/O rating.

An A/O rating would not be a negative thing. The fans who are going to buy this could care less what rating it has. It is the fans who are the target market, not the mainstream market.

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

Shiratori1 wrote: Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote: However on the case of mugen souls after watching the video with the bathing scenes of rubbing banana's across a loli's face and along the cg sets of the characters in "near nude" or "provocative poses" you can unlock. Nisa had to cut or censor in some format to for a western release. Warning video is NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sraAcJjy-w Saw the video. Still feel that the censorship is unacceptable (especially when you take into account what razisgosu stated). Yeah but I want to air on the side of caution for political and gaming stigmata sake. You do realize this has to go before a board of people to be judged on all of it's objectionable content to get a rating from the esrb rating right?? I don't think the ESRB are open minded as other people are and this would mostly like give this an A/O rating.

An A/O rating would not be a negative thing. The fans who are going to buy this could care less what rating it has. It is the fans who are the target market, not the mainstream market.

It's not because America is against sex as a rule. Underage sex is a different thing.

TarsTarkas wrote:

An A/O rating would not be a negative thing. The fans who are going to buy this could care less what rating it has. It is the fans who are the target market, not the mainstream market.

You do realize Sony refuses to allow AO rated games to release on their systems, right?

It's not anti-consumer.

It's not because America is against sex as a rule. Underage sex is a different thing.

NISA is just trying to cover their ass. How dare they do that! How dare they try to avoid any problems so that they can continue bringing out those niche games that so many other companies are just begging to bring out.

Is the removal of a irrelevant mini game enough to throw out a perfectly fine localization? Sounds kind of ridiculous.

"THIS NICE AND TASTY CAKE DOESN'T HAVE THOSE SMALL HARDLY TASTEABLE SPRINKLES SCREW IT ALL"

Though I wonder if they released it without edits would it even gain any attention. Not like Persona 3 ever did. These are super niche games that probably fly under the radar.

TarsTarkas wrote:

An A/O rating would not be a negative thing. The fans who are going to buy this could care less what rating it has. It is the fans who are the target market, not the mainstream market.

Yes it would. Beyond how the console holders allow what get's published. It's doubtful most retailers would stock the game. I'm sure Gamestop is were many fans by these games.

Its not child pornography in any shape or form. Not even close. So theres no problem there.

Again they are releasing an incomplete product for fans outside Japan. That is anti consumer to anyone not Japanese. There is no way around that.

The game could be released as is and it would be perfectly fine. Various other games release loli bathing scenes and catch no flak from it whatsoever.

Censorship is never the answer and the sooner these Japanese companies learn that the better

Its a different market. In Japan where violence isn't as accepted, you have major titles like Gears of War and Fallout censoring decapitations, for example. America is against sexual material, so because of the game ratings, sometimes you need to make edits.

@RyanSaotome

The game was released by Sony in Japan, in its uncut form. So Sony has no problem with the content. NISA is the only one in the U.S. that would have to care about the rating. In the end, the only people in the U.S. who would buy the game is the fans who already know all about it already.