Good news for deckbuilding fans itching to play the indie smash hit Balatro, as the game has returned to the Switch eShop today in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Just a week ago, the game disappeared from Switch storefronts due to "a reaction to an overnight change to Balatro's age rating". Today, publisher Playstack shared the news of Balatro's return on Twitter. At the moment, the game is still unavailable to buy on the eShop in Japan, but the team are still looking into this.
"Great news!
Balatro is back up on the Nintendo Switch eShop across Europe, Australia and New Zealand
(We're still looking into the Japan eShop - thanks for your patience on this)"
We've checked the Switch eShop and the game is indeed available to purchase here in the UK, albeit with that new 18+ rating. In comparison, we also checked the North American eShop, where purchases of the game were unaffected, where the game retains its E10+ rating.
Well, at least you can now pick the game up on Switch almost wherever you are. We hope the issues with the Japanese eShop release are resolved soon too, as the game is absolutely fantastic.
[source twitter.com]
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Ouch, I wonder how that will impact sales?
Makes sense, this certainly looks just as intense as Doom and Resident Evil 😜
Rated M for Mature spades and diamonds.
This is just silly, I know Poker is associated with gambling but this is clearly not gambling, who decides these rules?
Eee….
To any parents that are now afraid to get this game for your kids, don’t be. There truly is no actual gambling in it, and there’s no adult themes (no drugs, alcohol, nudity, violence or gore).
You start with a standard deck of cards trying to beat the “top score” of each round. At the end of each round you get cash to buy booster packs and jokers. This is no different than Pokémon TCG, MtG, Yu-gi-oh - and those cost REAL money IRL…
To all the EU adults that have been waiting, go go go go go! You won’t be disappointed!
This game is rated B for BAD BOIZ ONLY
This is ridiculous. Balatro isn't gambling. It's closer to Slay the Spire than actual poker anyway, considering all the deck building, boss blinds and special cards.
Ooo, 18+. Sounds naughty. 😉
But seriously, this is dumb and they should feel dumb. This kind of crap is the reason the Game Corners were ripped from the Pokémon games...
Fortnite: contains elements that can easily get kids addicted to microtransactions (I know because some of my nephews are constantly asking for V-Bucks)
PEGI rating: 12+
Balatro: contains poker elements while having NO gambling or microtransactions whatsoever
PEGI rating: 18+
PEGI over there just doing things that make sense today!
Been checking it all week. Purchased immediately
Wow. Whoever is giving the ratings is not paying attention to what they are rating. This game is appropriate for any age (based on content anyway).
Funny, I found it back online before devs officially announced it. At that time there was still PEGI 3.
@StevenH This rating is actually great for sales. When Red Bull was new on the market, there was the rumor that its taurine were forbidden in food, and mixing with alcohol would be dangerous. That was the real boost for Red Bull!
Lootboxes good, fake gambling bad. 🙄 Hypocritic censorship like this is such a stupid, snowflake thing to do.
Bet it bolsters the sales though~
If there is any gambling, simulated or real, a game should be 18+.
This game is M rated for...
"Mom... why can't I get this game?"
Mom: "Because it is M rated sweetie."
You: "But in the Americas it is 10+."
Mom: "We don't talk about them."
@Shepdawg1 Microtransactions aren't officially considered gambling (yet).
@sanderev there’s truly no gambling, simulated or otherwise in this. It’s no different than Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Hades, etc…..
It’s a rogue deck builder. The only reason for the confusion is Poker hands being what judges the base score. This is literally Pokémon the trading card game, you get a hand to beat out a top score, turn and buy booster packs to strengthen your deck. Repeat till win or lose.
A simple switch of poker hands being monsters and the score being enemy health…. Which is why this whole rating thing is frickin ridiculous. As I talked to another NL poster before, PEGI follows the rule set of “guilty until proven innocent” the opposite of America’s ESRB. This allows PEGI (or anyone that wants to SWAT a game) to take down the game and force it to receive a new rating or stall sales until the true rating can be established.
The devs posted immediately following the removal of the game and straight up said they were going to toss it back up as 18+ until the PEGI situation could be sorted
On a whim, i dl the demo on ps5 yesterday and had a blast. Not sure why its 18+ in the uk/eu, because i certainly didnt see anything warranting that. (Im in the us, so never had an issue here)
Planning on getting this later today on switch as its a perfect fit to me for the console.
@Dm9982 So it's not gambling...
