The latest One Piece game (World Seekers) has its hotspring scene cut from the NA versions on consoles, and ALL versions on PC (not even pirated unlocked versions have the data for it).
It still made it to Europe and the Middle East, translated and mostly uncut... as well as Japan, of course.
For reference, it's the cutscene that had a very thick layer of ridiculous mist in early preview videos that made it seem like they were caught in a toxic gas leak. It was speculated this would be its final look, but it seems Sony Japan had second thoughts about doing this with the kid-friendly, mass appeal One Piece franchise and expose their recent policy to mass ridicule. Not that it deterred the American branch, or Namco Bandai simply said better safe than sorry and skipped the region entirely.
The translated version of the cutscene in question:
Meanwhile, Resetera is taking their long list of grievances with DMCV:
- Not as political as DmC
- Has a "problematic" song they were glad it was changed after community pressure (because it was shitty and the singer a pedophile, not necessarily the same reasons as resetera's concern with toxic masculinity but it worked out well for everyone for once)
- Has an indirect Michael Jackson homage, despite a recent HBO documentary with very loose allegations meaning that MJ is to be scrubbed from pop culture past and present effective immediately
- The nudity censorship isn't complete enough and is making Sony look bad, and they're really upset people are talking about this at all
And adding
this to the mix: Political purity tests for the English voice acting cast. Caught in the crossfire:
- Joey Camen (Morrisson): Miscast as "the only" black character in the game (because Nico doesn't count), wore a balaclava, said nigga, all crimes that can be considered blackface on their own.
- Reuben Langdon (Dante): dared to defend Vic Mignogna in the context of the libelious allegations made about him and his unaware fans, the supposed victims, by ANN and other websites. He is thus guilty of "dismissing BLM and Metoo" in one single stroke.
Trish, Morrisson, and Nico are magical blackfaces as well.
I guess if Sega (Judgement: recall of JP copies indefinitely and delay for overseas copies) and Disney/Square Enix (Kingdom Hearts 3 via update) can do voice actor replacements post-release (the cocaine-smoking Japanese voice actor recently caught), then Capcom should "get their shit together" and appease Resetera, which isn't at their first rodeo with voice actor updates.
One should remember they led a very big controversy against two John Tron voice acted cameos in Yooka-Laylee (which yielded to pressure, though the cameo made it to master and was gone only by the time the day-one update hit) and A Hat In Time (which didn't yield, and whose developers are regularly and casually accused of all sorts of hate crimes at resetera these days).
A multi-target controversy is new though, bold even. Must be the dopamine heat from their recent days trying to link Pewdewpie, and not only call for a THQ boycott (until the entire PR team is fired, nothing like a good firing) but even Deep Silver (being an European gamer is immoral these days) and seriously claim they are linked to the NZ terrorist massacre. It was quite the popcorn for the internet at wide which got to see a high profile case of resetera insanity and bloodlust for developer blood. A lot of youtube personalities comforted PDP and are thus on the persona non grata list so expect more controversies out for their blood whenever they appear inevitably in game projects.
Resetera also is providing yet another example of the horseshoe theory by calling for the removal of No Russians mission entirely (replaced with narration, it's totally different than the other censorship!) from upcoming remasters from the Call of Duty series.
Justifications like "videogame stories are shit anyways, it would benefit from cutting more of it" and "i feel insecure and unwelcome" make their obligatory appearance as usual in those type of censorship apologia arguments.
It also seems Harada from Namco called out the recent censorship climate in increasingly direct ways, though not as direct as when he directly called out old!neogaf/resetera by name when saying they need a censored version all for themselves while Europe/SEA/Japan gets the normal deal, and only stopped when an ERA fan threatened to slit her wrist if he didn't stop. I don't have the exact wording for his recent tweets though.
While resetera might be eventually an history footnote as one of the most pathetic online dens of insanity, they're still relevant enough on the subject of game censorship to be worth a mention here whenever they plan something. This is seeing they are one of the main parties pushing for it, and have on their board localizers from Treehouse, like-minded people from the Sony San Mateo approval comitee they have direct access to and are upset they don't have the same access for Valve/GOG, and at one point had the lead of 8-4 as an admin among other things... all of them vocal and beyond the benefit of doubt in what they really want...
Their attempts to sabotage the Catherine and Persona 5 localizations (which included calling for the firing of Hashino, and stating their intention to dox him for that end) have garnered enough infamy and reach at Atlus that the fanbase is starting to notice, and they themselves are starting to notice they are noticed by the public at large and make futile attempts to shoo them away with excuses like "we're not going after the things you like, honest!"
As some put it best, light is the best disinfectant. Their attempts to push for censorship are as worthy of documentation as the incidents of censorship themselves. Then companies can get shamed for pandering to non-consumers who push for things like THIS, provided with zero commentary:
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Remember back in the day when if you didn't like something you just didn't buy it? How is art hurting anyone? What's next, can we get police on the streets to make sure that teenage girls are not allowed to wear mini skirts and tube tops? I mean it's basically pedophilia right? Lets just ship every human being a burlap sack and never let any of these awful beings every experience anything and anybody again. 
