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Stellar Blade’s uncensored release in Japan prompts criticism of rating system
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Uhhhhh does Dead Space have a sexy Lady in it? Yeah didn't think so bud.
Did you read the article?
Dead Space was denied a rating entirely, which meant a console release in Japan was impossible.
Basically, Dead Space was rated "unreleaseble" on the CERO scale, while Stellar Blade, which is arguably gorier and sexier, is now getting the greenlight.
Which is a WTF moment.
Idk about stellar blade's content, but CERO is notoriously really touchy with more "macabre" gore (e.g severed body parts, especially heads, bones sticking out, that kind of thing). I suppose stellar blade just has more "acceptable" gore by CERO standards.
Source: I have worked on the Japanese internationalization for 2 Warhammer 40k games. We didn't have to remove that much gore, but there's some specific stuff they will just not budge on.
The article does explicitly state that Stellar Blade features both dismemberment and cuts showing cross-sections of internal organs.
The guidelines we had were mostly about bones iirc, especially if they still had some "meat" on them. I don't remember anything about organs specifically
Actually I remember that one of our unofficial internal guidelines was basically "if resident evil or DMC does it, we should be good". And both of these feature some gore but are usually very light on stuff like bones, (humanoid) decapitations, etc. Again, I assume stellar blade follows similar guidelines as these games regarding this stuff, because Sony (their publisher) obviously knows CERO pretty well