{"id":4197,"date":"2016-06-02T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:35:16","slug":"criminal-girls-2-censorship-and-ao-east-vs-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2016\/06\/02\/criminal-girls-2-censorship-and-ao-east-vs-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Girls 2, Censorship and AO East vs. West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of JRPGs and other niche Japanese games, I always find ratings standards differences between the U.S., Europe and Japan laughable. \u00a0Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstationlifestyle.net\/2016\/06\/01\/criminal-girls-2-us-release-date-ps-vita-will-censored-launches-west-september-20\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.playstationlifestyle.net\/2016\/06\/01\/criminal-girls-2-us-release-date-ps-vita-will-censored-launches-west-september-20\/', 'Criminal Girls 2');\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Girls 2<\/a> as a perfect example.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As with the first in the series, <em>Criminal Girls: Invite Only<\/em>, \u201cPunishment\u201d will be framed as \u201cMotivation,\u201d and other terminology changes from the first game will also apply here \u2026 This reduces the power distance between the player character and the girls in the Reformation Program and makes the activities of the game more consensual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 and \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of this [no Motivation Scene Dialogue] \u00a0could cause an issue with power distance, or perceived consent of the activities of the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I give NIS America kudos for taking the time to spell out exactly what is being censored, but I disagree with censorship. \u00a0Let\u2019s let the consumer decide, and if an anime based JRPG influenced game is really worthy of an AO rating in the U.S., something is very wrong. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/Synopsis.aspx?Certificate=34385&Title=DOOM\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/Synopsis.aspx?Certificate=34385&amp;Title=DOOM', 'Violence');\" target=\"_blank\">Violence<\/a> is always condoned over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/Synopsis.aspx?Certificate=33759&Title=Criminal+Girls%3a+Invite+Only\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/Synopsis.aspx?Certificate=33759&amp;Title=Criminal+Girls%3a+Invite+Only', 'sexual themes');\" target=\"_blank\">sexual themes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just compare the newest Doom (hint \u2013 violence link) to the first Criminal Girls title (hint \u2013 sexual themes) to drive the point home \u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of JRPGs and other niche Japanese games, I always find ratings standards differences between the U.S., Europe and Japan laughable. \u00a0Take Criminal Girls 2 as a perfect example. As with the first in the series, Criminal Girls: Invite Only, \u201cPunishment\u201d will be framed as \u201cMotivation,\u201d and other terminology changes from the first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2016\/06\/02\/criminal-girls-2-censorship-and-ao-east-vs-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminal Girls 2, Censorship and AO East vs. West<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[11,66],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games-2","tag-rpg","tag-vita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}