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NEWS: Omega Labyrinth Life Game's 1st Promo Video Streamed

I appreciate the way it takes the piss out of Sony at the end.

I took it as more of a jab at westerners since they used stock photos of foreigners rather than Japanese people. Although I guess that could still apply to Sony too these days.

I think it was mainly about Sony. The Japanese game developers that make ecchi games for the PS4 get interrogated by people in another country, in a different language, and it is done in the middle of the night. If they fail the interrogation they are given no explanation and their game gets banned. The Japanese game developers will usually stay quiet for economic reasons but it must be aggravating.

I notice that the scene at the end of the trailer shows families with kids playing Labyrinth Life which is a good jab at the excuse that Sony gave for why they are censoring games. It is a nice example of parody since everyone knows that the new censorship regulations had nothing to do with children.

Which I find bizarre given certain culture norms that are ingrained in Japanese people who are often times discouraged from publicly speaking out or expressing themselves in a certain way.

With that being the case then why even snark about it, if technically it's wrong.

Considering what is going on in the western world I would say that statement about Japan is debatable.

It is hard to imagine a major game developer in the western world releasing a trailer for an ecchi game that mocks game censorship in 2019. In the western world if that happened the publisher would force the game developer to fire everyone involved,

those people would than get smeared by game journalists, and their social media accounts would get mass reported until they were deplatformed.

The entire trailer is humorous but that last scene was one of the best examples of parody I have seen this month. The idea that an M rated game needs to be censored to protect the children is hilarious because it is obviously wrong.