Censorship is weird, Sure skantly clad under age anime girls 
What! horror game with too much gore 
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in USA it is vice versa
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Funny how censorship works, especially when you look back at Resident Evil days. I think only one version got the full uncensored opening of the game over USA and there were plenty.
I just always find it funny how weirdly specific censor policies are enforced. With CERO in Japan, you -can- have gore (to an extent, but itâs allowed), but itâs zero tolerance to show -dismemberment-, which is a pretty big part of this game and definitely not easy to just remove.
With the anime girls thing, well, Gal Gun was banned from Xbox (US platform) but allowed for Switch (JP platform). But then Iâve played JP games on Xbox, like Deathsmiles, with actually much worse âscantily clad imageryâ than in Gal Gun, but apparently itâs fine because Deathsmiles doesnât take place at high school. So itâs âfineâ if itâs not at a school?
Itâs almost like how TV censors âassholeâ but not âassâ or âholeâ
I kind approach this thread as if itâs a twitter feed, of sorts, in that it is a timeline of stuff happening in the day. I like it. But it does take some getting used to.
And as a newish user it made starting a main thread - my first being the Tinykin one - more unlikely as I put a bunch of weight onto the main threads because there is fewer of them.
So itâs good and bad I think.
It works, but it might stop working at one point. I do look at other threads but if youâre wanting the pulse check on the Xbox community, this is the thread for it.
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I agree that censorship is incredibly weird and inconsistent, especially across different mediums.
I always assumed that the main issue with Gal Gun was that you were shooting high school girls in their genitals and erogenous zones with your pheromone gun, lol. Basically, youâre trying to get Underage high school girls charged up with lust.
Thatâs perfectly fine in Japan where theyâre much more lax about sexualizing underage girls, but here in the USA, itâs much more taboo and is immediately considered to be child porn. Again, I have no idea if thatâs actually why the game wasnât able to release here.
Having said that, Anime has no trouble being sold here in the US with a lot of the same themes, so Itâs inconsistent across different mediums. I guess games are still considered to be âFor kidsâ, which is endlessly frustrating.
wow chapter 15 of plague tale. asobo really is trying to compete with naughty dog
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Wtf
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Yeah. Itâs a rail-shooter where youâre trying to get the girls to love you? Or, youâre shooting them to repel them since theyâre all charged up? I have no idea since Iâve never played it.
When we donât know where to start a convo, we do it here
It is what it is
Community hangout
Questioning itâs existence is what should be justified
So yes, we are here to hear from the team why this thread should not exist 
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Sounds like the most neckbeard thing Iâve ever heard of.
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Actually it did release in the US even with physical copies (on Switch), Xbox just didnât âwant itâ
The inconsistent thing is funny because as you said anime is sold in the US with the same shit no problem⌠many of which is sold on the Microsoft Store lol
Itâs⌠âstupiderâ than it sounds. It plays like The House of The Dead. I mean some of the girls are even shooting at you with âloveâ Uzis and Rocket Launchers. At least in the end it knows itâs stupid lol
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This was in relation to the ID@Xbox program, right? Basically, Xbox didnât block it from the platform, but didnât want to publish it in their own program?
Japan is just different, culturally. These types of things are targeted towards middle-school and high school boys, and grown men play them without telling anyone. 
I think thatâs the theory, because Inti Creates does use ID@Xbox for their releases. They used to have a publisher called Alchemist which is who published Gal Gun for 360 but they went bankrupt long ago.
At least Iâll be able to play the spin off game Grim Guardians on Xbox. Finally a âGal Gunâ game that doesnât need you to use the âMom Walked In buttonâ to âhideâ the game (yes thatâs a real feature in the Gal Gun games and yes that is what they call it lmao)
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I really hope you guys keep this!
Hope the potato is well baked.
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Well, they did stated that they pivoted from streaming device to something else.
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