In my playing of Shiny Days I’m in fact using the Censored official JAST USA release. I’m not good with Torrents and stuff like that so haven’t tried to apply it yet, and since I’m not myself into what was Censored out I probably won’t bother.
I read this article about how Censorship isn’t great but JAST had no choice due to the law in countries like Canada.
But I’m posting this not to comment on the IF of the Censorship here but the execution.
In my view if you have to Censor Shiny Days there are two ways to do it but JAST instead used an in-between route. Having it still possible for Makoto’s assault of Kokoro to happen however censored, but removing the endings dependent on that, simply takes away the consequences.
Even the nominally "Good" Kokoro endings have an absurdist quality to them. But even if they wanted to keep only Reign of Carnage I would have considered that better. But more then that the Gift from my Father Ending or the Paris for Two variant dependent on apologizing to Kokoro would still be endings that acknowledged this happened and was bad.
The additional Explicit Kokoro Content would be just as easy to edit around as that initial beach scene. Especially considering the existing Censored version still has you stare at Kokoro’s Panties for a minute.
As far the option of removing the assault of Kokoro entirely goes, I guess the only question is what’s then the consequence for not getting the Setsuna Meter high enough during the first act of episode 4? I’d just lock the player onto one of those premature non endings which is functionally what happens in the existing censored version anyway.
And if you think it’d be weird to include so much Kokoro set up with no follow through, I’d say just look at Yamagta.
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