December’s Nintendo Direct featured a short two-minute clip that both promoted Mario Kart 8 and introduced a newcomer for Super Smash Bros. 4. Said newcomer is Rosalina, Mario’s major ally in Super Mario Galaxy and recurring spin-off character. Rosalina’s integration into various Nintendo games has been unprecedented for a character whose only claim to fame is the supporting role in one of the best games ever made; Rosalina has since appeared in Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D World, and is set to appear in Mario Kart 8. She was also slated-but-nixed to be in Mario Tennis Open, and she is an NPC in Mario Party: Island Tour.
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It turns out that Sakurai and his team had a bit of a back and forth with CERO during the development of Super Smash Bros. for Wii-U circa 2012 as the rating organization actually asked the Smash team to turn female characters upside down for panty shot angles.
Well now it makes sense why some of the character clothes in smash Bros was changed
Censors? CERO isn't a censorship organization. It's a rating board and it's no more censors than the ESRB.
They don't ask you to censor your game. They give you a rating depending on its content, no more, no less. If you want a lower rating than what you're given, that's on you.
Stop playing dumb lol.
You know Nintendo is aiming for a low board rating so they have to censor to get it based on what the board deems reason to raise it
@Teflon02: I'm well aware, but that's on Nintendo. They have the freedom to keep the content intact and accept a higher rating. It doesn't make CERO into "censors" in any shape or form.
That's simply not what a rating board is. Censors dictate content. A rating board does not. It assigns a rating based on the existing content.
Yeah, I'm not seeing the issue with them asking to see if characters actually have underwear modeled. That would actually be reason to give the game a higher age rating. If Sakurai included them and Nintendo then removed them to achieve a lower age rating that would've made Nintendo the censors.
A rating board has every right to ask for this to accurately rate the game.
Let's be honest, a game won't be sold by retailers in the US if it has an AO rating, they have power over the industry, even if they're only a "rating board".
That's completely unrelated, and the rating board still does not require any change to the content. The developer has full freedom to distribute the game via other means.
Calling a rating board "censors" couldn't be less accurate. That's simply not their job.
Ratings Org can shift around elements and the ratings they garner. Im not saying that was done here but it's heen done in the US feature films and the MPAA.
That would be an interesting job duty, even if it’s in the name of censorship. Someone was literally paid to do a panty check on female characters, lulz.
It's not in the name of censorship. It's in the name of not giving a CERO A rating (All ages) to a game that doesn't fit its content guidelines.
It’s still dumb no matter what you call it. Equestria Girl dolls have panties. Are those not child-friendly? Besides, in talking about Japan, you don’t want to know what CoroCoro comics get away with. A panty shot or two might as well be CERO A.
Games will show muscle men's nips, but God forbid a quick glimpse of princess Peach's vagina. Hypocrisy!!!
because nintendo cant get their hands on cool characters like Viewtiful Joe and they don't listen to their fans so they fill the gap with nintendo leftovers characters.
Who doesn't want Rosalina? I always said no more Mario characters with the exception that i would be fine with Rosalina. She brings a new style to the table and she is a female character.
Hopefully means Galaxy 3 is the making.
bayoneta fits perfectly in smash. I wanna see more 3ds gameplay.
I don't get why Nintendo keeps rehashing the roster with the same characters every game with the occasional wild card. There are tons of characters that could be used.
I like that Rosalina was chosen but, how about making at least half of the characters in the game be completely new to the Smash games.
JUST ADD IN KRYSTAL ALREADY!!!!
I like Rosalina and I'm glad they're finally adding more females to the smash roster...but I sure that the most requested Nintendo character for smash bros is Krystal from starfox (with staff). People expected her to be the final character in Brawl, but instead we got Wolf...
At least Rosalina isn't a clone character?