"This is literally Pokémon the trading card game, you get a hand to beat out a top score, turn and buy booster packs to strengthen your deck. "
...but it's gambling. Combining a poker like game with Pokémon like mechanics is basically a casino game as well. To me that would require an 18+ rating.
@sanderev gambling requires a wager, there’s no wager dude….
Also see other countries ratings on it…. None of the rest have done this.
Read the addendum I added. This was likely a swat attempt or some idiot with the wrong idea about the game.
@sanderev For sure. I’m not saying they are. But it just bothers me that microtransactions (which are just as dangerous and addictive as gambling) are given a pass when Balatro, which features no gambling whatsoever, is slapped with an age rating that will no doubt impact sales negatively.
@sanderev
serious question do you know what gambling is?
@Dm9982 Actually that's not true. A game of Bingo is considered gambling. But there is no wager in Bingo either. Gambling is a game where the player does not have direct input over the outcome (a game of chance) and has a monetary or physical or simulated price.
I haven't played this game yet.. But just looking at the screenshots says a lot.
@-wc- More than most people, that's a certain.
Europe has become what conservatives were in the 1980s. (That's not a political statement just an observation.) They'll outlaw dancing, next.
Still 16+ in Germany. It's so dumb that they can not remove games from the eshop in specific European countries but only all of Europe or nothing. That's why Dying Light isn't available anywhere in Europe on the eshop despite being only banned in Germany and Balatro had also been removed from the eshop in Germany despite there not being any ratings changes or issues.
@sanderev Bingo requires an entry fee to play with the chance that you win money in return….
There’s no entry fee in here - even tho it says “ante”…. your money doesn’t, I repeat DOES NOT, get depleted upon entering the next match.
True there is rng involved, but like I said, it’s a rogue. Do you consider Dead Cells a gambling game? Or Hades?
The rng and outcome can be MANIPULATED unlike gambling or Bingo….
In the case of this, ante is no more than a marker of what level you’re on.
@sanderev
okay. 👍 have you played this game?
@tseliot You're acting like the game was made illegal. It's just Pegi being dumb. And not all European countries even are close to that. In Germany for example gambling and prostitution are legal and the game is 16+.
@Dm9982 you forgot the word "simulated". And actually not all forms of Bingo require an entry fee. Also the game absolutely has an entry fee, since it's not a free game.
Also in poker the outcome can also be manipulated (there is some skill involved), but most of it is still luck based. There is a very thin line between luck and skill.
From PEGI's own website:
See no real gambling is required.
@sanderev either way it’s silly and unwarranted.
And didn’t your mother ever teach you not to judge a book by its cover?
Seriously, play it before you condemn it to “a gambling game”. Cause it’s not.
@-wc- I am downloading it right now.
@sanderev
hey thanks for bringing this in
"From PEGI's own website:"
i highly disagree with their policy but i can see now why they did what they did.👍
btw i hope you like it! I have been obsessed for days! its almost a problem. 😅
Well thanks a lot PEGI. I bought this game when it was 3+, before you slapped an 18+ age rating on it. My 6 year old daughter played it twice and now she’s addicted to gambling. It’s Friday night, she should be in bed cuddling up to Puppy, but instead she’s out on the town hitting up the Casinos. Your tardiness has cost at least one life.
@GravyThief 😂😂😂
Looks like confirmation that Pokemon Gens 1-3 in their original form are never coming to Switch given Game Corner gambling. There's no chance Nintendo would allow Pokemon games to be rated 18+.
@Shepdawg1
Reminds me of that article:
https://kotaku.com/study-fortnite-free-to-play-games-kids-bullied-f2p-1851291618
@Grumblevolcano Nintendo disabled the gambling on the 3DS VC versions of Pokémon so they wouldn’t get slapped with a higher rating. Nintendo will likely just reuse those versions. 😁
To clarify, Nintendo disabled the slots and such. You can still trade poke dollars for poke coins to purchase the TMs and Pokémon at that shop.
@Shepdawg1 because anything can be an addiction (Fortnite)
While this is gambling
Yes I find it a tad stupid, but not with Balatro being gambling because it technically is as a game.
But with the fact Fortnite is not 18+ due to the sneaky and scummy tactics it uses to make people, and thus kids buy digital crap for real money.
this whole issue is really throwing me for a loop. I definitely thought european countries would generally be less puritanical about things like CARDS, not more. 😟
i remember reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" in middle school (~12yo) which is set in the american south in the Jim Crow era. theres a part part where Scout and her brother almost get caught playing with cards, and have to lie about it, and I thought, "how quaint!" 😂
were some of y'all raised with these kinds of standards? I'm genuinely curious because I thought we'd left this particular one in the dust long ago.
