I just lately determined to play an outstanding outdated sport referred to as Metallic Gear Strong through the just lately launched Metallic Gear Strong Grasp Assortment, hoping to point out my associates the scene the place I might see a person’s naked ass after he will get his lights knocked out and his garments stolen. However censorship has struck once more as I got here to search out this important a part of my childhood robbed from me through a pair of digital boxer shorts.
Disgrace, Konami. Disgrace.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the sport, or this scene, enable me to elucidate. Shortly after protagonist Strong Snake makes an attempt to free an NPC from a cell, the prisoner subsequent to him (Meryl) breaks out, incapacitates a guard named Johnny and steals his garments. He’s left bare on the ground along with his ass pointed towards the ceiling, a pixely impact displayed over his bare ass. Or such was the case in my North American copy of the sport within the late ‘90s.
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After a tense shootout with some guards, you possibly can truly defy censorship in a daring act of freedom by crawling as much as Johnny’s ass, taking out your binoculars, and zooming previous the censorship bar, revealing crack and all in wonderful 1998 graphical constancy.
However within the 2023 reissued variations discovered within the Grasp Assortment, Konami has caved to fashionable, Western calls for for modesty and censored this scene by clothes Johnny in a pair of boxers that, irrespective of how exhausting I strive, or nonetheless many angles I strive to have a look at, for nonetheless many hours I stare at this digital ass, I can’t zoom previous.
This isn’t nearly expression both. This censorship cuts into the very lore of Metallic Gear Strong, which I maintain sacred and might lecture you about for hours at a time. For 25 years I’ve puzzled why Meryl stole Johnny’s underwear along with his uniform. Or did Johnny select to not put on underwear in any respect an odd selection particularly contemplating his very unpredictable bowel actions.
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Konami added little else to this assortment. No correct body charge or decision choices above 1080p, no clear method to repair the horrendous display screen tearing on PC. No mouse and keyboard assist. Only a port of some outdated copies of the sport slapped along with a low-effort menu system that requires a number of executables on PC to launch, and offers me frequent audio issues when I attempt to stream.
And don’t inform me that I ought to be pleased with the content material simply because I can nonetheless climb out and in of the ladder a number of instances within the cell to unlock a scene with Meryl doing situps in her underwear, or that I can comply with her rapidly into the lavatory to talk along with her in her underwear, or that Sniper Wolf nonetheless has her shirt open all the best way right down to her navel.
If Konami and others have its manner, I’ll quickly be with none bare online game characters. How can we stand for such a factor?
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