Princess Maker 2 Regeneration Delayed on PlayStation After Sony Demands Changes

Bliss Brain has announced that Princess Maker 2 Regeneration is being censored on PlayStation owing to changes demanded by Sony.

[jambola]

nah
Sony can keep their censored garbage

[Snookies12]

Complete BS. I hate their recent censorship crusade. I used to back Sony pretty heavily, but I am not cool with any censoring. Let art be the art it was intended to be. I'm an adult. I promise I can handle gore, boobs, cussing and anything else thrown my way. If Sony continues down this route, I seriously doubt I'll be purchasing their next console. Hell, it took me until just recently to buy a PS5... I bought PS1-PS4 pretty much the day they launched. I just don't like the direction Sony is going lately.

[DarXyde]

At the end of the day, you're speaking for yourself here. You make it sound like the policy is wrong because Snookies12 can handle boobs and gore.

In reality, I think you miss the point that the censorship is unnecessary because, well, there is such a thing as the ESRB. Sony or any company applying their own censorship policy is just redundant and adds a layer of needless oversight, regardless of whether people can "handle" the content, made much worse because it is applied asymmetrically. Ultimately, the ESRB will do its job in informing the public about content included in games generally. From there, it's up to the parents to decide whether their child can manage the content. Because really, in a society without children, I reckon ratings boards and censors would be out of jobs.

If they insist on this kind of silliness, if there is anything I've learned from Stellar Blade (and Steam games, apparently), all you have to do is:

(a) launch without any censorship and allow for an optional patch to be downloaded to censor it;

(b) Launch censored but allow for users/main console account to remove the day one patch;

or

(c) Do nothing. ESRB and caregivers can figure it out.

I'm partial to (c), but any kind of enforcement is just weak.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

This is not surprising, Sony has been like this since the HQ move, I also don't like the direction they've been heading in, this BS killed the Senran Kagura franchise (We'll never get another game to finish the story). I've also faithfully bought PS consoles until the PS5 gen started, normally I jump on a new PS console when I game I want finally comes out. That hasn't happened with the PS5.

[VersusDMC]

Apparently they are removing the 2 endings where you marry your father and your caretaker. And boob slider.

Reading that and seeing that thumbnail...do platform holders have to allow anything to be in a game?

[ApocalypseShadow]

They shouldn't. There should have to be some limits. And Sony may not want the trouble involved even if they aren't making the game themselves. News media would have a field day with it. And you know there's going to be someone who hates PlayStation that will contact the media and tell them about a game on the system where the anime girl gets big boobs and marries their adoptive father or butler. Which we have seen that butlers are like father figures too like in Batman.

And, apparently, we have Woody Allen's on N4G who don't mind at all.

"But but but I can handle it." Sony's going too far."

Sometimes, games go too far. Have some ever thought of that?

[H9]

Sony: Stellar Blade can have sexualized outfit it's alright, The Last of Us Part 2 can have rape that's treated as romantic
Also Sony: Wait this game is Japanese, CENSOR IT RIGHT AWAY

[MrNinosan]

Marrying your parents is typical Japanese or what?

[H9]

It's fiction my friend, rape is not typical American as well, but one got censored and the other didn't

[gerbintosh]

Adoptive parent and also that is a typical american thing, Woody Allen.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Well I simply won't be buy the Playstation version then. How the hell Nintendo allows this but not Sony? I like Sony and all but I detest this censorship.

[fsfsxii]

I love that these games exist as a way to expose the weirdos and creeps in the gaming community.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

At least you can buy the PC version in its unadulterated form, which I'll probably do, although I already played the original a lot as it is.

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Good to know that we have some people here who want to groom girls or partake in incest.