@-wc- Yeah, it's really a good game tbh. Quite difficult as well.
And to if I would call it gambling, I still stand with a yes. It's still basically poker, but with added "roguelike" elements. And you get a virtual currency to use for cards/upgrades. So it does simulate gambling to a certain degree. (You don't get to keep the unlocks because it's a roguelike, but that doesn't really matter)
I would consider the game a roguelike, pokerlite game.
Also if people don't agree with the gambling description (from pegi), remember that gambling addiction is a real issue. And games like these can act as an enabler. This is why the definition is as it is.
@Dm9982 Given the 3DS VC versions were 12+ and @sanderev's comment about what the PEGI site shows, Game Corner still affected the VC version age rating. As the VC release dates were before 2020 (Red/Blue/Yellow came in 2016, Gold/Silver in 2017, Crystal in 2018) and it got 12+ back then, if they were to be released now they'd probably be 18+.
So is Fifa and its ilk now gonna be rated 18 too?
@sketchturner spades are the swords of a soldier, after all.
@Grumblevolcano I kept forgetting were talking about Euro versions. In America the ESRB maintained lower ratings when Nintendo disabled the gambling
@sanderev Yeah I’m not arguing that by any means. My brother has a gambling addiction, a massive one. Lost a house and boat to sharks.
That said, I couldnt lump Balatro in the same group that would lead to gambling addiction. Not by any means. As a massive Diablo 2 fan, I COULD lump that one in there tho! That game is literally a graphical version of a slot machine - just one more pull and I’ll hear the jingles!
But if I’m being completely honest, MOST games have some sort of hook that’s very similar to gambling. Pokémon and shiny hunting, Monster Hunter and Mantles/Jaspers, Diablo 2 and runes/uniques, Mario and collecting stars…..
@sanderev
i agree that this could trigger a gambling addict to want to gamble, absolutely. from that angle, I see why it gets the rating it gets (though I would strongly suspect that most gambling addicts are above the age of 18 😅)
but, imo gambling is a specific thing and this isnt it. if you arent placing bets, you arent gambling. I don't even think that's debatable tbh. I could agree that it has "casino themes" but it's just not gambling with no money involved and no betting.
("And you get a virtual currency to use for cards/upgrades." by this standard any game with in game currency is gambling, its just not so.)
that being said, and much more importantly, I'm glad you like it! I think it's worth the hype and then some. and it's even opened my eyes a bit towards other "deckbuilder" games, which I wasnt interested in at all before! I love that. 👍
@sanderev "Gambling is a game where the player does not have direct input over the outcome"
So I guess all of the RPGs in the world that rely on dice roles for loot drops are also gambling....
Seriously, they're just going to slap 18+ on any card games these days because they happen to be played in casinos? If there is no gambling with real money I don't see the issue.
@Samalik Same with turn based strategy I guess and a bunch of other genres.
@Samalik Did someone say that? I have them blocked I guess. Yeah, no, gambling is playing a game for actual personal stakes regardless of chance. Playing chess for money is gambling, play poker for fun is really not.
I take a gamble every time I move my left joycon xxx
Whilst I agree that this rating is utterly ridiculous, I suspect (and also hope!) that this instance gains the game a degree of 'notoriety' and keeps it in the headlines... thus provoking additional sales + general interest.
Also, I wonder what the core audience demographic is for this game? At risk of sounding patronising, I wonder how many <18yr old would actually be interesting in playing this? My kids only have interest in Fortnite, Fifa, Rocket League etc...
Ultimately, the rating is absurdly justified - BUT I am hopeful that this area of contention keeps the game newsworthy, and propels sales figures. Genuinely a fantastic game, a must buy for any Spire fans or poker players
@Dm9982 "Also see other countries ratings on it…. None of the rest have done this."
The other countries doesn't have that kind of policies to protect children from gambling, so they don't have problems with games aiming at kids having Poker.
They're going to implement similar insanity in Australia from September this year.
Currently, games with in-game chance-based transactions such as FIFA and the like can be rated as little as G (General), while games with pretend gambling, without any in-game incentive (such as 51 Worldwide Games) are rated M (equivalent of T rating in the US and 12+ rating in Europe).
But from September, chance-based purchases will receive a minimum M rating (which is legally unrestricted), while pretend gambling will be branded with a legally restricted R18+ classification.
