No Nudity and Less Gore in Censored Japanese Version of Dying Light: The Beast

Like zero alcohol beer...

Why does a game like this have or need nudity in it in the first place??

Boy let me tell you, I've seen some anime/manga that would make your stomach do back flips, they truly do have a stange ratings board.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I was going to say, isn't Australia just as stricted as Japan? Haven't they banned anime or is that just rage bait youtubers saying that?

@Ricky-Spanish Because gore and sex have always come together. Nothing new.

@Oram77 Germany is, or at least was, a few years back the same.
They actually had to put "uncut" or "uncensored" on many horror films so punters knew they were getting the same as their UK or US counterparts.

@Ricky-Spanish nothing really needs gore and nudity. But it adds to the adult nature of things. I’ve never gotten more enjoyment out of a game because it has gore and nudity. But I know I’m not most people.

I will import the japanese version for my kids.

@Jammer Oh wow I never knew, that's some good trivia right there. I suppose the way things are going us in the UK will be in the same boat.

@Czar_Khastik Exactly, I remember buying the Japanese version of Kill Bill because it had the iconic Crazy 88 fight scene still in COLOUR from Play.com (now there's a throw back)

@AhmadSumadi I get the gore if it's a horror game but don't really see the need for nudity unless it's some dramatic emotional game or something like that I don't know.
Don't see the point of full on nudity in games it's a bit cringe to be honest for me anyways 🤷

My sympathy for Japanese gamers 🙏

My country also has censorship that a bit similar with Japan but they apply mostly for manga and movies. Even when the manga already rated Mature like City Hunter for example, they still received unnecessary censoredship. Like, every time a female character showed some cleavage or nudity and even Ryo mokkori, they censored it with beams of light or dialogue box and it's fkin annoying :/

Luckily, unlike Japan, mature rating games didn't get censorship in here. Games like Doom, RE, GTA etc who has tons of violences, blood, and dismemberment are intact.

@Oram77 M.P.D Psycho probably the only manga that makes me quite uncomfortable with its violence / dismemberment scenes.

Has Ghost of Yotei also been cut?

I didn't know there even was nudity in the game. Censorship of it in video games in Japan is odd since they have graphic nudity in anime and manga.

@Oram77 it's a bit ironic with ur profile picture considering the most popular character got bisected 😅

I call my knob ‘the Beast’ too.

@Absymbel Considering that the ESRB says that there's "partial nudity," "Blood & Gore," and "Intense Violence," there likely will be cuts.

Makes more sense than censoring Japanese boob jiggle and such, but equally bad obviously. Censorship is just bad period.

That's why otaku are so obsessed with panties. They don't know there is anything under it because of censorship!

@Lowdefal Yeah there will be new English print i believe by Abram ComicArts, which also gonna do English print for Cat's Eye. Btw Cat's Eye is getting a new Tv series started this week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkyJX_Wgjc&pp=ygUJQ2F0J3MgZXll

I would love to point out the silliness of the censorship but I'm American so I think I'll sit out on the next several of these. Who builds a house out of glass? Honestly!

@Alps_Stranger Yeah it's kinda scary the censorship that administration is trying to push!
Putin like in some sense as in nobody can say anything but good things about me!

I’m so glad I don’t live in japan

@Oram77 anime mange, made me laugh , like some rotten diseased ridden cartoon

@lazarus11 LOL never even noticed that 😂🤦‍♂️

@Ricky-Spanish Within the context of the game The Beast is set 13 years after the events of the original game which itself was an apocalypse situation.

So purely logically the clothes on zombies are going to not be in the best of conditions. Zombies are typically not know for doing laundry or getting a sewing kit out for spot repairs.

So shock horror there might be some bare zombie bits on display.

@Shinnok789 That has place sometimes but this i dont know.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare How to train your future serial killer. If they are on the fence they get a detailed discription.

@RiverGenie It wasn't clarified where the nudity was in the game I assumed it was some sort of sex scene or something I didn't know it was the zombies because that makes sense if it's the clothes decaying off them having some context is always nice isn't it?

