“Strongly Sexual” Monpiece Cards Banned
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 22, 2014 09:01 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Censorship, Compile Heart, Monster Girls, PSP, Social Games, Translation
Monster musume fans look to be overjoyed and enraged in equal measure with the news that Compile Heart’s PSV card ’em up Monster Monpiece is being released internationally – but that due to their “strong sexual nature” a large number of monster girls have been dumped to protect the fragile minds of western gamers from corruption.
The game is just too sexy for the barbarian masses, localisers Idea Factory say in an apologetic missive (although they do at least provide detailed disclosure):
Idea Factory International, Inc. would like to inform fans and prospective users of Monster Monpiece that we have made the decision to remove several Monster Girl images from the North American and European versions of Monster Monpiece.
The gameplay, game system, and storyline are fully intact and Idea Factory International strives to localize and publish Idea Factory titles with the same content as their Japanese releases.
Here is the list of Monster Girls whose images have been limited to that of their level 1, 2, or 3 evolution form due to the strong sexual nature of the card images: Vampire, Kraken, Goblin, Cockatrice, Kobold, Skeleton, Titania, Bahamut, Fia, Brownie, Pegasus, Mandragora, Mau Sibau, Rafflesia, Death Scorpion, Phantom, and Tengu.
We fully understand that there are needs and demands for the complete version of these games.
Our intention and motivation is to offer Idea Factory titles in a form that is as close as possible to the Japanese versions.
This was a tough decision, but we would greatly appreciate your understanding and support.
Much in the way of understanding or support seems unlikely, but those willing to overlook this can get the title in download form sometime in the spring.
Some examples of the sort of thing western Monpiece fans may be missing out on:
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Mangaka Pay Tribute to Kyushu
Street Fighter V Enlists Guile
Chinese Death Simulator “Hopefully Won’t Explode”
Re:Zero “In The Nick Of Time!”
Muma Astacia Sultry Succubus Ero-Figure
Hundred Sloppy Kissing Anime
Greek Woman “Born Without A Vagina!”
Let It Die Trailer Unforgettably Fierce
Shinjuku Station Reveals “All Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Ever!”
KanColle Arcade Scores A Direct Hit
Bakuon!! Relentlessly Cute
Fuwary Gymnastics Girl Onahole Frighteningly Flexible
Star Fox Animated Short Takes Flight
Big Order “Big & Scary!”
Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei Really Retro
Monster Hunter Generations Monstrous As Ever
Live Action Naruto Stage-Play Filthier Than Ever
Ragnarok Mobile “Blasphemy Against Ragnarok Online”
Luxurious Shadow Wing Figure
Alice Margatroid Ero-Cosplay by Hiyo Nishizuku Full of Cheer
Sheryl Nome Bunny Girl Cosplay by Mike Super Scandalous
Marvelous Madoka Mizugi Cosplay by Mashiro Yuki
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
Goddess of 2ch “Another Bathing Beauty!”
Tantalizing Hestia Cosplay Busts Out
What a giant fuck you to casual "gamers".
rather a giant fuck you to mature gamers with an interest in this kind of gameplay.
Ah well, I'm not interested in social card games either way. But I can say that this decision of Idea Factory just strengthens my dislike of such games as a whole.
As for monster girls in general... I've already preordered Vanadis' next eroge title '聖もんむすFestival!! ～お祭りだよ全員集合！～', which comes out by the end of February. No doubtly a better money investment than this social card game for the psp.
It's not a social card game, it's a PS Vita Card Tower Defense RPG.
>Tower Defense
Ew.
The fact is, they probably do wish they could release this game untouched and just translated, but that would require western society to change. I just think they're afraid of ending up scapegoats for the um... "pedobear hunters"?
It actually doesn't require any such thing.
They could have released it untouched and it wouldn't have been an issue (ESRB would still be M and PEGI would be 16) and people will still bitch at them about "sexism" and what not whether the self-censor the game or not.
Also, Agarest Wars 2 had a feature where you can massage a loli in her underwear. That was released uncensored in the US by Aksys Games and it never had an issue.
This is because of the handful of large English-speaking countries that try to child-proof everything, like America and Australia.
Companies don't want to risk getting their games banned.
there's only one solution, don't buy it.
People of that mindset are only happy when
nobody can buy it
Certainly would be preferable aoitoriko; otherwise they will do it again and again until it is just habit ruining everything.
At least you have a choice. If they won't release it, who wins?
So instead they risk nobody buying their crippled game. It's lose-lose.
I've never seen any evidence of people mass boycotting videogames over similar content removal. Maybe I'm just missing something, but has any game actually suffered poor sales as a result of censorship?
But putting that aside, I don't see how this is a lose-lose. At the very least, they are securing access to a wider audience through being able to sell their games in traditionally sexually repressive regions without too much trouble from the moral guardians. At very least it's a win-lose for them.
13:43
That is because the boycott never been done in large scale, just many different people not buying the game because the content was altered. There is no petition, no forum or no news, just different people on their own, not buying the game.
Also, for most part the censorship was a result from the pressure coming from some western family/feminist oriented organization, in which they can and will tear inside out the company's image, so its not the company's fault for that questionable decision. The boycott only worsening the situation, and is never a solution for this problem.
Nope, there is no evidence of any kind of boycott doing anything but increasing the sales of targeted merchandise. The people boycotting were never going to purchase the item in the first place but the boycott puts the product in the news giving it free exposure and peeking peoples curiosity.
L4D2.
@14:35
Mugen Souls
Case closed.
You know that western feminists and mainstream media would've had a heyday with something like this. How dare you sexualize the female body! There's nothing overtly sexual about it! ... lol, what a joke. They probably would've taken it a step further and threw around accusations of glorifying child pornography, or something ridiculous like that.
add to that stupid italian moralists that censor even blood in Naruto, one piece, dragonball
so those fucks are responsible for the water running out of rock lee's bandages in the first tournament?
