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Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship (www.polygon.com)
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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 and Duke Nukem on the Switch.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a bikini. Not nude. Though I suppose you could make the argument it's bra and panties? There aren't enough pixels to say if it's a 2-piece bathing suit or underwear.

My take on that was that Samus didn't wear clothes under her suit. So if you're a woman and you get into power armour, you're probably gonna wear at least a T-shirt and some loose fitting shorts, right? One would think. But I guess for reasons (like the fact that the suit can handle extreme temperatures both ways), it probably needs direct contact with a lot of skin to adapt, or something. So she strips down to bra and panties to get into the suit. Totally makes sense. It's not meant to be sexy, it's a utility, the suit is a tool for her as an intergalactic bounty hunter.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You must not have grown up back then. The game does show her in bra and panties if you're fast enough. The rumor was that she was full on naked tho if you were even faster than the bikini easter egg. But that was some bullshit, and you couldn't just look at a wiki to know this, you had to find out for yourself.

There were other similar rumors back in the day for all sorts of games. "Nudalities" in Mortal Kombat. The ability to actuslly obtain the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. Getting to play as Luigi if you collected 121 stars in Mario 64 (later was actually made real in the DS release, but you unlocked Yoshi not Luigi). Etc.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago

You've contradicted yourself, though. Do you see it? I'll give you a moment, and I'll put it in a spoiler. If you are as old as me or maybe older, and you've been a gamer about as long as I have (maybe longer, maybe nearly as long), you might appreciate a good puzzle. Try to find the logical fallacy.

spoilerHow would I know what rumours about games you heard in your hometown if we didn't have a wiki or something like that? But you're right, because I've been gaming since the early 1980s. We had our friends, and we had magazines like Nintendo Power. One rumour I did hear was that there was a hidden chocolate factory in Super Mario Bros. (the first one). Note that this rumour was going around before Super Mario World introduced Choco Island or whatever it was called, so either it's coincidence, or the rumour made it back to Nintendo. As a kid I thought it was like a whole other game on the cartridge, different graphics and enemies and such. Later in life I figured it was just a palette swap.

Furthermore,

spoilerI remember one game where I didn't have help from people at school because no one really had computers back then. I was playing a game called Zak McKracken on the Amiga, and my father and his best friend were also playing it. We had a rule, no one would watch the others playing, but we would share tips. It was a point and click adventure, kind of like our generation's Life is Strange or The Walking Dead (Telltale). So you had to figure stuff out. And I even solved a couple of the puzzles and had to help the adults get through that part (or they let me believe I cracked the code for them).

Two more things, outside the logical fallacy thing. There WAS nudity in an Atari game (Custer's Revenge was the name, IIRC) so it wasn't exactly unprecedented. And two... you don't get the Triforce in Ocarina of Time? I never completed it. I did not like the Nintendo 64. I bought it, didn't like it, gave it to my brother, and bought a PlayStation. I started Ocarina a few times. On the N64. On the 3DS (my wife's). On the Switch via Virtual Console. I even have it on my MacBook (Ship of Harkian). That save is still in the first dungeon (the deku tree). I suck at Ocarina (and 3D Zelda in general). Love the 2D ones, though.