They held a consultation sometime last year, to which I responded, and the morons in government just went ahead with their proposal without taking any of my concerns into consideration.
I argued that the conditions should have been reversed, with in-game chance-based purchases (which are a form of real-world gambling) necessitating a minimum R18+ classification, while games with gambling-like elements should be considered on a case-by-case basis (perhaps with a minimum rating of PG). For example, games such as Jeopardy, which is based on a G-rated TV show, contains only very mild gambling-like elements (as you can "wager" your winnings on certain questions). Under the proposal, these G-rated games will now require an R18+ classification! Make it make sense!
Completely and utterly out of touch.
@fenlix See I feel as though you’re trying to call me out as an American as if I don’t care about protecting children and that’s not the case. I’ve even said I understand the reasoning behind gambling being a higher rated rank on the age scale the ESRB/Pegi use. I actually have a brother that has lost a lot due to gambling addiction.
What I argue is that this game doesn’t deserve such a ranking, and it doesn’t get such in other countries because IT IS NOT A GAMBLING SIMULATOR OF ANY KIND. Got that?
There are FAAAAAAR worse offenders out there than this….. this is not going to lead to gambling addiction of any kind. It’ll lead to better math skills if anything. LocalThunk even posted that they were going toss the game back up in EU under an 18 rating just so players could be able to purchase while they contested the Pegi ruling. Which if you remember correctly was originally a lower value….
Lastly, the “guilty until proven innocent” tripe of Pegi isn’t a thing I’d be bragging about. Under their ruling a man would be shot before being able to prove his innocence. That’s a third world approach to a problem.
@-wc- It's a combination of things. Virtual currency, poker(-lite), buying cards, losing those cards at the end of the run, rng.
@Samalik Rpgs have random elements indeed, but the player has some control over the outcome, otherwise you would never be able to beat one. Or it would be pure luck based. Which it's not. Also Poker isn't purely luck based, but it's mostly luck based so it counts.
It becomes different with lootboxes/gatcha elements. And here both a Dutch and Belgian judge have said those would be considered gambling. This is why, for example, Pokémon Masters Ex isn't available here.
@sanderev You have a lot of control over the outcome of the rounds in Balatro, more so than you think. The game is an rpg rogue lite with an economy. Your first two rounds should be finished without purchasing anything from the shop. Before facing the first boss, buy one joker with a multiplier. On the next set, buy one more joker before that boss, either a chip booster or another multiplier. The goal is to save your money as much as possible, trying to maintain $25 at all times to have $5 interest (this by default is the opposite of gambling, lol)
Get through all the decks, then start going through them again at red stakes difficulty and so on. You will 100% see that this is a game of strategy, and the only rng that’s against you is the shop draws, which you can brute force through by saving your money.
This is required on the higher difficulties, and isn’t taught to you until you reach Black Deck. That deck is the first time you truly cut your teeth into managing your interest and continue building.
I should also say, the first three rounds are always 300, 450, 600. And there’s simple math behind beating them easily without spending much. First match you can win 100% of the time by using a Straight A-10 or K-9. High card flushes can accomplish this as well. Round 2 requires one straight and one flush/full house or a couple high rank 2 pairs. The boss will require luck of 2 high straights or just get a multi joker.
You can quickly see how this is no different than managing Gold in Octopath to gear your character for a battle. And just like a standard rpg, it’s fully necessary to learn which gear works and how.
Lastly, DO NOT focus on Straights, Straight Flushes, Flushes, or any other 5 card hand during your first attempts….. if you do you’ll be relying a LOT more on luck than you should be. Focus on one of the lower hands - High Card, Pair, Two Pair, 3 of a kind. Pick one and exclusively level it. You’ll quickly make your way to finishing white stakes.
@Dm9982 Have you ever played regular poker? Because there is also a lot of tactic involved there. Would you classify poker as gambling?
Placing a wall of text doesn't make your point valid. This game is classified as a gambling simulator (if it were real gambling it would actually be banned entirely), and I agree with that.
@sanderev Well in America we classify gambling as wagering a bet, simulated or real, in the chance that you win your wager back and then some, or you loose entirely.
There’s no wager to be had here. And it’ll he interesting to see if the ruling on this game gets flipped.
Do you consider a game of Old Maid or Go Fish gambling as well? Or video games I’ve mentioned? Because if you don’t then you’re invalidating your own logic.
