• Western "Censorship" In Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness

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    Freya
    Published on 03-29-2016 06:35 PM
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    During an interview on 4Gamer, Producer Shuichi Kobayashi and Director Hiroshi Ogawa of Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness mentioned how the character Miki Sauvester will be showing a little less skin in the western release than originally shown in the Japanese version.

    Miki originally used to wear more "normal-looking" panties under her short dress but Kobayasi mentioned that they received feedback from abroad that it was inappropriate for a teen to be wearing "sexualized underwear". To combat this, they added more fabric onto her model turning the underwear into shorts. Director Hiroshi Ogawa had laughed and said that making the change was "regrettable."

    Surprisingly, the character Fiore will have her checkered outfit untouched. Dualshockers elaborated on her design with the Character designer "Akiman":

    "... the idea for her costume came up by chance, as in the series it has always been considered all right to design sexy outfit. Yet, in the industry there have been recent issues about revealing clothes, causing developers to have to make fixes at later stages of development. That’s why he purposely designed Fiore’s costume to be sexy, but still not showing too much skin."

    Take a look yourselves. If you're not keen on seeing butts, ignore this spoiler!

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    What are you thoughts on changes to characters like this?
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    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage - 03-31-2016, 10:55 AM
      I'm glad they did it because for the longest time now, it's been proven that no game developer in japan has any idea what actually makes a character attractive to an adult person.

      I'll give them a hint though. It's not panty shots on young girls, or a dress that is 50% not there.

      It's not as much censorship as it is protecting the developers from humiliating themselves.
    1. Elpizo's Avatar
      Elpizo - 03-31-2016, 12:24 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
      Well, considering the world is a better place to live than it had ever been, If say we can be pretty proud of ourselves
      And then people accuse me of how it's nice that I live in a world where I'm not objectified. Hah. You have nothing to be proud of. Nothing. That you would even consider saying that with a straight face is something that I find in extremely poor taste.
    1. Fynn's Avatar
      Fynn - 03-31-2016, 12:45 PM
      Of course objectification is a thing. But now we have human rights, women can vote and work and are consistently able to keep fighting for their rights, infant mortality rates have plummeted thanks to the incredible advances of medicine, and you can instantly talk with people around the world with a press of a button.

      I don't think seeing a discourse that's contesting your personal opinions being dominant on a Final Fantasy fansite (or even something bigger like Twitter or Reddit or Tumblr or whatever you kids are using these days) really warrants saying the world is trout and skeletons are to blame for that.

      Yes, objectification is terrible, but we're at least capable of working against it and look, game companies are listening. Just because we're living in objectively the best time period in history doesn't mean we should stop fighting to make the world even better by fixing stuff that's broken
    1. Sephex's Avatar
      Sephex - 03-31-2016, 12:53 PM
      Hello.

      Last chance.

      This nonsense stops now or this thread is nuked.

      Move on, talk about it privately, go discuss other things you are into.

      This ends now.
    1. Loony BoB's Avatar
      Loony BoB - 03-31-2016, 01:40 PM
      I also want to emphasise that it's okay to discuss a topic, but at no point should the word "you" be thrown around so much as it has in this thread. This goes for multiple people. Always discuss the topic, not the person you are discussing it with. Any problem/issue you have with another member is not relevant to the topic and can be discussed in private with staff or the individual.
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