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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

It may or may not be allowed, but it’s mainly self censorship by companies to avoid controversy with the audience, not the government.

[-] lil_tank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

But it's always framed as the ministry of censorship imposing a set of strict wierd rules

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

So besides all the culture war nonsense, is the game actually good?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Yeah if you like souls games it's genuinely very good.

My primary criticism of it is that the world is gorgeous which makes you want to try and explore it but it is also riddled with invisible walls preventing that.

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

The combat is tight and the aesthetic stuff like the soundtrack and art design is genuinely great and unique but dont expect it to like blow your mind

My main gripe with it is the level design where its somehow both linear and really confusing at the same time

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

the US government is triggered by tall buildings and Tentacruels

[-] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Those are actually calcified floral arrangements

[-] shath@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

ah! so scary

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

They only take the most pristine skeletons from fulan dafa members, trust me bro.

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Theres skeleton enemies in the first level too

[-] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I thought skeleton's were censored in China in the same way and for the same reasons that gore is censored in the west?

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I think the problem is with skulls in particular?

Here's a pretty iconic item, original art and the art in the Chinese version:

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

Nope it's completely false.

Age of Wushu:

I'm not that far into Wukong yet but there's a "Baigujing" Skeleton Spirit in the Journey to the West novel that might make an appearance later depending on what they've drawn on.

It's literally another anti China myth generated by western developers being over cautious about Chinese regulators in the changes they make for their China localisations.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Oh wow, would you look at that. Big cringe for all the devs that perpetuate this nonsense.

[-] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

8c HH now thats value

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Why isn’t Winnie the Pooh in this game???!? Must be see see pee censorship.

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Speaking of anti-China myths about censorship, does anyone have any information on that meme that China can't show blood so all blood is coloured white? I see it constantly in memes to mock Chinese people, and would love to shove some proof into people's faces if it's not true

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is literally a scene in which you fight a boss in an arena filled knee deep with blood. Has to also be a myth.

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

i remember a pubg clone battle royale game circa 2018 that was also somehow a licensed terminator game, and probably existed only in china. upon death, a player just turned into some kind of blue crystal instead of a body, because everyone was a robot or matrix type program or something and no real people were harmed in-game.

it was like the biggest games in WangKas at the time and my still western-oriented brain thought the "no corpses" thing was some censorship thing but now idk

[-] shath@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

the gobbliusm leaving my body when i see a skellington stairs

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Is that the Egypt level or the Mexico level?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like China is finally finished.

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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