That's surprising, this doesn't happen a lot in the UK so it says a lot about the content.
The last game that was banned was Manhunt 2 ten years ago in 2008.
Huh, why just now? Haven't there been plenty of these shitty ecchi RPGs (Criminal Girls springs to mind) released over there already? How did this one in particular pop up on the radar?
That is a really good point. Out of all the games, why this one? Did the devs of this game have previous beef with the UK?
I guess someone walked into his son's room at the wrong time
They're 300 years old Dad!
How well do these ecchi games sell over here anyway? I can't imagine it's significant. Plus I imagine most people who buy these games do so digitally, in which case they can probably circumvent a ban pretty easily.
From what I can tell from the article it makes it clear within the game's text that it's paedophilic rather than just implying it through young-looking art. Good fucking riddance IMO.
Didn't they ban that Japanese sex offender simulator too? Rapelay or something.
I think after some news articles picked it up, Rapelay even got taken off Jap shelves, though i could be wrong about that. Since then the company has made mostly vanilla stuff with even their darker titles not having as obvious names I think.
Wikipedia said it was banned in Australia and Argentina (which was later reversed). Amazon also prohibited sales. It was wasn't supposed to be sold outside of Japan.
And it isn't even better than the first one.
That's funny coming from a yank.
It's good to know that the UK does more to protect fictional girls from child abuse than they do against real child abuse.
I don't really understand this mentality when its not real people / people aren't getting hurt.
Its just a video game. A really shitty, generic lewd video game.
Can't wait till they ban Succubus Prison too.
I'd rather live in a state like the UK that does too much to protect children than in the US where they get massacred in a place of learning.
This is a very tenuous connection.
"The UK is a joke" is an incredibly exaggerated response.
This ban is dumb as fuck.
Hot zinger. Do you really need to turn the systematic child abuse in the UK (which I am abhorred by) into some sort of twisted, sick punchline to jibe at me with? Do you really have to sink that low?
Believe it or not, unlike you, I don't like the idea of wanting to kill people being normalized by a video game sold on the Steam front page. But, you know, that might be a bit weird to believe, sorry!
Believe me when I say I've written reams and reams on the hypocrisy and evil of how violence is portrayed in our media and I don't believe we're accepting of just how bad violence is for us. But, you know, go ahead and dive for that slippery slope and the Hot Zinger while you vindicate a kiddyfucking game and die on the hill of defending paedo spankbank fodder because you're a Just Crusader against Evil Censorship.
Look mate, the point is that a game doesn't deserve to get banned for it's content if it doesn't involve the real people, the developers already did their job by making the game within the realms of fiction.
This isn't some generic anime wankbait where the characters are young-looking but indeterminable because of the flat detailling of anime art styles, the game actually explicitly states that you're fiddling children from preteens to barely post-pubescent ages. One of them is shown holding a fucking teddy bear for christ's sakes. How can you stand there and act like this is some Crazy Mary Whitehouse hackjob when they're outright banning a sexualised depiction of child abuse? Like.. what is your actual gain from defending that? Do you think it makes you some kind of moralist Frank Castle, boldly defending that which nobody else will? Because all it does is make you look like a freaky paedophile.
I thought you could import it legally.
I am not a pedophile because I am not sexually aroused by children, so I would appreciate if you didn't call me that.
I don't gain anything from defending this game, I don't like it, but I don't believe it should be banned just because it depicts something that if it were to happen in the real world it would be a crime, because fictional depictions of crimes can't be considered to be the same as crimes.
I'm pretty sure Rapelay was never released outside of Japan, that's usually the case with games purely about sex over there. I think the attention it got in the UK was a result of a british guy trying to sell a used copy of the game on Ebay or something. That said it was controversial in Japan as well.
Why are you meeting me with such aggression and accusing me of various things?
The previous post I made was that, in the same vein of killing people in video games, there is no real reason to ban this game.
This is due to nobody being harmed when you kill someone in a video game (or violence in any other media that isnt real.) / real kids arent being harmed in a video game (or being harmed in any other media that isnt real.)
By your logic, we should also probably retroactively ban Deus Ex because you could kill kids in that game. (Although, to be fair at looking at your previous post, you also hate violence in games, which I can understand from your perspective.)
The main issue I have with your posts are the way you present yourself. You come off, as frankly, a prick.
Many of these challenges and mini-games had sexual themes, said the VSC, involving players "touching" and "arousing" the characters and removing their clothes.
The characters are described as "young girls" and their voices and appearance reinforce this impression, said the VSC. One, referred to as a "first year", is depicted holding a teddy bear.
Ech. Good riddance.
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