While I agree with you, this case is actually more about the UK's loli law more than anything else. Most of the removed content is going to be pictures of what appear to be little girls of an early teenage age or younger.
So much fail in such a short letter...
SANKO, the cards aren't *DROPPED*, the designs on top of them are changed.
Since you "rub" the cards to power them up (and erase clothing), they felt they need to do that.
It's still bullshit, tho.
Yeah this is a giant, "fuck off" kinda deal. They shouldn't be afraid and just license the cards anyways. You know people will just print up online version of these cards anyways.
This is a VIDEO game.
Another title in the line of the ones that many won't buy due to heavily altered/crippled content. I for one want the games complete or not at all.
It's a shame really, I like IF games.
It's almost as bad as censored porn...
Not so, since when censored porn is released, everybody gets to see the same thing everywhere.
Most japanese censored porn actually gets uncensored when they get shipped to the west...
This on the other hand is just bullshit... I don't even see any nudity there. I mean, I doubt this game is marketed towards kids anyways. God the people here in the west are close minded...for fucks sake.
It's not so much the people than the politics and some "well thinking" associations which are the problem. They are kind of like Ishihara and Agnes-chan, no one likes them but they still believe they know what we should do or not (namely what they want us to do) while they do stuffs we couldn't even imagine behind closed doors...
I allways compare those feminininazis to muslim faithmongers trying to make the sharia status quo.
Think about it... both want women out of different places.
I just want to let you know that not all feminists agree with the sentiment that female bodies should not be shown off.
I'm a feminist, I'm just not some evil overarching lunatic. I'm just as outraged over this garbage as everyone else.
Bodies should be celebrated, and loved, even if they're monstergirls. Or perhaps, especially if they're monstergirls. :3
It's possible that I believe that way because I'm a lesbian and want some Monstergirl yuri outside of Embric of Wulfhammer, but what the Hell, as an addendum to the previous post. (I probably need to register an account here now)
There's a known distinction made in society between "feminists" and "feminazis", isn't there?
Looks like the decent colelction of pictures you can find this or that way on enough webpages - N i can't even determine the monsters for most (the easiest would probably be the Golem, Dragon and Tarantula).
The boycott (which I'd join if I'd own a PSV ...) won't be noticed anyway since the expected sales are probably small as is - thus not warranting the hassle to make different versions and apply them to the retarded national media controll institutes.
Hail state-controll, allthough here it's an institue of the "public domain" independent from the state (yeah right) <.<
Half of them would get you arrested, lol..
*sigh* Oh Japan, you perverse, old fucks you. Trying to advertise a product through the classic use of (nearly) naked girls, not even trying to use another better way of advertising. Good show, good show.
And yes I know "sex sells", but c'mon!
In Japan, sex is cheap. 2 20 year olds will suck your dick at pinsaro for $20. Sex is bangkok level cheap in a country with 100 times the GDP of Thailand lol.
Japanese girls suck 50 dicks a day for the equivalent of American walmart wages. LOLOLOLL
Of course, they're actually making a difference in Japan. The country is sick and tired being #1 in low birth-rates per year.
and that's why they're gathering new blood, by having sex with foreigners and "polluting the pure japanese blood", or whatever their conservative fanatics claim.
I dont get it. America's porn is uncensored and just as easy to access as anything on the internet... So...why this revision. This is so mystifying...
Also, the people who would be buying/playing this would most likely be late teens/young adults in the 20s. Perfectly legal and age appropriate. >=Z
This title is rather misleading. These cards are not banned. They are being selectively edited by the company porting the game. C'mon. I played Dante's Inferno, L.A. Noire, and God of War. All of these games have all out nudity (I mean DI had the end boss with a monster swingin' donkey cock). I think western gamers can handle some monster girlies.
I call xenophobic bias; Japanese games, and only Japanese games, are the ones dealing with all the bullshit. Hell, I was having a Twitter conversation some time back about how there was apparently a bigger controversy over the Sorceress in Dragon's Crown than the entirety of GTAV.
You know what makes this even sadder? Japan already had their console/portable games neutered to begin with. Seriously, aside from how toned down their eroge ports are, I don't think Sony or Nintendo is allowing them to show so much as a single nipple if they want to sell it in their own region. That's a pretty far cry from Sony International's standards for God of War, where a sex mini-game is perfectly fine.
I believe the people who attack Dragon Crown is being cautious to attack the bigger companies, since they have bigger support from fans and able to do something about the attack, hence the attack aimed towards Japanese games since they are niche in west.
I also suspect they also choose to attack gamers, not Hollywood or other big industries aside gaming, because gamer have the least protection of all and quit frankly, is more susceptible to manipulation (there's plenty of people with communication/social problem among gamers).
Anyway, its really odd since the most western do accept the partial nudity and porn, its plenty in all media, TV, news, song, movie, show, pretty much everything, and actress do nude shot all the time.. so why there are still people keep attacking the sex theme in game?
Is there some sort of prejudice that games is for kids, so it should not contain adult material? Do they think less about adult gamer or simply do not aware that we exist? Or the real reason is like I point out before, because the attackers know gamers are the "easy meat", hence the repeated attack towards gaming industry to spread their own propaganda?
I've observe how these people comment and know the discussion pattern, and know well about their view and mentality. They simply is very biased and narrow minded. They get very defensive and go nut whenever criticized by others..
This is why we need the Vita hacked! I'm pretty sure someone would be able to mod the ISO to fix everything.
Thanks for the pics. Now I don't need the game. :-]
It's the Naked Misty card crap all over again.
Or Yu-Gi-Oh, so many cards were edited, often absolutely pointlessly.