In a strange decision, given the prior game featured things openly discussed like organ harvesting, demons, kidnapping, and whatever the hell this is, Namco Bandai has drawn the line at nuns.
Japanese versions of the game include a pre-order DLC character called "Sistermon Noir" and "Sistermon Blanc". The US release will also contain Sistermon Blanc, but a seperate digimon, Sistermon Ciel, will be provided. The only difference between Ciel and Noir is one looks like a christain nun, the other doesn't.
Why did they do this? Well, it's possibly a result of the Hitman controversy, where gun-wielding nuns caused an uproar and anger in the american press, causing accusations of sexism. Perhaps trying to avoid Hacker's Memory being called sexist, a new seperate digimon from Noir will be provided.
But with less than 2 weeks left until release, here's a PSA on how you can dodge this change and get the uncensored version of the Digimon:
EU Copies of Hacker's Memory are offered in the English language, and contain the uncensored version of the digimon, Noir.
More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUEyHWIXNY
Twitter announcement: https://www.twitter.com/BandaiNamcoDE/status/923807750647373824
So if you can get access to a VPN and the EU copy of the game (the japanese version isn't region locked, so I don't expect the european version will be), you should be able to enjoy Nier in english.
Also, you can still encounter Sistermon Nier online from other regions, so if a gun-wielding nun is too much for you to handle, you might want to make sure never to touch the game's online mode, where players will no doubt be showing off their exclusive monster.
EDIT:
For people who already own the US version of Cyber Sleuth 1 and hope to import your prior game's savedata, unfortunately saves are region locked, and doing this method will mean you will have to do that stuff all over again. So if you are able to import your US savedata into hacker's memory, you may be stuck with Ciel.
Japanese versions of the game include a pre-order DLC character called "Sistermon Noir" and "Sistermon Blanc". The US release will also contain Sistermon Blanc, but a seperate digimon, Sistermon Ciel, will be provided. The only difference between Ciel and Noir is one looks like a christain nun, the other doesn't.
Why did they do this? Well, it's possibly a result of the Hitman controversy, where gun-wielding nuns caused an uproar and anger in the american press, causing accusations of sexism. Perhaps trying to avoid Hacker's Memory being called sexist, a new seperate digimon from Noir will be provided.
But with less than 2 weeks left until release, here's a PSA on how you can dodge this change and get the uncensored version of the Digimon:
EU Copies of Hacker's Memory are offered in the English language, and contain the uncensored version of the digimon, Noir.
More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwUEyHWIXNY
Twitter announcement: https://www.twitter.com/BandaiNamcoDE/status/923807750647373824
So if you can get access to a VPN and the EU copy of the game (the japanese version isn't region locked, so I don't expect the european version will be), you should be able to enjoy Nier in english.
Also, you can still encounter Sistermon Nier online from other regions, so if a gun-wielding nun is too much for you to handle, you might want to make sure never to touch the game's online mode, where players will no doubt be showing off their exclusive monster.
EDIT:
For people who already own the US version of Cyber Sleuth 1 and hope to import your prior game's savedata, unfortunately saves are region locked, and doing this method will mean you will have to do that stuff all over again. So if you are able to import your US savedata into hacker's memory, you may be stuck with Ciel.
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