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Forum - View topicNEWS: Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP Game's Switch 2 Release Delayed
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AiddonValentine
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Keep it, even putting it on an actual cart won't help you. I have no interest in lining the pockets of reactionary chuds
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ZelosZoidberg
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Arale Kurashiki
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This remaster (which has no involvement from Suda, James Gunn, Grasshopper, etc.) was promoted extensively with statements saying "dont worry, guys, we wont let this remaster be censored by the radical left! there will be no woke DEI in this remaster! we wont let THEM take lollipop chainsaw away from you!". It was all extremely overblown posturing to court a particular too-online political audience so they could make money off them. (All while the remaster actually is missing songs that were in the original game anyway.) |
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Nobody14
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The way Dragami tries to market this game is really funny considering Suda has said that the hornier elements of this and Killer is Dead were on the publisher and he’s been putting out the “woke nonsense” these people decry. He did it again 2 weeks ago even. It was sick.
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AiddonValentine
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Basically; a lot of "how do you do, fellow gamers?" alongside various reactionary bullhorns. Will not be participating
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ZelosZoidberg
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^Oh okay.
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Cypher997
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Not really interested in Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, currently interested in making some progress in my large backlog. Nothing against the game.
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lufia2rocks
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I imagine it's delayed because Switch and third parties don't really mesh well with programming for the system with multiplatform games.
Well, that's good to hear it's not censored. Way too many remasters and remakes are censored that make them worthless getting over the original. Glad they clarified they won't be doing that right upfront. Way too many companies love to get mealy mouthed and hum and haw over if they're censoring stuff. |
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fuuma_monou
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You're missing the point of the parts of Arale's post you didn't quote. Why am I not surprised. |
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Traptrix Lover
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You guys know this already came out back in 2024 and this delay is only for the very late Switch 2 version, right? The game already came out, was a success, and got a sequel announcement due to said success. They also announced an anime adaption.
I also gotta say if developers being against censorship or being pro-fanservice is off putting to you to boycott this you clearly weren't the market for Lollipop Chainsaw in the first place so it seems pretty pointless. Do you guys know what kind of game this is? |
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lufia2rocks
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What the part they talked about courting a too online political audience? That's just every piece of media these days since it's free marketing. Personally I think it's best to remain politically neutral because that's how you make the most money but in cases like this where it's pretty clear one side is going to hate your product no matter what because it contains elements they don't like it probably doesn't matter and it might be the better option to assure the other side their satisfaction is guaranteed. If this was a general game like Mario or Zelda then sure remaining politically neutral is best but Lollipop Chainsaw is a game you play as a hyper sexualized teenage girl in skimpy outfits killing zombies. Only one side was going to play it anyway and the other was always going to demonize it and deem it offensive and objectifying which is what happened back when it originally came out back in 2012 and gaming media jumped all over it calling it disgusting. Sometimes there's just no point in trying to appease people and it's a lost cause. |
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Arale Kurashiki
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How about the part of my post where I said it literally is functionally censored, for "we can't be bothered to try and relicense the soundtrack because this entire remaster is a grift" reasons? Is this where we're at? Buying the rerelease with missing and removed content to protest against rereleases with missing and removed content?
I am staunchly anti-censorship, and the fact that this ^ conversation can occur is the most comically blatant evidence possible for my point that this is just a grift, and that anyone with any real opinions and principles on anything wouldn't fall for it. I've been seeing these silly arguments over fictional content as proxy for culture war for decades at this point and I think in the past many different kinds of people were often wrong about various things, but it really wasn't anything like now where griftheads say things that make absolutely no sense at all on any level. Absolutely praying you can imagine a world where there are more than two "sides" to everything. Absolutely praying, hoping and wishing that everyone on the internet can start to imagine that world again, and start to be their own person. |
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Nekbone
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Losing the licensing rights to copyrighted material is not 'censorship'. Censorship is an actual term with an actual meaning and requires the content to be edited or suppressed by a government body. |
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HKurogane
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Along with the issues of RePOP not renewing their licenses for various songs which made the game mermorable - a lot of people were put off because initially they said this was going to be a REMAKE not a Remaster due to fan worries?
I always wondered if this was a mistranslation or misunderstanding that if the game was remade, story beats, or any kind of censorship to Juliet's skimpy outfits would be changed? So they went with "Remaster" just to keep the game the same. (Which didn't happen with the music). So everything about this remaster was a disaster. (Hey that rhymes!) |
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Mizlude
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The lack of the old licensed music is a shame but there's clearly a big difference between a company saying they don't have the rights to something anymore and a company that removes content that is deemed socially "problematic" in the Current Year that was present in an original release. The first displays a genuinely unfortunate situation that is out of their hands while the latter is agreeing with the people who say a visual graphic, a gameplay mechanic, or a line of dialog that was perfectly fine a decade ago needs to be removed now because it's fundamentally unacceptable to acknowledge or preserve. I have zero interest in getting involve in a 'sides' argument but I feel like this is a bad faith way to try to dismiss a company alleviating people's fears of the all-too-common practice of remasters doing latter as a 'grift'. The people being upset that a company isn't removing content they find problematic makes sense because they're not getting their way but I can't comprehend why a company telling people they had no intention of removing the fanservice or sexual content of a game in an era where we see tons of remasters doing just that would be so upsetting unless the very act of doing so was seen as an attack on your morals or preferences. If you truly are anti-censorship then you should truly be able to see the difference between the two situations even if you have no interest in a version of the game that does not have specific songs in them. Personally I think the intention and position of the former is much more sympathetic than the latter. Like, I get why Capcom had to remove the Enya cameo in their Fighting Game Collection release. Them just deciding to rewrite an entire character and case in the Apollo Justice collection for 'gender expression sensitivity' is total cowardice. Both are bad but the latter is the one done out of compliance to censorship rather than "Bandai/Shueisha will literally sue us for copyright violation if we don't remove it". Personally this is why I advocate for people to play the original versions of all these games because no matter what content gets removed you can't erase the past. But in a world where we have to deal with content being removed, I'm more sympathetic to it being done for copyright reasons rather than moral panic. |
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