It’s not a Star Lake…
In an interview with4Gamer(translated byNicheGamer), members of theStar Ocean 5team spoke about Western game critics and sexuality in Japanese games — specifically, how it relates toStar Oceancharacter Miki. Evenmorespecifically, how it relates to her underwear.
“Recently, there’s been a lot of flak from overseas countries saying that if you put teens in ‘sexual’ underwear, it’s not good. So we increased the amount of clothing,” saidStar Ocean 5producer Shuichi Kobayashi. you may see theoriginal version hereand therevised version here. Gamedirector Hiroshi Ogawa jokingly referred to the change as “distressing.”
“Recently there’s been a trend in games where if you put out a character that shows a lot of skin, later on you might have to make a lot of revisions, ‘although she’s erotic, there’s not a lot of skin showing’ is the feeling you get. In fact, [Star Ocean 5] got a rating of C [ages 15 and up] by CERO,” saidcharacter designer Akira Yasuda.
Destructoidchatted with Kobayashi at E3 2015 aboutStar Ocean 5, where he spoke about his determination to get the game made. “I hope this isn’t going to sound arrogant — I thought if I couldn’t produce it, nobody else could,” Kobayashi said. “If this hadn’t come about, I wouldn’t be working for Square Enix now.”
Star Ocean 5 character gets less-sexy underwear ‘in Fear of Western Criticism’[NeoGAF]
