Monster Monpiece is expected to launch via the PlayStation Network this spring. Our intention and motivation is to offer Idea Factory titles in a form that is as close as possible to the Japanese versions." "We fully understand that there are needs and demands for the complete version of these games. "Here is the list of Monster Girls whose images have been limited to that of their level 1, 2 or 3 evolution form due to the strong sexual nature of the card images: Vampire, Kraken, Goblin, Cockatrice, Kobold, Skeleton, Titania, Bahamut, Fia, Brownie, Pegasus, Mandragora, Mau Sibau, Rafflesia, Death Scorpion, Phantom and Tengu. "Idea Factory International strives to localize and publish Idea Factory titles with the same content as their Japanese releases," the company said. Players level up cards by rubbing the screen - which often results in removed articles of clothing - to "send magic power into the cards." According to the publisher, the decision to remove certain elements was "a tough decision," and that gameplay and storyline will remain intact. Monster Monpiece features a card-based battle system that revolves around Monster Girl cards. Publisher Idea Factory will bring Monster Monpiece, a strategic card battle game, to PlayStation Vita in North America and Europe later this year, but will cut down on the game's "strong sexual nature" by removing certain cards, the company said today. Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. What do you think about how Idea Factory is handling this? Whether or not you agree with the censorship, would you rather they replace the cards like they plan to, or put in some extra time and money to generate new artwork? Will this affect your decision to purchase Monster Monpiece? We appreciate your understanding with these rating differences. 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. We received a Mature rating for Monster Monpiece from the ESRB with the censored material we submitted. The reason for the difference in these ratings is simply the difference in the rating system between ESRB and PEGI. They also addressed the rating difference in North America, where the game is rated M by the ESRB, and Europe, where it received a 12 from PEGI. We sincerely apologize for those who do not agree with any level of censorship, but we greatly appreciate your understanding with the decision we have made. TIdTool is a plugin created to convert these files to formats like png and bmp and the likes,so I used that. tid format, which is common even among the neptunia game. So far so good, but now all the textures and card images are in the. 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 U.S., we had to make the difficult decision that we did. I managed to extract the Game.PAC files that contains the main models and textures. However, 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. This was a very difficult decision since we work very hard to satisfy our fans and want to bring the same content being offered in Japan. We would like to emphasize that the game’s playtime, the game’s system, and the game’s features are all the same as the original Japanese release, and players can level up their Monster Girls to the highest levels as well, again, matching the Japanese release. That said, each card that has had its image removed will still have the same number of levels for the player to increase, but the higher level card images will be the same as the lower level, even though they have leveled up and have become more powerful. This means that over 300 cards are left untouched from the original images. The number of censored cards is about 40 out of the approximately 350 card images available in the game. We kept the same number of cards in the game as the original Japanese version, but replaced some of the higher level Monster Girl images with the “less exposed” lower level versions of the corresponding Monster Girls due to some intense sexual imagery. These cards-meaning the “Monster Girls”-are able to be powered up by exposing themselves (taking off their clothes) via the level-up features called First Crush Rub and Extreme Love. Monster Monpiece is a card battle game, in which players summon various “Monster Girls” onto the game’s battlefields and then fight their opponents. One thing that caught everyone's notice was the fact that some of the game's cards are being replaced due to "strong sexual nature," and, as is the case with this type of thing, not everyone was happy about it.Īfter answering some questions directly, Idea Factory sent out a formal press release to address the issue of censorship in Monster Monpiece. You may have seen yesterday's news about the Vita-rubbing, card-battling action of Monster Monpiece making its way to the west this spring.
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