Also I wasn’t trying to argue, I was giving you pointers on how to do better at the game, since again, it’s a strategy rpg at the core.
Here’s a vid link of late game play. Tell me again how this in particular looks like gambling
Due take notice of the particular end result score….. 3.061e11…..
And for the record yes, I’ve played real poker. A few variants of it. For fun and for cash. This ain’t the same.
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/s/ksmxreAs1f
once I've finished with the gateway drug that is Pocket Card Jockey I'll move onto this.
Silly old out of touch men saying a pseudo poker game is too naughty while the eshop is flooded with softcore stuff and tiktok is on every 12+ year olds phone. We live in a society. Or used to.
@fenlix
i played poker with my grandparents as a small child. I can assure you they had absolutely pure intentions regarding my well being 🙄
@Dm9982 Another wall of text. We're not talking about the US here. EU anti-gambling legislation is very strict. PEGI = Europe/EU. (Pan European Game Information).
Also I don't know Old Maid or Go Fish. So I can't comment on those. Also we're not talking about Old Maid or Go Fish.
Wikipedia Old Maid:
Looking at the rules of Go Fish I wouldn't count it as gambling. But I can be wrong there.
You are trying to overwhelm me with text that doesn't, in any way, relates to my point. And most of your replies are purely whataboutisms.
The base gameplay simulates Poker. Poker, or similar games, are considered gambling. So this game is simulated gambling. Case closed.
On nintendo.co.uk it still says PEGI 3 on the details and on the banner image
@Poodlestargenerica I disagree on the chess thing. Doing a money match in chess is pure strategy. And the same could be said with a master Yu-Gi-Oh player who has sanded away all probability out of his 3-round deck, as there's just as much strategy in building as there is in actively playing.
I think the problem is imagery associated with gambling (Ie playing cards and poker references) I don't agree with it but I think that's their angle
@Samalik Well you're definitely wrong about Yugioh since any card game is inherently draw based. And chess is not pure skill unless both players play perfectly, I assure you I am a smart person who has known how to play chess since I was a little kid, but I could outplay someone trying to hustle me at poker easier than I could at chess. And that goes double for Magic, which is not yugioh, but is close enough to make the comparison. Skill and strategy are a huge part of gambling and dumb people do not make money doing it.
The part that changes things is putting money on the line, because if you play no stake poker against a stranger there is nothing to stop someone from making dangerous plays. That's the difference between gambling and not. Once money is on the line, the psychology of everything completely changes and it becomes a gambling game. If you bet someone twenty dollars you can beat them at chess and you can't, that's still gambling if you continue to do it, that's the same as problem gambling.
@sanderev No players do not. RPGs are universally based on pen and paper RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons, which rely on dice rolls and pure luck to get anywhere and is simulated through RNG. But because money isn't on the line, the rush you get poses no threat to actual gambling addicts.
You're wasting your time and bending definitions of gambling for the sake of a false justification. Reality is, the game got a 18+ gambling rating purely on aesthetics. Which is wrong. The game itself isn't a casino fronted game. It's just made with generic playing cards you can already buy, even as a child, from a grocery store.
@Poodlestargenerica then it's a matter of skill, like any game. If you play against someone dumb and incompetent in any game, then that's on them for betting money on a skill-based game they barely know how to play. Especially in a game as well over-dissected as Chess with 100s of years of strategy.
And yes, you can do such things in Yugioh. The decks have to be built around the round sets, but championships are respected and held around the game for a reason. I dunno about Magic, but in yugioh, you have cards that allow you to pick out the exact card you need from your deck, forgoing probability in favor of strategy or really increasing the odds of drawing your much needed card drastically. The game gets insane with what you can do in other words, and is defined by that chaos today compared to what I hear about Magic and Poke'TCG or even played out of Shadowverse, which come off as far more reserved. You can always try out Master Duel for yourself on Switch, although it only has a 1-round format when master Duelists are use to at least 3-rounds.
Of course, your typical casino game doesn't have much in the way of player control. Hence why it's too risky to put money down on them.
It's so dumb that Balatro got an 18+ rating, especially considering that other games which can actually make you addicted to spending real money got lower ones as some mentioned, and even more so that they removed it just to change that... anyway, glad it's at least back in Europe, hope it will be back sooner rather than later everywhere else, too!
