Jowin Okere of TheKoalition.com writes: Recently, Atlus has announced that their recently released game, Catherine, will be making it’s way to North America this summer. This is good news, because I was a little worried that the game wouldn’t be seen as adaptable to United States culture because of the highly sexual themes. In fact, there are countless games that haven’t made their way to the US because of this reason. Why is there such a stigma attached to overtly sexual video games? I decided to give my opinion on sex in foreign video games and why there are problems attached to bringing these games to the United States, check out my video editorial below:
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But is the stigma there becuase it's a highly sexual game or because it's a highly sexual JAPANESE game? Maybe I'm wrong about this, but games like Catherine have this particular 'Japanese feel' to them that only appeals to a niche Western audience. It's a game that has obviously been aimed primarily at a Japanese audience.
Devs and publishers probably think such games won't sell too well in the West and, as a result, they don't release them over here. Catherine's the exception.
Sex in video games aren't bad when it ties into the story properly. Catherine looks great. But games like "rape lay" shouldn't be made at all.
Catherine's saving grace is that it will be under the radar and wrongfully deemed as weaboo crap by most ... so it probably wont meet the scorn "We dare " is getting right now .
Hell look at the comments we usually gets , even regular videogame news readers from the site can sometimes not see anything else in the game , so yeh again i thinkl its safe .
It's high time for our dearest americans to get over this thing. It's not a big deal, c'mon guys.
I know you can do it.
What's the big deal about erotic content on games?
We have dudes smokin crack on GTA4. And I think it's cool, don't get me wrong, lol.
That's the world we live in.
It was just a few days ago, Charlie Sheen apppeared on TV saying he smoked 7 rocks/day and throw orgies sprinkled in cocain is his mansion or something.
C'monnnn.
There should be a videogame about Charlie Sheen's life just to see how that works, lol.
We already have copious amounts of sexin' going on in videogames. It's not the focus in Catherine from what I've seen and what WAS shown was cleverly censored. I'd understand if it was ONLY about that and they had you involved, but it doesn't look that way. Have you seen the gameplay trailer? The brutal gore? The disturbing monsters? No? Well, you should probably check it out.
I wouldn't know for sure, anyway. The game isn't here yet and I don't do imports.