Japanese game studio Idea Factory has toned down sexual content in the upcoming overseas versions of the developer’s card battle game Monster Monpiece.
“Western society is not as lenient as that of Japan when sexual images are involved; especially images of humanoids that appear to be younger than a socially acceptable age,” said the developer in a statement. “The borderline of what is ‘acceptable’ will always be extremely gray and vary from person to person, but as a responsible company working in the US, we had to make the difficult decision that we did.”
Players level-up Monster Monpiece’s all-female game characters by removing their clothes, features called First Crush Rub and Extreme Love. The title has been rated Mature by the ESRB in North America and 12+ in Europe’s PEGI rating system.
“We received a Mature rating for Monster Monpiece from the ESRB with the censored material we submitted,” noted the studio. “However, for PEGI, and with the same material assets for their review, they rated it 12+ because of the minimal amount of violence shown in the game.”
