Samurai Warriors 3 is coming Stateside very soon, but not in its original form. In a move that could be considered even more outrageous than the famous Yakuza 3 edits, it has been discovered that Nintendo of America edited out a bit of cleavage on the game's box art! CENSORSHIP!
Seriously, this is perhaps the most pointless and ludicrous edit I've ever seen. The European box art shows some significant cleavage on one of the characters, while the North American version features ... a little bit less cleavage. You still see cleavage, but just a bit less.
And this achieves ... what, exactly?
Censorship is often absurd anyway, but when you're covering up a couple of inches of tit-crack for no conceivable reason whatsoever, I think it truly puts the silliness of the issue under a microscope. So yeah, you see a bit less buster flesh on North American cover of Samurai Warriors 3. Thus the innocence of children around the world has been rescued!
Nintendo's samurai worriers strike again [Aussie Nintendo]
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7:00 PM on 09.22.2010 | 
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RAGEOUS.
This is the most ludicrous instance of censorship not only since the Yakuza 3 edits but the most ludicrous instance of censorship EVER.
You make a good point
Otherwise, there's nothing to rally tussle about. It's not like this game is the only one purveying any amount of sex. Not that it matters how much cleavage there is, cause imaginations do weird stuff.
Hell naw, speak for yourself.
That's just how I roll.
OK, so they pulled up her dress a little, that just means they traded cleavage for more leg. I like more leg. This is a problem?
You forget that parents aren't the only angry people in America. Feminists are, too.
Really? It's an unrealistic outfit for combat? Gee, I'm glad someone pointed this out so the team can fix that in this otherwise completely 100% realistic game with no element of fantasy what-so-ever.
Jesus.
Such as.... Megaman or Heavy rain
Games have radically different box art for different regions all the time, but now that it's a tiny change in a sexualized area, we should start getting up in arms about censorship? Count me out.
Why are you on Destructoid and expecting every post to be news? Really?
Ok but this is scrapping the barrel. And there is already no bottom to it.
LOL
Seriously. Someone was paid to do this.. probably the same person that makes Kirby look angry for Americans.
Its, not censorship, its marketing. No one is making them do this.
With Wii titles sales in the shitter, I applaud Koei for doing what they can to help little Jimmie's mom buy the right games, right games like Samurai Warriors. If more money was spent by Sega and EA marketing their hardcore games to someone other than the hardcore fans press, then maybe the damn games would sell.
If Resident Evil lightgun shooters sell, why can't EA put a little more muscle into selling Dead Space Extraction.
As it is, when you compete for shelf-space with the likes of All Star Cheerleader, M&M's Kart Racing, and Ninja Bread Man, any effort the publishers put out is good effort.