@Samalik You have no semblance of what gambling means in real life terms or how much skill it takes to win at games like poker. There will always be skill level discrepancy, that does not negate what gambling means. I have probably played chess, magic, and poker since before you were born, and I have played some of them with the goal of winning money I needed to live. I understand risk and strategy, and card based gameplay and design. Basketball is skill based too, betting on it is gambling. It's not less so if one of the participants is playing because you are not going to win everything you ever play.
If you're going to compare everything to slot machines or roulette, those are literally just throwing money away. If you're gambling without skill, then you're losing.
If this is 18+, I'm certainly ignoring age restrictions on games from now on.
@Mortenb You really should to begin with. Violence aside, they often over-exaggerate just how "bad" something is in a game, assuming it's even bad for you or your kids to begin with.
Welp @Poodlestargenerica blocked me for a weird reason. I thought we were having a conversation...
@sketchturner I'm expecting realistic depictions of dismemberment, blood and gore from this game
@Samalik I wasn't talking about pen and paper DnD / RPG. Which is literally less than 0,1% of the entire RPG playerbase. And ofcourse no money is involved (real or fake) so it's not gambling. I never said it was. So it's just another projected whataboutism.
The game is based purely around playing/simulating poker. That's enough for a "gambling" warning icon. Since poker is gambling. Let me repeat:
POKER IS GAMBLING
So this game is correctly labelled as simulated gambling.
@sanderev Now you're just making up nonsense, downplaying pen and paper RPGs even after Baldur's Gate really blew up the series.
There is also no money involved in this game. It's a one and done video game that made up new rules for playing cards. And no money is involved in poker by default either. Only chips, in themselves are just points with no long term value.
Keep talkin. You're still bending the definition while the rest of us have a solid, legal understanding on what gambling is. None of us are convinced this rating is justified. Comes off as panic button stuff.
Bought it today and yip, it's got a pretty addictive loop. Didn't actually get that from watching Alex's video but once you play it boy does it click. Felt compelled to buy it to support the developer after this ratings fiasco
@Samalik I am not bending anything. You guys are adding whataboutisms that add absolutely nothing to the argument or my opinion on the matter.
I have explained my point multiple times now. I am not going to repeat myself again.
@sanderev So you have your opinion and I have mine. My “walls of text”, which is an insult by the way, and I never insulted you….. were carefully typed and thought out, and designed to give you tips about the game and joke around. Because this whole thing is silly.
You’ve taken this as a personal crusade like you work for or are paid for by Pegi. I merely think it’s a bs rating @ 18+ when in the US it’s 12. An 18+ can impact sales, especially for a small developer who was just trying to make a fun game for everyone.
In truthfulness I believe the ESRB and Pegi are more or less bs anyways, and it should be the parents job to protect their children, be more involved with what they do, and pay attention to what they watch and play. But hey, what do I know, I’m just a parent of 2 little gamer girls and I’ve been gaming since 1985….
But anyways, enjoy the game man, and have a good day!
Also, you do realize that “whataboutisms” as you call them, are the exact way a legal defense works when making points and arguments? So while you may believe they add nothing, they actually do.
@nhSnork
But what is next with this viewpoint? Maybe you also think that clubs are weapons of war? Personally, I think that diamonds mean money for this art. But, is that the shape of your heart?
@Dm9982 ? The slots were not disabled in the Game Corners of the Virtual Console ports of Gen I & II afaik. Can you find any evidence of this online? I know that’s the reason why the games received higher age ratings, but I have not seen any proof that the Game Corners were edited in any way for those releases whatsoever.
@Markiemania95 I know cause played through them on the VC. You literally cannot play the slots in the game corner. It’ll give you a message saying something along the lines of “this looks like a video game for adults”
You can’t gamble in any fashion to get the coins, only purchase them via the guy that usually gives you the coin case
There’s even an article about the slight edit on Nintendo Life
Now I speak for the American VC versions, I’m not positive on Euro versions.
@Dm9982 Any link to that article? Any screenshots? Any video evidence? Because I am almost certain that you are confusing those releases with the Let’s GO remakes on Switch. I can’t find anything on Serebii, Bulbapedia, YouTube, Wikipedia, Reddit, this website, etc about it.
I know it wasn’t Let’s Go, I haven’t made it that far in Let’s Go…… but you might be partly right…. I might be confusing it with HGSS…. I know I was playing the Pokémon game on DS/3DS, that much I’m positive of. I’ll have to boot up my 3DS and check.
@Dm9982 Yeah, in the Western versions of HeartGold & SoulSilver, they replaced the slots with Voltorb Flip, a minesweeper-esque game. You may be thinking of that.
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