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As others have said, my one hope is that she's put an end to the censoring and banning of japanese third party games.

@FullMetalWesker long story short:
The "route zero" of the game has no choices. Its a linear narrative throughout the 100 days. In subsequent playthroughs, you start getting dislogue choices and WILDLY change the direction of the plot (some times, even the game's narrative genre). And to drive it home, once you beat the first route, the game's title screen straight up gives you a big "2" behind the title.

@Vyacheslav333 yeah, ive noticed that as well. Specially with Qureate.

@AussieMcBucket no, the dispatch thing is a matter of thr ESRB. They don't allow for uncensored clevage in cover arts and Nintendo's Eshop follows thst format (look up the cover arts for games like Senran Kagura Estival Versus, Oneechanbara Z2 Chaos, in both instances they cover up the character's chests, despite the games being uncensored. Even in One Piece Unlimited World Red, Nami had to be moved behind another character in the US cover because she wears a bikini top.)

Dispatch will likely be fully uncensored. The artbook too. But the eshop banner had to br censored.

Im all for Parental controls and making sure theres no illegal content on Nintendo. But with the many recent cases of arbitrary Censorship of mature games (particularly japanese mature games that don't feature anything illegal, are properly age rated, and sometimes even release uncensored in other platforms), I can't help but to be a bit apprehensive of all three major suddenly coming out with this coordinated statement. A lot of the points made here are perfectly valid. So I hope im just overthinking it.

@Tempestryke if I recall correctly (someone correct me if im wrong), this didnt get a widespread physical release win america, Only digital. You had to import if you want the physical.

I really enjoyed it on switch even with all the performance issues. Definetly picking this up! SPECIALLY since its been confirmed to be a full physical cartridge!

Ill believe their support when I see actual physical cartridges.

Thats cool but it doesn't come with a real cartridge so hard pass from me.

Might trade in my Switch 1 version of animal crossing for thr Switch 2 edition.
Will probably do that with Kirby too.

@ShadowRJ the images weren't explicit. They were suggestive. Nothing was showing, and they had been approved by the ESRB.

And the cake one in particular, it was very clear that it had been censored. Since half the same screen was covered by a white cloud.

Still, the point is that regardless of whether its big or small, mature works that had been properly age-rated and shouldn't be censored.

@anubisvel its subjective whether you wanna consider it substantial or not. For me, I'm against censoring art in principle, and I LIKE this game. But I wouldn't have bought the switch version if they had been transparent about it from the beginning. Not disclosing that changes were made to the switch version prior to release is incredibly disrespectful, SPECIALLY when its an M-Rated game filled with death, swearing, and sexual jokes and innuendo.

I want an uncensored patch.

I dropped the switch version and finished my playthroigh on PC after I found out the former got some CGs censored. (Really low move to not even announce it anywhere).

@mackers84 oh I do have multiple accounts for different regions. But I guess it doesnt make much sense to create another north American account.

@mackers84 I wonder if I can use USD cards on my Canadian account

@mackers84 where are you finding discounted eshop cards?

Y'all really should list which ones are not Game Key cards (I know not all have been confirmed as physical or Game-key card). but it'd be super helpful.

Picked up Full Metal Schoolgirl. at this point, with all the game key-card bullsh*t I'm only ever buying digital games if they're on sale.

Wish her all the best and hope she'll undo some of the meddling with third party releases that happened under Bowser.

@nhSnork from what I hear that's wht LV5 did. They trained their AI model under their own database of work.

@GoldenSunRM for what's worth, the third game its kind of its own thing. Mostly unrelated to the other 2.

@shonenjump86 kodaka did say he wants to do DLC. I'd be down to return for it. Specially if theres a route that gives more focus to Kyoshika, Takemaru or Ima. They kinda fell like side characters in almost all the routes (and Romance wound up being the only route were Kyoshika gets a good amount of focus).

What are the odds that I see this news right after FINALLY finishing The Hundred Line.

I just want Lilith.

If its exclusive, will they have the decency of making it a proper physical version?

