Good news for PC players: Tales of Arise is censored on PS4/PS5

[KOBE SUCKS]

You'll probably start hearing about this in the coming weeks from the major publications (and I suspect many of them will try and justify it) but I felt like I should let you guys know about it ahead of time, so you can decide for yourselves if you want to give Bandai Namco your money for this game, especially for the Playstation ports.

So first off, Tales of Arise is being censored on PS4 and PS5 ONLY. The censorship will not be present on other platforms, at least as far as I'm aware. This applies to ALL versions of the game, JP, US and elsewhere.

Here's a list of things that I'm personally aware have been changed for the PS4/PS5 versions. There may be additional changes that I'm not aware of, but at the very least, all of the following has been censored:

1. Multiple costumes (all female characters) have been made less risque.
2. There is a hot springs scene which is completely removed from the game on Sony platforms. It is not plot significant, but it is still removed. The area still exists but one scene from there is gone.
3. Associated costumes (bath towels) that are earned by seeing the hot springs scene in question are completely removed.
4. The gender symbols (in the ingame language) on said hot spring's doors have been removed.
5. There is an optional scene where the female characters make sexual remarks towards each other. This entire scene is removed.
6. There is a scene where one of the male characters walks in on one of the female characters, and it is implied that he sees her naked, though nothing is shown in any version. In the Playstation versions however, the dialog is different and the sexual implications are removed.
7. A weapon carried by one of the NPCs has had it's design changed. I'm not entirely sure what the reasoning is behind this one.
8. There is a scene where an enemy punches one of your female characters. In the PS version, she dodges out of the way but still falls down.
9. A dialog choice has been altered. There is a flamboyant character (I don't think it's ever specified that he's gay, but it's heavily implied) who in other versions, you have the option of questioning his flirting towards you. But in the PS versions, this dialog is changed to you just calling him annoying.

And that's all that I'm aware of. Make use of that information however you like.

[Preyz]

so just the normal censoring crap then

[Matticus]

Are you sure PC won't be censored? You sound not too one-hundred percent on it, but I'm hoping that's the case. Just seems weird to censor a bunch of console versions and then PC gets away scot free. But hey, I'm all for it. Even if PC did get censored, I'm sure modders would find a way to skirt around the issue to a degree. Oh well, everything being censored here isn't such a big loss in the end.

[Lord Method Man]

Good to know. Look forward to hearing from Kotaku, Polygon, Eurogamer, etc. about how this somehow isn't censorship.

[Lord Method Man]

Originally posted by Matticus:

Just seems weird to censor a bunch of console versions and then PC gets away scot free.

Sony mandates this now.

[Oostin]

Where did you hear this from?

[Albion Hero]

This reads like a bunch of fake news to try to get people angry for no reason. Removing gender symbols on bathroom doors? Really dude?

[Someone]

not any of this important lol

[Jeffer'son Airship]

Originally posted by Oostin:

Where did you hear this from?

EDIT: it's literally just a repost of a 4ch troll post. Probably by the same extremely pathetic OP who is a proud toxic idiot.

[DeathHydra]

Yeah, having a hard time believing this, especially the gender symbols removal. Removing gender symbols on the door just doesn't make any sense. The rest seems kinda believable, but I still have doubts.

Oh well, I'll be getting this on PC anyway, so probably it won't affect me.

[Laughing kookaburra]

if it's true this is so bs

[KOBE SUCKS]

https://exputer.com/news/playstation/tales-of-arise-reportedly-censored-on-ps4-ps5/

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

I told you we would get far-left politics into our games sooner or later in which gender would be an issue, like gender specific cloths but instead they went even further and went for bathrooms .....................jesus christ

"The gender symbols (in the ingame language) on said hot spring's doors have been removed."

Remember how they censored Tokyo mirage and made the girls bikini recording into street hip hop instead with baggy cloths?

Remember how Persona 5 royal had a scene changes because the gay community didnt think you could be weird in a red light district and be gay (because as we know, red light district is filled with "normal people")

Its not those pesky "christians" censoring your games.

[satsuyurami]

Originally posted by Mokinopomu:

Originally posted by Oostin:

Where did you hear this from?

EDIT: it's literally just a repost of a 4ch troll post. Probably by the same extremely pathetic OP who is a proud toxic idiot.

Wow, so it's really troll. I found it weird how the heck OP know the game censore because the game still not released yet. It's 16 August and the game released on 2 September, which is really weird how the heck OP own the copy?

And the DEMO released on 18 August 2021

https://twitter.com/TalesofU/status/1425095105946472450

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

Even if its someone trolling- that is the disturbing thing- that you are willing to believe it by todays climate.

[HHKaaL]

doubt, if that were true Cold Steel 4 and Hajimari no Kiseki would've been censored too, and they werent so...