Boobs Oddly Censored On Samurai Warriors 3 Cover

[Steppin Razor]

Ah you silly Yanks and your completely pointless censoring.

To echo the statements of most people in this thread, the bottom one actually looks better. It's still a pointless change though.

 

[Raithnor]

Her chest actually looks larger in the second picture.

 

[Something Amyss]

That really is odd. I would have never thought the second pic was censored.

 

[tijuanatim]

I hate to point this out, but will it even matter at all? Seriously, it's Samurai Warriors 3. Is anyone looking forward to this?

 

[emeraldrafael]

OF COURSE ITS NECESSARY!!!! What if i child sees that? Jack Thompson will flip shit. Kids might get interested in SEX!!!

 

[Saltyk]

Oddly, the edited one looks more natural to me. It's hard to explain, but it just seems slightly more aesthetically appealing. Which is even odder since I'm a guy and "Me likes teh boobies!"

It's completely unnecessary though. Why do this? Then again, I'm often surprised by the dumb editing they do in some movies, games, television shows, and even card games. Yeah, they actually edit some card pictures from foreign markets. (I'm a nerd and use to enjoy playing a few different card games)

"I'm tired of these Monkey-Fighting Snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!!!"

 

[Durxom]

I hate to point this out, but will it even matter at all? Seriously, it's Samurai Warriors 3. Is anyone looking forward to this?

I'm pretty much a bunch of us Wii players are, since its only coming out on our console =D Woo!

 

[SonicKoala]

You actually care about such a small discrepancy?

Furthermore, you actually observed that portion of that both of those pictures long enough to notice?

It's not as if it would take a significant amount of time to notice the difference - it is small, sure, but it's still apparent. And the OP is just pointing out how ridiculous it is that someone found it necessary to make such a minor alteration, although I will agree that the second one is more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[Womlet]

I think the top picture makes it look like she has a butt under her shirt.

 

[TLatshaw]

Whether it looks better or not was not the first thing I thought. My first thought was: Who gets paid to look at box art and alter the clothing of the characters?

 

[Jodah]

Basically Americans like violence but shy away from sexual content. A game can be as bloody, gory, and violent as you can make it but if it shows so much as a nipple people freak out.

 

[Therumancer]

This reminds me of the censoring of Ivy Valentine in the promotional art for Soul Calibur IV, albiet the content in the game itself was untouched.

Honestly though, I do think this is pretty ridiculous, but then again censorship has been getting increasingly ridiculous in the US, and has hit a peak (Arnie, ACTA, etc...).

 

[DaxStrife]

Oh no, her cleavage has been 4Kids'd!

 

[BrownGaijin]

I had to walk away for an hour before I noticed any difference. Now that I have seen the difference I gotta say... her boobs look like they're sagging in the first pic.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I hate to point this out, but will it even matter at all? Seriously, it's Samurai Warriors 3. Is anyone looking forward to this?

I've been looking forward to this since I first found out about it...so for about six months now. Samurai Warriors 2 is one of my favorite games ever, and in my opinion outshines everything in the Musou series except maybe Warriors Orochi.

Ah you silly Yanks and your completely pointless censoring.

Fun fact: North American releases of Japanese eroge actually remove the censoring that's in the original.

 

[Amnestic]

I hate to point this out, but will it even matter at all? Seriously, it's Samurai Warriors 3. Is anyone looking forward to this?

I've been looking forward to this since I first found out about it...so for about six months now. Samurai Warriors 2 is one of my favorite games ever, and in my opinion outshines everything in the Musou series except maybe Warriors Orochi.

I preferred SW2 to Warriors Orochi, but maybe I'm just weird.

And yeah, I'm kinda looking forward to SW3 as well.

 

[The Random One]

Hard to tell if it was done because the US is prude or because the Japanese think the US is prude.

Company execs work in mysterious ways.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Good thing they are saving my children from the evil that is the female breast...