Uncensored?

[daverhodus]

Is this the uncensored Japanese version of the game?

[Warxa]

This game is censored? What even is there to censor? I was so excited to play this game but I refuse to buy a censored game.

It's already bad enough that they're calling it Pocky & Rocky instead of Kiki Kaikai and are still renaming Sayo to Pocky. I thought the era of erasing japanese culture with bad localizations was over.

[etch]

The video on the store page shows Ame-no-Uzume uncensored so I assume they are using that version. The JP version included English as an option so makes sense the devs just used that version.

[NeoStrayCat]

Originally posted by Warxa:

This game is censored? What even is there to censor? I was so excited to play this game but I refuse to buy a censored game.

It's already bad enough that they're calling it Pocky & Rocky instead of Kiki Kaikai and are still renaming Sayo to Pocky. I thought the era of erasing japanese culture with bad localizations like renaming "onigiri" to "jelly filled donuts" was over.

My thoughts exactly about the localization thing, but it was probably a holdover, its also kinda bad that the 3 new characters didn't get westernized names for consistency, but that's probably a good thing they didn't. (Its also kinda odd when you had a GBA game that also had Pocky & Rocky with Becky. Another character with a westernized name.)

Also the reason why TC mentions is because Ame-no-Uzume in the overseas console versions have her cleavage window covered up by more cloth both in the cover arts and in-game artwork (except her sprite). Anyways, if you look at the game's header art in the steam store page, Ame-no-Uzume doesn't seem to have the extra layer of cloth that she has, so chances are, they're keeping her original arts from the JP console versions.

[Habanero]

No way of knowing until it's out. Just because the store preview isn't censored doesn't mean the final release won't be.
https://i.imgur.com/BmN5Fmi.jpg

[Cube]

i only care if rocky and his tanuki balls are censored.

[ママ[JP]8964426]

no censored plz

[Hyahieja]

Censorship = no buy.

[Malkraz]

https://twitter.com/RealStrictlyLTD/status/1511310671639715846
The official English trailer also features the censored art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drpp6zhFSU0

EDIT: StrictlyLTD seem to only be involved with the console releases of the game and not the Steam version, so this may be the uncensored original.

[etch]

Pocky and Rocky Reshrined got handled by several publishers for physical copies in the west, StrictlyLTD handled some, ININ games also did some, so did Natsume's western branch themselves, etc. across North America and Europe. The versions in Japan, Asia and Korea as far as I know include an English option and those versions did not have censorship like the ones published physically and digitally in North America and Europe.

[Kamen Gamer Retro]

Originally posted by Atsuい:

Censorship = no buy.

it is literally a small slip of cloth added, calm your ass down

[Malkraz]

Originally posted by Kamen Gamer Retro:

Originally posted by Atsuい:

Censorship = no buy.

it is literally a small slip of cloth added, calm your ass down

It doesn't matter how big or small the change is, there is no place for altering a creator's work to suit their own sensibilities.

[Worgen Freeman]

Seriously, calm your tits, its a slight amount of cleavage, its not like there are sex scenes or anything. No reason to freak out.

[Malkraz]

Originally posted by Worgen Freeman:

Seriously, calm your tits, its a slight amount of cleavage, its not like there are sex scenes or anything. No reason to freak out.

Originally posted by Malkraz:

Originally posted by Kamen Gamer Retro:

it is literally a small slip of cloth added, calm your ass down

It doesn't matter how big or small the change is, there is no place for altering a creator's work to suit their own sensibilities.

[Evangela]

Originally posted by Worgen Freeman:

Seriously, calm your tits, its a slight amount of cleavage, its not like there are sex scenes or anything. No reason to freak out.

If it's not a big deal, then go ask the people who decided to censor it, "why did a small revealing of boobs trigger you so bad that you had to apply censorship on someone's arts?"

The ones who treat it like a big deal are the ones who censor it.

[Worgen Freeman]

Originally posted by Evangela:

Originally posted by Worgen Freeman:

Seriously, calm your tits, its a slight amount of cleavage, its not like there are sex scenes or anything. No reason to freak out.

If it's not a big deal, then go ask the people who decided to censor it, "why did a small revealing of boobs trigger you so bad that you had to apply censorship on someone's arts?"

The ones who treat it like a big deal are the ones who censor it.

Hell if I know, both sides of it seem stupid to me, censoring it was stupid, freaking out about it is stupid. I'm going to let you know a secret, we are on the internet, boobs are literally a search away, you don't have to act like a 10 year old who has no other way to access cleavage. No reason to miss out on what seems like a really cool game because there is slightly less cleavage.