My boy Hector once axed 40 guys in a single day; do you really think he's going to be shy about me touching his face?
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/41935/episode-463-feel-the-magic-user
Radio Free Nintendo is a little bit abbreviated this week; due to some schedule conflicts, Jon, Gui, Greg, and James set the relatively restrained goal of producing a Listener Mail-only episode. Of course, this means the single-segment show turns into one of the longest Listener Mail segments in years. Topics covered include: picking RPGs on the 3DS for a fan of Western RPGs, a "touch" of censorship in Nintendo's localization efforts, the difficulty of making a new maker, and Nintendo's recent messaging strategies. You can question our messaging strategy via our mailbag.
It's last call for our next Retroactive; we will be talking about Viewtiful Joe next week. Comments can be placed in the discussion thread or sent via the mailbag. We've got some great comments for our Xenoblade Chronicles X spoilercast, so keep them coming.
Nintendo localization team really is in a damn if you do and damn if you don't here.
Yeah I mean it’s well known that Japan has something (lots) that wouldn’t fly in the west. Honestly the silly thing here is that we all love to death games from our childhood and those were probably even more heavily concord for the west or just by a stricter Nintendo at the time.Nintendo localization team really is in a damn if you do and damn if you don't here.
The "purity" pushers would argue that if the content was localized intact, the most probable outcome is that it would reach its intended audience with no fuss. That is something that I can at least partially agree with as a consumer.
However, Nintendo and its subsidiaries are a business, and I understand and respect that they have to be sensitive to the real possibilities of improbable and terrible things happening due to their products and services. Due to the exceptionally child-friendly image Nintendo cultivates combined with the wildly differing cultures in the markets they operate in, it's just a realty that Nintendo would be more sensitive with how their wares present themselves.