"The Ass Nintendo Doesn't Want You To See" (Kotaku)

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There's new Fire Emblem DLC out today. The Summer Scramble pack. It adds a beach map to the game as well as "many conversations between the parent characters who normally do not support each other in the main game". Yet it also takes one thing away.

When the pack was released in Japan, it featured splash images of several characters, both male and female, in swimsuits. One of these characters, the bikini-clad Tharja, had her back turned to the "camera", her fingers gripping the swimsuit in let's say a suggestive fashion.

For the North American release, however, that image has been edited, a piece of material hovering perfectly over the area in question.

Does it help? I don't think so! Covering the area only makes it more suggestive. As in, suggesting there's no swimsuit under there at all.
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http://kotaku.com/the-ass-nintendo-doesnt-want-you-to-see-487825312
 
If nintendo showed it, kotaku will bitch about the degradation of women and the juvenile art style from japan

It was a lose-lose situation for them
 
maquiladora said:
http://kotaku.com/the-ass-nintendo-doesnt-want-you-to-see-487825312
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Does it help? I don't think so! Covering the area only makes it more suggestive. As in, suggesting there's no swimsuit under there at all.
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That would work a lot better if you couldn't still see the side of her bikini bottom.

her fingers gripping the swimsuit in let's say a suggestive fashion.
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I don't get this at all. Looks like she's doing the standard pulling out of the wrinkles that pretty much everybody who wears a tight swimsuit does. It's practically a pastime with the swimmers at the olympics.
 
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androvsky said:
I don't get this at all. Looks like she's doing the standard pulling out of the wrinkles that pretty much everybody who wears a tight swimsuit does. It's practically a pastime with the swimmers at the olympics.
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Everything women do in the US is sexually suggestive these days. It's our thing to freak out about every little thing women do.

*shrugs shoulders*
 
Makes sense to cover it up, USA is extremely sensitive to anything sexually suggestive.
 
I find it very odd that all of the "visible ass" remains in the NA censor, and the cape only covers the swimsuit part, also.
 
So, I don't really care about the "censorship" or whatever in this instance, but I had figured Nintendo was done bothering with stuff like this by this point.
 
Hmmm, you have to wonder why Nintendo edited it in the first place. If anything, it makes it into a much bigger story now.

It just makes Americans seem uptight and unable to handle certain art or content. A suggestive ass is a no-no, but guns or violence are alright.

Perhaps the most sexualized country in the world and yet suggestive images or sex in video games is a national outrage.
 
blamite said:
So, I don't really care about the "censorship" or whatever in this instance, but I had figured Nintendo as done bothering with stuff like this by this point.
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I was also under this impression before now. It's a pity.

But yeah, I do see the argument that they wound up making it more suggestive by trying to censor things.
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It just makes Americans seem uptight and unable to handle certain art or content. A suggestive ass is a no-no, but guns or violence are alright.
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It's because they are, and they can't. Quite right about what isn't acceptable here, but what is.
 
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