Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes Deemed Too Risque For Japan
will be getting an official release in Japan, but the version of the game that makes it over won't be the same as the one that most people are familiar with. The Japanese version of the game is being published by Spike Chunsoft, known for a variety of RPGs, visual novels, and more. In addition to the Japanese games that the company develops and publishes, they've handled the localized versions of over a decade of major western games starting with, which includes the games from developer Larian Studios.
Spike Chunsoft isn't a stranger to pushing the envelope, and a variety of games under the company's name lean into dark or edgy elements. was among the small library of Nintendo DS games to receive an M rating from the ESRB, and the series takes the visual novel format in a particularly murderous direction. Even so, the Japanese rating system has certain restrictions that go further than ESRB guidelines, and it's not particularly surprising that has managed to run up against some of these walls.
Spike Chunsoft is cutting explicit content from the Japanese release, as announced on the official Spike Chunsoft website and reported by IGN. In the standard release of the game, these options are handled by toggles, with the option to turn off both cinematic nudity and visible genitalia. The Japanese version of simplifies things by removing the toggles altogether, restricting sexual content to a more implicit feature for those who choose to pursue it. This change is in accordance with the Code of Ethics from Japanese rating board CERO, which contains certain hard rules that apply even to the strongest rating of Z.
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