@Ricky-Spanish as far as I know all this is just some saggy zombie boobs (male & female) and other body parts on display.

Happy to provide some context

@RiverGenie It's hardly nudity then in my opinion basically it's gone off meat walking around haha ✌️

@Ricky-Spanish The nudity in the game isn't sexualized in any way; the nudity refers to some of the infected/zombie women who turned with their shirts torn, just like some of the male zombies. Just equal opportunity toplessness for the undead, no zombie lap dances or anything.

@PanFriedSoup Yeah the context in a case like this is huge because I was thinking this is some stupid sex scene shoehorned in to keep the teenage boys happy not something trivial like this!
A storm ina teacup!

@Ricky-Spanish I totally agree. BTW, it actually is a great Dying Light game if you haven't played it yet; IMHO it's better than the second one.

"Storm in a tea cup", gonna use that from now on lol.

@PanFriedSoup It's a great saying kinda condescending and if you use it to tell someone to stop moaning they feel crappy about themselves very effective tool use just use with care my friend haha ✌️

@Oram77 True but then again the amount of ecchi anime versus how Hentai are, the gap is very particular. Not just censoring or not just the violence in them but the dynamics, tone and how graphic or even if not graphic just how far the implying/impression is which is the hard one to guess by.

Even the PG versions of visual novels cutting content compared to their Eroge versions is also surprising on Switch 1 eshop.

That and how far Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed/others violence are and culturally it matters to the Japanese of violent things too. It can differ for them for sure. That or even the pink blood in Danganronpa or any aliens or insects with green/blue blood in any games/tv shows Asian or Western games. I mean some insects in Zapper One Wicked Cricket have red blood so like it cuts 'comic mischief' for the ESRB rating there compared to the player character's guts in a death animation. Ratings boards do miss things sometimes.

I mean I won't deny Gal Gun having themes to make it teen in the 1st one to straight up vacuuming clothes to underwear (compared to a Senran Kagura being more glowing lights not just the armour damage) in the 2nd/3rd one is just weird. Regardless of the plant boss fight with tendrils or something.

Compared to other fan service games with particular dynamics/tropes of characters that are masochistic.

Then again 'implied' versus on screen also can be like 'well we still get what's going on it's just not in our face graphic' or visible skin. Rather then being cartoony about it. Or less makeup and smoke or otherwise details after an explosion or something/other visual elements to emphasize it too.

I mean the context of a onsen/public bath compared to any other location too.

I mean it's as weird as 'why are bikinis (depends what type, gag/impression) ok but underwear isn't when it shows the same amount of skin', but special underwear is because it's implied what it's for, I mean if it had beach episodes or scenes but no weird angle of dialogue/impression it's fine because the tone is still family friendly of a beach episode despite what they are wearing (it varies, I mean not all will be wearing a one piece swimsuit).

But I mean it's a mentality thing, it gets a pass because stupidity that's why. It's whoever says or thinks it's ok based on tone/certain actions on screen, rather then people questioning it enough compared to other things.

I mean it is weird but it does add up over time the more you go I guess this dialogue or this action, graphic or amount of skin visibility is this far of a line but this extent isn't due to the dynamic/context.

I also hope they don't have the 'oh if it's this inch/millimetre' angle of thin shorts, dress, bikini either. XD But who knows. Maybe they do go by measurement. I think it's more how they see it then that extent to standards but who knows.

Or other things when family friendly shows have a surface level coverage of something of a particular topic, compared to an adult show going deeper into such topics too. Yet you would think 'why even have the surface level one here at all then?'

It is weird and hard to tell but it's guessable to a certain degree besides yes whoever is the one doing the checks/approval as well to 'guess' what they allow.

Not just how graphic but the person approving it levels of 'yeah this isn't ok'.

But yes their fan service approval is weird yet their gore/violence one is maybe the same or weirder then other countries, it varies.

