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NEWS: Fire Emblem Fates RPG's Western Release Will Not Have 'Petting' Feature


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MarthKoopa



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:36 am Reply with quote
Really shouldn't have been in the game in the first place

Waste of development time
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AnimeLordLuis



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:44 am Reply with quote
Nooooooooooo not the Petting think of the children won't someone please think of the children! Laughing
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mewpudding101
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:45 am Reply with quote
MarthKoopa wrote:
Really shouldn't have been in the game in the first place

Waste of development time


As someone who owns the game...

It's not a waste of time. It's actually quite sweet. You can have affection with you sisters and brothers (quite comedically), and the thing doesn't allow you to touch them below the face or anything. It also raises affection points.

Removing this function basically removes any meaning for the My Room castle attachment completely. That's just sad.
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Red Fox of Fire



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:45 am Reply with quote
Everyone is cross-posting this from Kotaku (not the most reliable source in the first place) despite how fishy the whole thing is. There has to be more to this.
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Konopan



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:46 am Reply with quote
I'm going to completely lose it if they forget to take out the hot springs

After all if you're going to remove every pandering element from otaku pandering; the game: at least we also revived some of the franchise's difficulty as well edition, you really ought to gut the really really obvious feature that has zero bearing on gameplay if you're disabling one that actually does
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Felicity dash





PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:53 am Reply with quote
MarthKoopa wrote:
Really shouldn't have been in the game in the first place

Waste of development time



Want to get an "S" rank with your partner? Well this petting mini game is the only way to do so.
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Chester McCool



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:54 am Reply with quote
We can rub our Pokemon crotches in Pokemonami but patting your waifu and husbando on the head is immoral. Furry = good, love = bad, got it.

Rev up that CFW because I am sure hungry for that fantranslation.
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Amiantos



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:56 am Reply with quote
Wonder if even know their target audience anymore. Cause all they're doing is chopping content and making people less interested in the game. If they're trying to do this so they can stop releasing them western side, then they're doing a great job at it.
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Alabaster Spectrum



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:00 am Reply with quote
And nothing of particular value was lost.
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Felicity dash





PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:01 am Reply with quote
I don't trust what Kotaku says. Because they like to stir up controversy. I'll only believe if Nintendo confirms it via other sites or they outwardly state it.


Above all though, it's pretty sad that we can touch a pokemon's groins but not touch a humanoid face.
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Stuart Smith



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:07 am Reply with quote
Amiantos wrote:
Wonder if even know their target audience anymore. Cause all they're doing is chopping content and making people less interested in the game. If they're trying to do this so they can stop releasing them western side, then they're doing a great job at it.


The west never was the target audience for Fire Emblem. Most of the games never came out over here. The only way to play them since the NES days have been translations.

At this rate we may as well place Fire Emblem in the same category as Dragon Quest. Huge in Japan, redheaded stepchild in America. At this rate there is zero chance of #FE coming over here short of all the women wearing hijabs

-Stuart Smith
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:08 am Reply with quote
All the more reason I'm staying away from Fates. There was absolutely no reason for the petting feature to be removed whatsoever. If there's a reason why Nintendo has gotten this not-so-great reputation of being "kiddy," it's their unbridled censorship spree from the American branch, which has, of course, gotten worse these past recent years.
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ParaChomp



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:12 am Reply with quote
Not surprised at all. It's probably the fact that petting features in other games (example: Senran Kagura) are used for other reasons...

Konopan wrote:
I'm going to completely lose it if they forget to take out the hot springs
I doubt it, the hot springs were in Awakening. The only thing that was censored there was Tharja's butt and it ended up looking MORE suggestive.
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macattack



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:28 am Reply with quote
Alabaster Spectrum wrote:
And nothing of particular value was lost.


It was mentioned that you needed to play this minigame in order to get an S rank.

Its now become a lot harder to do so unless they completely redid the ranking system.
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Kikaioh



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:34 am Reply with quote
Personally, at this point the Fire Emblem series is pretty much dead to me. Otaku-pandering is about as low as they could take the series, and every time they remove embarrassingly objectionable content, it just feels like another shovel-full of dirt on the grave. I'm glad NoA is sensible enough to remove that kind of content, but knowing it was there in the first place just kills the experience.

Stuart Smith wrote:
The west never was the target audience for Fire Emblem. Most of the games never came out over here. The only way to play them since the NES days have been translations.-Stuart Smith


As far as I know, Fire Emblem has been releasing in the West since 2003, which is 13 years ago. At this point the West has seen about half of the overall Fire Emblem catalog, save for the SNES and NES titles (and even then, we did get the remake of Shadow Dragon).


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