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@AussieMcBucket yeah. Not only that, Pokémon has a very cartoony anime style for even their human characters. And we reached a level of technical fidelity that those concept arts and 2d renders can be recreated extremely faithfully with a celshaded 3d style. (Heck, just looks at Pokémon Masters Ex, the Paldea character models are A LOT more pleasing to the eye there than in Scarlet and Violet. Vux their cartoony designs match the style and the models match the art. While in ScaVio, the more realistic texture and rendering does them a disservice).

looks alright, but I STILL defend that Pokemon moving away from the Cel-Shaded style they had in Sword and Shield was a massive Mistake.

The bird look stupid.

I love him, I will kill and die for him.

I like they're in, I hate that theres no voice.

@HammerKirby they did confirm on X that its NOT censorship,so thats good to know.

Consider me excited!

Its ubisoft so ill believe it when I see it.

@Jrmd I mean, that's one NIS not Nintendo.

But yeah. I wouldn't mind an Upgrade Pack, but there's no way I'm buying this version since there's no option for a physical cartridge.

Be real gang.

Whats the odds of a real physical release? (though to be fair, this is the rare game that I'd jump on even without the physical version).

@kmtrain83 that depends on the developers,and even then, a patch doesnt take anywhere near the same storage space as the full game.

@Toshiro_Baloney actually, they aren't the same.

Ps5 disks installed data on the console, but thst data is present in the disk itself. Meaning you don't need internet. Game key cards are completely worthless without internet

Switch 1 version it is.

Also, can we please stop mudding the waters by calling game key cards "physical versions"?

@topsekret nah, Marvelous is the bets third party on seoych 2 right now. Theyre the only ones consistently offering true physical cartridges

"Unfortunately, we never had the opportunity to show this work to Toriyama."

Thats rich considering they censored his art.

such a fascinating fumble.

Also goes to show it's DEFINETLY Nintendo's fault in someway if they're not even legally allowed to comment on the situation.

@Dm9982 well, let's wait and see.
My only hope is that this whole situation results in nintendo going back to how they were in 2019.

@Dm9982 so case closed. it IS Nintendo's fault.

"We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations."

And therein lies the problem. This means that whatever metrics they use to determine if something is "innapropriate" is completely arbitrary, made up, and subject to the whims to whatever Karen happens to going through approvals that day.

It's frankly insulting. Doubly so whe you think back to Furukawa's statement in 2019 (even Nintendo Life reported it back then https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/06/nintendo_has_no_plans_to_censor_video_games_like_sony ) :

"Nintendo, as do 3rd-parties and their software, applies for an objective rating from 3rd-party organizations prior to release. If platform-holding companies choose arbitrarily, the diversity and fairness in game software would be significantly inhibited. We provide parental controls that can be used to apply limits."

Somebody NEEDS to figure out a way to let the folks in Japan know NoA is going behind their backs. This only harms nintendo's image.

Yeah.... I think ill pass on this one.

@Sam_ATLUS I cant really speak for the EU, but I CAN say that there's a lot more examples than just Neptunia and Hundred Line.

To name a few:
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, Prison Princess: Trapped Allure, Magical Nut Ikuno, Night to Meet You! / Nice to Meet Chu!, Death end re;Quest: Code Z, Tokyo Clanpool, The Fox Awaits Me HANA, Amairo Chocolate, Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle, Corpse Party: Tetralogy Pack, and the Swimsuit DLC specifically for the switch version of Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos.

It's been happening for a while, but because its mostly niche japanese games, people just turn a blind eye. Maybe now that it's affecting a game that higher profile and western, people will start talking about it?

@Nep-Nep-Freak agreed. I want to believe that, because she's been at nintendo for so long, she'll be more in-tune with gamers like Reggie was (even if he wasnt perfect).

But that remains to be seen.

@Dr_Awkward I REALLY hope it's not her doing. considering she just assumed the position. I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt and say that this was probably implemented during the Doug Bowser years.

@Fizza it's not new actually, Nintendo (of America in particular) seems to have done a 180 around 2024. they started HEAVILY censoring and outright banning games. starting with the Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth Trilogy (which, mind you, are rated T for Teens).

Well, that settles it.

Nintendo of America needs to be cleaned out. this is horrible.

It wasn't enough to censor Japanese games, now not even western ones are safe.

The most infuriating thing about this whole thing is that Nintendo was doing SO well in the censorship matter around 2019 to maybe 2024. Furukawa made a whole statement denouncing censorship, tons of fanservicey games that were censorsed elsewhere were released in full on Switch... now out of nowhere this sh*t starts happening.