I mean some of it doesn't need to be in the game at all but I mean whatever they were going for with the game I guess.

That and the CERO Z rating strikes again, fair I guess.

@Oram77 Well Mary Skelter 3 is banned due to the tone/themes so that's not possible. That and yes the SAO/Eromanga Sensei manga or light novel stuff I can't forget.

I think it's more drugs but of course certain context for fan service yeah.

I don't remember Bayonetta/Mass Effect really being rated for the fan service scenes more action.

Though as weird as they are, and how much space they take up of box art even compared to German USK (more brief on eshops), I prefer the descriptors on the front then the back of PEGI/go to our website type ones. Having a few EU/US copies for some consoles (not imported just came across them).

Then again reading Devil is a Part Timer local library copy and the 'were thinking about things or inter monologue' type scene that many western and eastern tv shows can have made me go uh huh. I get what the scene is for but it didn't not cross my mind going uh right ok (not like I haven't seen many scenes like it just in that moment it seemed weird) even if i know how those scenes go of artwork covering up versus how ecchi shows, present things versus just only focusing on the face or just the thought they are having or 'no need for that at all' and the character thinking it outside the bathroom instead.

Even buying My Dress Up Darling manga or some R rated anime like Grisaia, Testament Sister New Devil or the uncut version of Why Are You Here Teacher I'm like yeah I guess they do deserve their ratings yet with OVAs or specials aka the studio made original episodes (which for Grisaia/Testament especially, more extreme then the source material) cut from the blu-ray releases which are much worse then the main story scenes or content I'm like yeah not surprised they aren't in the disk releases but easy to find online.

Compared to shows that just never have those bonus episodes, are tame and are totally fine as well subtitled only or dubbed yet never appear. Never a disk space thing I guess just some other choice.

But there is also cases where a store won't sell it. Gal Gun can't be sold at EB Games, but can on the Sony/Nintendo eshops (well Nintendo these days but the PS4/Vita versions are available still for purchase they weren't removed) so it's more the store's choice.

I mean Conception was available physical I bought a copy from EB Games and was surprised it was even there in the bargain bin at all of the store, yet other games aren't. Whatever was more particular to them I guess.

It varies.

I mean Australia I think is more real drugs particular or yes certain fan service, but it varies per context i don't know for sure.

Then again seeing Postal or others on the PS store was enough for me to go, 'what?' but I don't know how toned down they are to even be allowed onto the PS store let alone Aussie ratings at all.

Even seeing Halo with the M/aka Teen rating for dropping swearing compared to the MA/aka Teen with parental or bit more graphic details was enough for me to to go huh ok that can make a difference. Not just Microsoft's decision to do so to apply to Teens and lower the rating in all regions.

Yet to me seeing the Ratchet 1 G rating versus the 2 and 3 ones G8+ (aka PG before 2005 and compared to the 2013 changes with R being introduced).

Yet in a way they do fit more so with the PS3 collection at PG rather then 1 being G due to I assume rating differences back then.

Part 2:
I do think the Fallout drugs being their real life names was one thing but also yes 'incentives' is the factor more so I think. In what way they want to 'reward' you or effect the player compared to say a health potion.

I was surprised Conception even released having the 'incentives' descriptor on it, and due to the 'minigame' to 'create soldiers' isn't in any overseas releases I think due to Sony but even still the dialogue and the 'animation' silhouettes or implication and all that doesn't really change much regardless of it still being about as 'off screen' like in a kids show but in this context is still clear.

No clue on how the Oblivion character model thing was for Aussies.

Thought seeing Manhunt on a second hand store shelf was weird. I assume it was unbanned I have no clue. Or if it was banned at first I can't remember.

I mean in a way even blood/gore or swearing settings would make a game still have a rating whether Borderlands 4 or COD Black Ops 2 or Gears even because it has to account for all content in it. Even if it does allow parents to know what content regardless of if the kid said 'hey it has a toggle to turn it off'.

Same censorship for Ghost of Yotei ?