What Nintendo does nowadays is write the Japanese script for their games to mirror censorship and localization fuckery that would occur in the west, that way people don't complain that the game got butchered in localization, and for whatever reason people are more willing to accept shitty ESG practices in games if all versions of the game suffer from the same woke garbage instead of it happening during localization.
What Nintendo does nowadays is write the Japanese script for their games to mirror censorship and localization fuckery that would occur in the west, that way people don't complain that the game got butchered in localization
What they don't seem to realize, is they always want more. Have none in the first place, they ask for some. Have a lot in the first place, they'll ask for a lot more.
According to the source: Looking at the Japanese version there is no "romance" there either, it's explicitly stated to be platonic.
What Nintendo does nowadays is write the Japanese script for their games to mirror censorship and localization fuckery that would occur in the west, that way people don't complain that the game got butchered in localization, and for whatever reason people are more willing to accept shitty ESG practices in games if all versions of the game suffer from the same woke garbage instead of it happening during localization.
This is going to get worse over time.
What they don't seem to realize, is they always want more. Have none in the first place, they ask for some. Have a lot in the first place, they'll ask for a lot more.