I found a thread on 4chan dealing with the matter of Nintendo and their "new guidelines" censorship which caused the banning of games such as Neptunia from being released in the West.
Digging out 4chan anons found that multiple games were already being banned by this but that the culprits seem to be Nintendo of America (NoA) and Nintendo of Europe (NoE) possibly doing the fuck whatever they want without Nintendo HQ actually escalating on this censorship.
the thread is quite long but the discussion inevitably merges with payment processor censorship in Japan and the escalation which is not being talked yet about the houses of lawmakers against granting vote rights to foreigners being set on fire.
To get full information i suggest taking time and read the thread but I warn that is a bit long.
the great totalitarian sodomy of Japan has begun, globohomo does not like when the people escape from their escapism.
Link to 4chan archive:
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/697662551/
mayor points from the thread:
greentext:
Nintendo of America bans nep from releasing in the west
bikini schizo and macaco spam the news to shit on tendies
anon starts digging thanks to the news and finds out this has been happening with multiple games that had western releases planned since at least march
brings it up in one of the bikini schizo threads
bikini schizo immediately vanishes, macaco starts avoiding these threads and stops mentioning censorship in unrelated nintendo threads
anon wonders why bikini schizo disappeared and checks the archive
pic related >>697662878
gets banned
threads start to get consistently flooded by NoA shills and people saying to spend money on steam instead
Anons have enough and start coordinating and send emails to NCL about the situation
contact japanese anti-woke youtubers about the situation
the guy who made the yasuke song is allegedly gonna make a video about it
you are here
List of know other games banned (list is getting longer by the days):
Affected games Anons have found so far:
- Tokyo Clanpool ● publisher is only mentioning an Asian release for the Switch
- Prison Princess Trapped Allure ● disappeared from the western eShop one day before release, no comment has been provided that I know of
- Neptunia Rebirth Trilogy ● "guidelines compliance issues due to content" cited as the reason
- Death end request Z ● "Guidelines compliance issues due to content" cited as the reason, censored Basedny version is getting a western release funnily enough
- DAYMARE: 1994 ● Italian spooky game, literally zero reasons are known
- Redneg Allstars ● Blocked by NoA and NoE due to "expression restrictions"
- Amairo Chocolate ● No reason given, publisher simply apologized over it.
- The Fox Awaits Me HANA ● Western release cancelled, no reason provided
- Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs ● Western release cancelled, but released on playstation and steam (content status unknown)
- Night to meet Chu! ● Western release nowhere to be found despite already being out on Steam
- Sakura melody ● Previous games were all Switch exclusive, now not on Switch and instead on PS despite censorship. "it was a weird year and we don't know what happened" cited as the reason by the devs
- Christmas Massacre ● Western made game, blocked from a Nintendo release entirely
- Kanon ● May have been quietly blocked from releasing in the west, developer randomly released an update for the Japanese version that added English as an option
That's two thirds of Nintendo, my good man. Just say Nintendo. Parent company sees no problem with targeting fan games and emulation so it's not like the Japanese arm is a particularly shining paragon of virtue either.