Dispatch’s release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc’s tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch’s censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There’s no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom on the Switch.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
Havent you heard? Violence appropriate, sex and nudity not. Its totally okay to see people being dismembered, but you better never show a nipple.
Manjushri@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin
Katana314@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I recently published my novel, and at the last minute I had this panic about what was appropriate. There’s one bigoted character who calls gay people “f***ot” multiple times, as well as many characters that drop F-bombs on numerous occasions. There’s a (semi-magical) event similar to a mass shooting, many references to torture, and someone’s hand is chopped off. To be really safe, I put a content warning on the first page just to make some of that clear. Surely, that puts it a level beyond the Young Adult region, right? But…possibly not, given what I tend to hear offhand of some series.
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Female nipple. Male nipples are a-ok. 🙄
jasoman@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Twitch also has that rule for streamers.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Reminds me of the days before Bailey Jay transitioned and got in trouble for showing her breasts while waiting in line at Comicon and then protested “but I’m a boy.”
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
And encouraged, as featured in Nintendo’s own Super Mario Odyssey!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yeah, also if we argue that violent videogames don’t cause violence - what’s the problem with sexual content? If they’re censoring sexual stuff because they believe videogames if corrupt and change behaviour, the violent ones should definitely be banned.
Also - I’m using Google’s Android keyboard and just realised the dictionary didn’t know the word ‘sexual’. Just in case someone might try to write something spicy. FFS. It knew ‘violent’ though.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Nudity is fine
Weve got boobs and dicks even in children cartoons here
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 hours ago
Those cartoons on Hentai Haven and Pornhub aren’t for kids.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Not really. Have violence without blood and they’ll rate it teen. Anything close to nudity instant mature rating. Same with searing. Can gun down hundreds if no blood but if they use naughty language while doing it mature /: