All they had to do was not fuck it up. They were handed a "win" after the past few years of reveals and previews, then they specifically post on how the game is un-censored in all region and build hype, then day 1 patch in a bunch of censorship. It's a betrayal of trust at best and some insidious bullshit at worst. People always get me on the wrong part of this censorship angle. It's not the specifics of WHAT was censored, it's that it happened to begin with.
Let's look at it this way- Maybe it's someone else who was handed a win and fucked it up.
A lot of people were cheering on thIs game because of the controversy over the sex appeal. Continuing on it's path in a world that shuns this kind of thing. Understandable. I am one.
Eve made it through the door, she made it through the hoops, the bumps, the haters, the manipulators, the bean counters, the regulators, the twitter banshees, and through the final stretch...
...to arrive almost unscathed. 95% unscathed.
Very nice.
Unless, you draw a hard line at your principles I guess. Then 95% isn't good enough. Or 99.99999%, for that matter. Maybe having principles means everything is all or nothing.
Well I have principles too, but I'm a practical type and I consider this final game mission accomplished. Anyone who was holding this game up as a flag for anti-uglification or anti-woke should be using it as a cudgel now that it made it over the line. Reviews are great. Awareness is sky high. And most importantly the game still has a cavernous, chrome ass crack in your face at all times.
My friend, there are hectares of artery-clogging cheesecake in this game. We got side boob, under boob, happy trails, anatomically correct sub-crotch structures, micro-breadloafing, glutes that seat four, and a degree of subcutaneous tissue animation the could be described as
severe.
Seriously people should be championing this game more than ever. Laughing that those little scraps of fabric were all it took for the
horniest aaa game since dead or alive volleyball to get through the censors and to the top page of the store.
Yet here we go, turning it into an L because the little game that could didn't come all the way up the mountain , through all the aligns and arrows,
without a fucking scratch. It came all that way and delivered everything from subtle nipple puff to sunlight glinting off a spandex-constricted labia, but fuck all that - it's the principal of the thing and now we lost and here comes the whaaambulance.
I have to stress that the concept of principles or having them is a real thing and very important but in life there are countless instances where have to take wins where we can get them. And turning down a win this clean all considered is just crazy.