If you release a game for a different audience you localise it for that audience or you don't release it at all. That applies to anything from language to cultural quirks. It's a localisation issue.
Yes it was.
"Speaking with IGN, Nintendo maintained previously that the primary purpose of the patch was not to remove same-sex marriage, but to fix a data leak"
-IGN article
This is a very simplistic article. I thought I'd shed some light on this issue, When the game originally launched same-sex marriage was a thing. Nintendo then released it was a bug and that they would patch it in the latest patch.
If we think that in Japan they are much less socially accepting of things like this, it makes perfect sense for them to patch this The controversy comes from many Western fans asking them to keep same-sex marriage in as a feature as it more accu...
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"Dai Gyakuten Saiban Will Not Get a Western Release and You Should feel an emotion" just doesn't have the same ring to it.