{"id":32269,"date":"2018-07-12T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_taisen_hot_gimmick_switch_port"},"modified":"2018-07-12T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:50:00","slug":"nintendo-clamps-down-on-risque-imagery-by-censoring-taisen-hot-gimmick-switch-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/12\/nintendo-clamps-down-on-risque-imagery-by-censoring-taisen-hot-gimmick-switch-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Clamps Down On Risqu\u00e9 Imagery By Censoring Taisen Hot Gimmick Switch Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_taisen_hot_gimmick_switch_port\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_taisen_hot_gimmick_switch_port\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Zerodiv&#8217;s mahjong game\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/taisen_hot_gimmick\">Taisen Hot Gimmick: Cosplay-Jan<\/a><\/strong> has recently made it onto the Switch&#8217;s Japanese eShop, previously being available exclusively in the country on PlayStation 2. Being the family-friendly company that Nintendo is, however, the game&#8217;s lead image on the digital storefront has been replaced with a much more innocent version.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of the game, it essentially plays as an adult-themed mahjong title &#8211; which we&#8217;d imagine is a pretty niche market, but <em>each to their own<\/em>. The game only supports Japanese language options, and is unlikely to ever be localised for western audiences, but this Switch version <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GA3aoXYqiRc\">trailer<\/a> should give you an idea of what the gameplay is like.<\/p>\n<p>The first image below shows the game&#8217;s leading image on Switch, with the one below that showing how it looked originally. While some readers will have no issue with the second image, here&#8217;s your warning to stop reading if you&#8217;re easily upset or affected by adult themes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_ps2_titles_switch_port\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_ps2_titles_switch_port\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"image1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And the original&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_ps2_titles_switch_port\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_clamps_down_on_risque_imagery_by_censoring_ps2_titles_switch_port\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"image2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The changes certainly do make it seem more family-friendly, but this obviously doesn&#8217;t change the content of the game itself, so we&#8217;re not sure what this really achieves. Similarly, titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/galgun_2\"><strong>Gal*Gun 2<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/senran_kagura_reflexions\"><strong>Senran Kagura Reflexions<\/strong><\/a> have made it onto the platform with no issues, so Nintendo&#8217;s stance on what is\u00a0or isn&#8217;t<em>\u00a0<\/em>acceptable\u00a0seems to be a little on the blurry side.<\/p>\n<p>We imagine you&#8217;ve got something to say on this topic, so let us know by posting something below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zerodiv&#8217;s mahjong game\u00a0Taisen Hot Gimmick: Cosplay-Jan has recently made it onto the Switch&#8217;s Japanese eShop, previously being available exclusively in the country on PlayStation 2. Being the family-friendly company that Nintendo is, however, the game&#8217;s lead image on the digital storefront has been replaced with a much more innocent version. If you&#8217;ve never heard of [&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-32269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32269","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=32269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}