Thread: The player's opinion on editing content

I'm not completely against editing of material if it means allowing it to be released for us, but there are limits. Some of this has just not been necessary at all, and the ones that may be considered necessary were done terribly. The art is the most important part of these games. Time and money should be properly spent on any edits that are made to make sure they come out good.

I'm adding an imgur dump someone posted on ULMF to the main post, to show some of the changes made in Osawari.

Nia is kinda creepy looking now
I'm not even sure why Olivia was edited at all.
Tenryu's body looks fine (actually kinda hot) but the face and hair just don't agree with each other.

These westernized faces look horrible on original anime bodies.

Biggest mystery for me is why the hell they added pentagram and censored cleavage cutout of poor Seira. This cannot be explained by laws, payment processor or common sense at all. If anything, drawing pentagrams on nuns is more likely to get them in trouble with religious folks.

Also, removing collar and chain Shizuku is pure bullshit too. There are no laws against BDSM.
How the hell they are going to release Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena then? Every girl there is raped, often in hardcore ways involving BDSM, tentacles, stomach punching and so on. Is it taking so long because they redraw and rewrite every card and scene, lol?

Originally Posted by Kotono

Time and money should be properly spent on any edits that are made to make sure they come out good.

I've talked with a Nutaku dev on this. Due to tight deadlines, they had to outsource the edits. They knew they fucked up when the art returned but there was no time to fix anything so they pushed through. They want to fix these mistakes. It'll take a maintenance period to replace art so they want to do it as a batch job, not a string of hot-fixes that frequently interrupts play. They can't stop editing at all, but they'll be more careful now.

What exactly compelled them to send Seira for editing? She doesn't look like child and there are no laws, regulations or contracts requiring them turn nuns into satanists. "They can't stop editing" is bullshit, half of characters they edited were perfectly fine in original version.

Who did the art editing, anyway? Was it some random guys Nutaku picked up, or was it a professional studio?

I suppose, like most of us, I agree with edit stuff if there is the only way to bring it here, but the problem, like most of us agree, is the quality, some of them are very poor.

Originally Posted by Schverika

I've talked with a Nutaku dev on this. Due to tight deadlines, they had to outsource the edits. They knew they fucked up when the art returned but there was no time to fix anything so they pushed through. They want to fix these mistakes. It'll take a maintenance period to replace art so they want to do it as a batch job, not a string of hot-fixes that frequently interrupts play. They can't stop editing at all, but they'll be more careful now.

I hope this is true, but until we see changes, those are empty words of a company XD.

Aside the quality, sometimes they change stuff with no sense, for example, original Tenryu Mihoshi looks like a loli, right, but Nia? They did not even respect the cat face. Whats wrong with the face of Tsukishiro Karen?

For example with Nomi Honoka and Olivia the result is not bad.

As far as I know they remove certain card on Valkyrie because the H-Scene have tentacles, seems like Galete (from money Gacha) have tentacles. Inconsistent.

About slavery and rape, they're more delicated themes, and with the double moral of most countries can be very problematic.

Nutaku can throw off the SJWs from noticing the rape scenes to an extent by rewriting them to have girls who aren't human. SJWs are stupid that way. Doing so might screw up the storyline of Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena, but it'll make it possible to get it released with minimal edits artwise.

There are no real problems with slavery or rape. Its not illegal. JAST and MangaGamer released dozens of completely uncensored rape-centered games during last 5 years, and they had zero issues with it. They are openly selling, both online and at cons, games with such cool titles as "Suck my dick or die", "My sex slave is a classmate" or "Slave Witch April" and still nobody ever complained.

I'm a breast man, not very much into lolis, so I'm ok with the edits. I actually prefer most of the edits. Some of the eyes look a little weird but it's no big deal to me.

I guess it's a good sign that they are acknowledging the situation. Let's hope those fixes are as good as they need to be.
As Armeris said, we'll have to wait until we can actually see what happens.

Anyways, if they're facing problems with deadlines, then I don't understand why they force themselves to release new games before being able to properly handle issues with the games they already had. Of course I don't know about the contractual conditions they agreed with the japanese side of the business (maybe there is the big problem), but I think that at this point, they should already know how much workload their team can handle.
Simply put, with Osawari they're being overwhelmed with the total amount of stuff they have to handle now, thus getting current results.

As I said before, I'm ok with content being edited, if that allows these games to be available here (and avoiding legal issues), but edition requires careful attention.