NoJ REALLY needs to fire a lot of people at NoA.

Last Story was amazing. Id love for it to get a remake. It was the first game I played that was part of operation rainfall.

Deep Cut eh? I wonder if they be willing to bring Sara from the Sonic OVA or Cosmo from Sonic X.

Ya know what, we already have a realistic human in Ichiban so screw it, put my man DONUT LORD in there!

probably won't pick this one up. I already played it on PC (albeit, I never really finished the Intergrade portion), and no proper physical release turns a "maybe" into a "no".

Man said he "retired" and instantly went back to work.

Fellas, I think he was just fired.

As others have said, my one hope is that she's put an end to the censoring and banning of japanese third party games.

@FullMetalWesker long story short:
The "route zero" of the game has no choices. Its a linear narrative throughout the 100 days. In subsequent playthroughs, you start getting dislogue choices and WILDLY change the direction of the plot (some times, even the game's narrative genre). And to drive it home, once you beat the first route, the game's title screen straight up gives you a big "2" behind the title.

@Vyacheslav333 yeah, ive noticed that as well. Specially with Qureate.

@AussieMcBucket no, the dispatch thing is a matter of thr ESRB. They don't allow for uncensored clevage in cover arts and Nintendo's Eshop follows thst format (look up the cover arts for games like Senran Kagura Estival Versus, Oneechanbara Z2 Chaos, in both instances they cover up the character's chests, despite the games being uncensored. Even in One Piece Unlimited World Red, Nami had to be moved behind another character in the US cover because she wears a bikini top.)

Dispatch will likely be fully uncensored. The artbook too. But the eshop banner had to br censored.

Im all for Parental controls and making sure theres no illegal content on Nintendo. But with the many recent cases of arbitrary Censorship of mature games (particularly japanese mature games that don't feature anything illegal, are properly age rated, and sometimes even release uncensored in other platforms), I can't help but to be a bit apprehensive of all three major suddenly coming out with this coordinated statement. A lot of the points made here are perfectly valid. So I hope im just overthinking it.

@Tempestryke if I recall correctly (someone correct me if im wrong), this didnt get a widespread physical release win america, Only digital. You had to import if you want the physical.

I really enjoyed it on switch even with all the performance issues. Definetly picking this up! SPECIALLY since its been confirmed to be a full physical cartridge!

Ill believe their support when I see actual physical cartridges.

Thats cool but it doesn't come with a real cartridge so hard pass from me.

Might trade in my Switch 1 version of animal crossing for thr Switch 2 edition.
Will probably do that with Kirby too.

@ShadowRJ the images weren't explicit. They were suggestive. Nothing was showing, and they had been approved by the ESRB.

And the cake one in particular, it was very clear that it had been censored. Since half the same screen was covered by a white cloud.

Still, the point is that regardless of whether its big or small, mature works that had been properly age-rated and shouldn't be censored.

@anubisvel its subjective whether you wanna consider it substantial or not. For me, I'm against censoring art in principle, and I LIKE this game. But I wouldn't have bought the switch version if they had been transparent about it from the beginning. Not disclosing that changes were made to the switch version prior to release is incredibly disrespectful, SPECIALLY when its an M-Rated game filled with death, swearing, and sexual jokes and innuendo.

I want an uncensored patch.

I dropped the switch version and finished my playthroigh on PC after I found out the former got some CGs censored. (Really low move to not even announce it anywhere).

@mackers84 oh I do have multiple accounts for different regions. But I guess it doesnt make much sense to create another north American account.

@mackers84 I wonder if I can use USD cards on my Canadian account

@mackers84 where are you finding discounted eshop cards?

Y'all really should list which ones are not Game Key cards (I know not all have been confirmed as physical or Game-key card). but it'd be super helpful.

Picked up Full Metal Schoolgirl. at this point, with all the game key-card bullsh*t I'm only ever buying digital games if they're on sale.

Wish her all the best and hope she'll undo some of the meddling with third party releases that happened under Bowser.

@nhSnork from what I hear that's wht LV5 did. They trained their AI model under their own database of work.

@GoldenSunRM for what's worth, the third game its kind of its own thing. Mostly unrelated to the other 2.

@shonenjump86 kodaka did say he wants to do DLC. I'd be down to return for it. Specially if theres a route that gives more focus to Kyoshika, Takemaru or Ima. They kinda fell like side characters in almost all the routes (and Romance wound up being the only route were Kyoshika gets a good amount of focus).