From Japan, With Changes: The Endless Debate Over Video Game 'Censorship' kotaku.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 6 months ago

One of Nintendo's biggest releases in 2015 is the sprawling 100-hour adventure Xenoblade Chronicles X, released earlier this year in Japan. It's great-looking and fun. That's not in dispute. The most heated debate about the game-making it the latest flashpoint in ongoing skirmishes over censorship, creative freedom and sexual politics-involves a pair of changes made for the American release.