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INTEREST: English Release of Xenoblade Chronicles X Removes Bust-Customization Option

The rest of the world is just not ready for Japan. Ain't nothing new.

@Lili-Hime
Well look, I'm certainly not saying the whole game (be it this or FF14) is only for guys making waifus. Just that this is what this one aspect of the game specifically exists for. It's just tough for me to believe otherwise when the game offers so little other significant body customization. A game that at least also lets you adjust muscle tone too is a little better. I can see after height and muscularity maybe going to breast size as the next most prominent feature. Or at least you're in the ballpark. When you can't even choose between a pencil thin body and a heavy set one though, but you can set the breast size...yeah. It seems pretty clear they're not interested in letting people create the bodies they want. They're just interested in letting them create the boobs they want. Of course if you find it helpful regardless then that's fair enough. I guess it is still better than nothing. To me it seems a bit insignificant though. Like, if a game isn't gonna let you actually customize your character's body in a meaningful and complete way, they might as well just go with a universal template. That's just me though.

Why is Japanese on Japanese censoring not attacked like this is? I'm just wondering?

Also, it has nothing to do with the gameplay. If it doesn't affect gameplay, it doesn't matter.

The problem with this line of thinking is that the pervy costumes are STILL in the game, every character including the MC still has access to the full array of swimsuits and other fanservice like outfits with the exception of Lyn so if Nintendo was actually trying to "clean" up the game or maintain an "image" how exactly is removing an innocent bust slider but leaving in the much more fanservice outfits help nintendo in that cause?

Saying that the bust slider was only included just to pander to people's libido" is also ingenuous too because multiple woman myself included have said in this thread that effects them, if pervs want to make a character just too see that character half naked they still have that option available but the answer to a limited character creation isn't to limit it even more because of a few people might abuse it for other reasons.

Plus, this is Nintendo (USA) we're talking about. Japan doesn't really haven't qualms or care.

I'm assuming for Nintendo it's a matter of what they think their target audience is comfortable with. Skimpy outfits on adult characters is okay, but on children it's not. Related to that, they probably removed the bust slider because they thought it might be controversial to be able to change the bust size on a character that looked like a child, and it was just easier to remove the slider altogether.

As for whether or not the bust slider was made for pervy purposes, why is it that you don't see a groin, hip or butt slider in the game too? It's one thing to say that a bust slider has its place in a full-fledged avatar editor, but it's existence in this game as the sole isolated body part enhancement feature draws attention to its inclusion at the exclusion of other potentially modifiable features. Perceived motivation is understandably enough for Nintendo to not stir up controversy with the broader general audience they're targeting.

Besides, if it's optional content, that just makes it that much more irrelevant--and if it's so irrelevant as to be optional, cutting it out shouldn't be a factor.