I understand the concern and I dont condone censorship, but this might not be what people are thinking, Nintendo of America kinda follows the same model as ESRB's regulations for box arts, which means no clevage or thin clothing. Even when the game itself isn't censored.

The examples I can think of thr top of my head are Omen of Sorrow and Fantasy Tavern Sextet, both have altered art pn thr eshop page, but fully uncensored in game.
I believe this is the case here but we'll only really know when it comes out.

Good. Now wake me up when there's a proper physical version.

@KingChiliPepper as far as I'm aware the main thing that got censored were a few risqué illustrations in the "cult of Takumi" route. But I heard they also censored some of the more gory pics (though ive yet to confirm that one).

I might speeding the switch version (skip all the dialogue and battles) once I finish it on PC just so I can unlock the whole gallery and compare.

My top 3 are definetly Hundred Line, Xenoblade X, and Air Riders. (Even if I did drop the switch version of Hundred Line for the Steam version when I learned the switches got censored)

Imma be real, I rather have Anniversary, Legend, and Underworld.

@yohn777 it's all good mate. Maybe they were gonna make it real time rendering but pivoted at some point?

@yohn777 yes it is. And I know this for a fact because I worked with modders on a certain game and we were trying to see if we could export the models from dispatch in order to make mods. Except that when we looked into the game's files, we learned that there are NO models in there. Because, like I said, everything you see is pre-rendered.

it really is a shame that some many of these are Game-Key cards. Because of this trash, I only really have 3 Third Party games (Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma, Daemon X Machina Titanic Scion, and -the only game I found justifiable to have as a digital game- Street Fighter 6).

I REALLY hope the complaints about Game-Key Cards are loud enough that they'll start being phazed out sooner rather than later.

how the hell does a game made entirely of pre-rendered cutscenes have framerate issues?

It is genuinely depressing how many of these are just game-key cards.

Only one I can really say im looking forward to is fire emblem.

Makes sense. Sakurai did say there were no plans to support the game long term. My only criticism is that I wish there was some content from Forgotten Land (I was so sure Elphilin would've been a rider, or at least Forgo Dedede's mask as a customization item).

@cvrator that and their gameplay making it someone are discouraged from buying games.

The only success story I remember recently was Hi-Fi Rush and they killed the Studio.

@Samalik I agree that she looks surprisingly decent. Its just my personal pet peeve against studios wanting to make everything realistic. Even Street Fighter 6, while going for realistic rendering, still have cartoons proportions, and I really wish they'd go the same direction with Lara (i think her Underworld renders are the best she's ever looked).

looks decent but I hate this idiotic obsession Western devs have with realism. would it kill them to Keep Lara Croft Stylized like how she looked back in the era between Tomb Raider Anniversary, Legends and Underworld?

Didn't this game horribly flop?

@Nep-Nep-Freak somebody has to really. I bought the japanese version of the game on the shop along with Corpse Party (both have english text), and it's a perfectly inoffensive little RPG with blackjack mechanics. Yet Nintendo of America saw fit to step in and block its release and its really upsetting most Nintendo news sites aren't covering. Now it just got canceled in other regions.

Off topic, but to the staff; Are y'all gonna report on how the Switch RPG Brave X Junction is getting banned in multiple countries? (Including how it got its American release blocked not too long ago?)

Now, you see... these players first mistake was buying Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Gotta be hundred line for me. If for no reason besides the fact that I have been playing it for the entirety of the year.

Shadow Movie, here we go!

I didnt know it was having issues, but its good to know one of the best games of all time is running well on switch 2

Nintendo Life, serious question.

Could you guys NOT refer to Game-Key Card releases as "Physical Editions"?

It's kinda misleading.

I got the upgrade and while it looks great on docked. I dont know what happened to the handheld mode. The graphics look all weirdly fuzzy and pixaleted.

Imma be real, the whole "can't fit on a cartridge excuse" pisses me off.

Sure, the cartridges can only hold up to 64GB. But if thats the case, they could actually use that space and have the game require a 31GB Download. That way you actually save some storage space on the Switch 2's memory.

@UltimateOtaku91 the thing is.

That first game is already on the switch.