To come to this conclusion for TMS is putting a lot of faith and guessing into their intentions. If the devs really came out and said that this is their new intended version and that's why everyone gets it now I'd have a lot less problems with it, but again that's putting a lot of faith in them. It seems to me that they took the most recent Wii U version that was laying around and decided to use that one as a global SKU to not bother with version differences anymore. I doubt any of this is motivated by the drive to change or update the game's values. Hell we're still not 100% sure who decided on those changes originally, much less why they decided to make them global now. In short, nobody at any point ever took a stance about any of this.
If Mom is the only one bothered by sexualized underage girls, remind me to stay away from Dad...
It's a business decision. All you have to do is look at Fire Emblem Heroes, Dragalia, or Atlus's titles for that answer.
That's the reality of the idol industry in Japan, if you're going to be making a game about it it's not surprising that'd show up. Where TMS#FE faltered was that it didn't do enough to criticize the practice.
It's a stage costume for a concert performance, you overreactionary goofball.
Because it's cheaper to just develop one version.. and they're probably going to sell more copies in Western countries than in Japan.
Without much difficulty I think it'll probably sell at least 3 times as many copies total as the Wii U version. Switch games are selling well across the board. I see no reason why this can't get to at least 1m copies sold worldwide.
It failed in both ways. Glad they are at least correcting one of them.
Not sure why they even bothered aging them up to 18 if they were taking out the gravure parts. Like it seems like you would just do one or the other, not both.
TMS was never about that from the concept stage even if you had people hoping the trailers were being deceptive, and it was darker than it looked.
From the pic posted on the 1st page.Uhh... what's supposed to be wrong with that dress?
A video game is nothing but a collection of millions of choices being made for you.
If I'm honest, I feel like they went a little overboard with that wedding dress change. Like covering up the cleavage is totally understandable but the additions to her arms and shoulders look a bit unnatural. Like the outfit looks more Swan Lake than wedding outfit now.
I'm in the camp of preferring the overall intent with the changes to the western version of the game, but that example just looks... bad. Kinda fouls up the design if I'm honest.
Pretty sure Nintendo just has a policy to only release one version now. This is a weird case of a game getting a remake before that policy was a thing.
burn me on a pyre of vagina bones so i can ascend to Horny Heaven
there is nothing more intellectually challenging than trying not to get horny for an underaged teen
Yes, clearly the issue is I'm a prude.
No, I think the issue is that not everything has to be all good and rosy. Video games should be used to critique society because without society video games cannot exist. The problem with TMS#FE is that it didn't do enough to critique it.
You don't need to actively sexualize minors to critique the sexualization of minors.
Just sounds whiney to me
Lol grow up. if it's not for you then it's not for you but this post is pathetic
I don't understand how you're getting from start to finish here.
Exactly, which is what I said. The game wasn't good at critiquing it.
I don't know if I said it was OK for being unchaged, obviously as I stated before I got the Wii U release so obviously the changes weren't a turn-off to me.
No, not really. That's where the game failed. Then again, I don't think that was ever Atlus/Nintendo's intention, but it's somewhere they could have gone but didn't.
I think the thing that's throwing me is that when you describe the game as "not very good in doing this" while also saying they didn't intend to, its like describing a sumo wrestling match as "not a very good game of chess". Which may be technically right, but is also such a valueless statement and so distant from the types of observations that people would make that it come across as a nonsequitor.
FYI when the Western version released all relevant lines were already changed to match in Japanese too. That includes age changes as well
Almost like the changes were always supposed to be implemented globally
Well, I mean that the game sort of critiques in it a "plot needs conflict for progression" sort of way, but Nintendo and Atlus saw it as nothing more than that so instead what we get is a shallow critique at it with no real substance.
