BX3 said:
That's the thing though, I don't even see it as damaging just... kinda annoying. And maybe a bit patronizing, but that's a personal thing. It's weird because this game is about as weeb as weeb can get, so the average consumer is already turned off from it, and now the fellow weebs are being spurned because they're altering the stuff that we've never had a real problem with in the first place, which makes it annoying and confusing. Then apparently, they didn't even bother to consistently remove all aspects of the cheesecake, so now it's annoying, confusing AND didn't even accomplish what it set out to do.
I just don't actually get it.
I'd say that's a normal reaction, Dreiko's view that changing anything is somehow "tantamount to sacrilege" and that it gives a work a "brittle and Fragile nature" is honestly a very extreme reaction that views the audience as weirdly emotionally fragile. Most people don't see changes like this in such a stark light as the company that owns the property can change things without it being a disaster or a crime against art in most people's eyes, we just judge whether the changes are negative or positive and how they effect the game as a whole.
Most people's "psyche" isn't being damaged by this, even most SMT and FE fans are emotionally strong enough to just roll their eyes and accept that big companies do dumb shit from time to time, at least they aren't EA and trying to nickel and Dime us all to death with DLC and buggy releases.
In this case, despite the arguing in this thread, I think most people here are agreeing that it's a weird change, that doesn't seem to actually accomplish eliminating the game's fanservice, and seems wholly unnecessary. It strikes me as a wholly corporate decision, like the NoA localization team just making changes to justify their budget, or to appease the ESRB in some fashion, not for a lower rating like knocking it down from an M to a T rating, but if the changes make it so it doesn't get a partial nudity or sexual themes content tag, NoA might be trying to do that for some reason.
Still, yeah, kind of comes off as patronizing to the Western otaku crowd who's already used to Japan's tendency to insert fanservice into underage (in the West) characters, honestly, I don't really get why NoA seems to be the main ones doing this, and not even consistently. Nintendo's a weird company, when every other Japanese game seems to be getting by just fine with fanservice intact, bar the porno visual novels edited for release on Steam, NoA seems to just be doing their own thing.
EDIT: In the end, I'd think most fans are more bothered by the game just kind of sucking than they are about this, everything I've heard about the game has been pretty lukewarm to outright negative. I suppose Nintendo could be trying to attract casual handheld owners in a younger age demographic, since the game is likely going be a failure among the weeb crowd in the West like it was in Japan. Try to attract a wider audience since your usual dedicated fanbase already largely dislikes the game. That's just another guess on my part though.
