The Order: 1886 got a lot wrong, but we were able to respect its mature depiction of nudity to a degree. While certain games – God of War, for example – revel childishly in the odd bit of revealed flesh, Ready at Dawn's historical shooter just gets on with things, showing various parts of female and male anatomy when the context is correct. Well, in the Western version at least.
Recently, some overseas gamers started sharing screenshots from the brothel section of the PlayStation 4 exclusive game, in which one woman has her breasts exposed – but nipples removed. We won't reproduce the image here for obvious reasons, but if you want to see it, click here. It goes without saying that this is 100 per cent not safe for work, school, or any similar location.
While this is a quick and dirty edit, though, a little more effort has been invested into the sex scene section. In addition to completely re-cutting the sequence, characters have been clothed and certain body parts covered up as a consequence. You can watch a comparison below, but again, we don't recommend it if you're at work.
The game already received a 'Z' rating when it released in the East earlier in the year, which is equivalent to an 18 in Europe. Interestingly, this tier allows for sexual content and nudity as per the ratings board's guidelines, so we're not entirely sure why it's been removed. Then again, we suppose that even adult content has a tendency to be censored in the Land of the Rising Sun – or so we're, er, told.
[source kotaku.com, via eurogamer.net]
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The nippleless picture is pretty stupid. More warped Japanese BS. I recently watched a documentary about the Olympus billion dollar scam, pretty hilarious viewing. Why Sony would throw half a billion at Olympus following the scam is beyond me.
I saw the breasts with no nipples, that just looks incredibly strange.
Wait.....the Japanese version had to be this censored? LMAO!
"We sell panties out of vending machines and all of our fictional school girls barely have clothes on....but holy crap you better put clothes on those disgusting Europeans!!!"
I guess those nips just werent Japanese enough. I'm starting to see a type of bias here
I never understoond why a naked body is bad to be seen, but blasting other's peoples head is okay...
@BertoflyingFox
Japan actually always had censor on those things. This is the reason they use so many tentacles and no male genitalias
Hah. Penis.
@melucine You havent seen much of their media then. Ero guro is big over there, there's even an anime about girls with male genitalia....
lol, always makes me chuckle when I bring that up
I'm just jumping in here: let's keep our comments mature, please.
@BertoFlyingFox
No I haven't tbh, what I said is what they have told me.
I am not sure I want to see that one
So in a way The Order was an even shorter experience in Japan cause the cut the scene short?
insert length joke
Glad I don't live in Japan (wait..what?)
I knew it, they are all Ken and Barbie dolls!
@Melucine
I feel the same way. No wonder we, as a society, have such childish attitudes towards nudity and the human body. Everybody has nipples, for crying out loud.
Honestly, murdering and eviscerating people is okay, but holy crap, don't show a nipple! Because a natural part of the human body will mess you up. This is pretty stupid censorship. There's hardly any nudity in the game as it is.
@Quorthon duh, why does Japanese film not censor nipples?
Censorship in games is a bit odd here, considering what is generally available.
I don't know what's more offensive; the nudity, or the fact that there's a link to Kotaku...
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