I was thinking about getting it but I seem to remember hearing that it got censored in some way. What exactly did they change? What all is wrong with it?
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Most of the in game censorship was just a few outfits being changed and a few lines being altered. I think Nell's was the worst with a longer skirt and sleeves added. While not great its probably also not world ending if your barometer for "ruined" is higher.
The marketing however was a complete clusterfuck, with them outright delaying it just because Ukraine happened and trying to gut any mention of war or combat from any marketing blurb.
But I've heard the gameplay itself is purely upgraded. The AI can no longer as blatantly cheat, so FoW maps aren't literally unfair, and many of the "need a guide to figure out" moments were made more direct.
Which is interesting because even on the GBA version, even 20 years ago, the US got a longer skirt and covered up arms for Nell. Of course, some people still want to keep giving big N the benefit of the doubt...
It depends on what you're giving Nintendo the benefit of the doubt on. Nintendo has always had a policy of censorship to play it safe with the North American market. Even in the SNES era, Squaresoft covered up scantily-clad sprites and renamed Holy to Pearl for the US release. This isn't to say the current censorship isn't driven by leftist infiltrators, but it's not out of the ordinary for them either.
Yeah, I don't have any problem with a motivation of "we want to avoid controversy and just sell shit."
I do have a problem with, "we have to cover her up because we're objectifying her to the male gaze!"
NoA used to do the former. Now they are more likely to do the latter.
Motives matter.
These are the same thing though.