{"id":122715,"date":"2021-01-02T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/top_hat_studios_issues_statement_regarding_demands_to_censor_sense_-_a_cyberpunk_ghost_story"},"modified":"2021-01-02T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T00:15:00","slug":"top-hat-studios-issues-statement-regarding-demands-to-censor-sense-a-cyberpunk-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/top-hat-studios-issues-statement-regarding-demands-to-censor-sense-a-cyberpunk-ghost-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Hat Studios Issues Statement Regarding Demands To Censor Sense &#8211; A Cyberpunk Ghost Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26548cac46214\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26548cac46214\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/26548cac46214\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>Top Hat Studios &#8211; one of the developers of the upcoming side-scrolling survival horror sci-fi game <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sense_-_a_cyberpunk_ghost_story\">Sense &#8211; A Cyberpunk Ghost Story<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; has issued a statement regarding calls to censor the game after receiving death threats over the art style.<\/p>\n<p>The studio categorically refuses to censor the title &#8211; stating how it won&#8217;t restrict &#8220;creative expression&#8221; and believes creators should be allowed &#8220;freedom&#8221; to express themselves. According to the same statement, there have been threats to review-bomb the title and harass its distributors. In addition to this, it&#8217;s mentioned how it has passed classification.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full and rather lengthy statement, shared by Top Hat on its <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TopHatStudiosEN\/status\/1345071217636732930\">official Twitter page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>If we hear any developments, we&#8217;ll be sure to let you know. Sense &#8211; A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is currently available to pre-order on the Switch for $19.99 and will be released on 7th January. Learn more about this game in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/a_cyberpunk_ghost_story_will_be_haunting_the_switch_soon\">our previous story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Hat Studios &#8211; one of the developers of the upcoming side-scrolling survival horror sci-fi game Sense &#8211; A Cyberpunk Ghost Story &#8211; has issued a statement regarding calls to censor the game after receiving death threats over the art style. The studio categorically refuses to censor the title &#8211; stating how it won&#8217;t restrict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}