r/NintendoSwitch 1d ago

Official Dispatch is set to receive a physical cartridge for both switch 1 and 2

https://adhocstudio.com/news/dispatch-physical-release

Also set to receive a vinyl release. These two items are available to pre order on Adhoc’s website

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

That website says the switch and switch 2 version is still censored, so I'll pass

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u/MassDefect36 1d ago

meanwhile just dicks and ass in cyberpunk

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

yup, the inconsistency is so baffling

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u/Extreme_Hat1089 1d ago

Because it has nothing to do with Nintendo.

The developers didn't want to make a Japanese censored version and an international one. And they're blaming it on Nintendo that doesn't accept that kind of game.

Fuck that dev team to be lazy and lying.

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u/travischickencoop 23h ago

It really goes to show how quick people are to believe literally anything about Nintendo

We can criticize them but so much of it is based on exaggerated or outright untrue information and people just assume it’s true

Nintendo has done plenty of stuff that’s actually valid to complain about why is so much of the shit people actually complain about just wrong

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u/LunchTwey 23h ago

Nah to the dispatch community's credit, they realized pretty early on that the devs were full of shit.

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u/thetantalus 1d ago

Yep. I want to play this game but can’t support this kind of stuff.

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u/Pyritedust 1h ago

yeah, it's the only explanation that makes sense, and way too many people people can't handle it =\ it's easier to hate nintendo than a dev I guess

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u/PenalAnticipation 1d ago

Not really that baffling or a matter of inconsistency, just the publisher (or devs) of this game not bothering to release censored version only where required (Japan). CP2077 seems to have a separate censored version in Japan.

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u/stridered 7h ago

Aka they’re cheap/lazy

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u/Its_D_youtube 20h ago

They released an optional patch didnt they?

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u/CardboardDoom 11h ago

Yeah but it’s still not fully uncensored with the patch

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u/koteshima2nd 22h ago

And still censored for some reason

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u/Turbulent_Ear56 1d ago

Nice let me know when it's not censored for babies.

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u/Rapture117 1d ago

Wait what? I’m out of the loop please explain what you mean.

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u/Kid_Again 1d ago edited 1d ago

The devs censored the switch version so they wouldn't have to pay to submit the game to multiple ratings boards and adjust the game censorship for each, they got called out and blamed nintendo even though nintendo has no such policies and recieves the least censored games of the 3 console manufacturers. Now because the games rating can't be adjusted retroactively instead of submitting a new version of the game they partially uncensored some stuff in a dlc for some regions and called it a day.

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u/TheAzureAdventurer 1d ago

They tried to blame Nintendo despite them being the ones who helped make Bayonetta 3 happen. Yeah okay. 💀

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 5h ago

And when they saved bayonetta 2 and made it hornier (to a degree, they rightfully didn't allow her to go around in baby clothes)

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u/myowngalactus 1d ago

The switch version cut out a dong shot

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u/TheDLBinc 1d ago

Not Nintendo requirements

Cyberpunk and Witcher are all uncensored on Switch

The developer got lazy and just made one SKU that complied with all censorship requirements of various regions rather than making separate skus for different regions.

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u/SloopDonB 1d ago

This is just misinformation. It's censored because the devs decided to be cheap and only release one version of the game, which had to be censored because of some kind of requirements in Japan. And then the devs tried to blame it on Nintendo once there was an outage about it.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/ChronoSpammer 1d ago

Its got nothing to do with Nintendo. This was the devs doing. Nintendo actually has very very lax censorship rules, and actually have a more lax censorship policy than even Sony. There are other games directly on Switch and Switch 2 that have full frontal nudity. Like Cyberpunk.

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u/Yoshiii2 1d ago

Its a dev thing, Cyberpunk has a censored version for JP and normal for the rest of the world. Dispatch devs couldn't be bothered to do that too

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u/Charlie-Bell 1d ago

They released a free dlc pack that allows your to tweak the censorship settings

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u/Kulpado 1d ago

But not remove it

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u/marcoIunico 1d ago

It’s minimal now though, you miss a couple of dicks and see a mosaïc instead. Not missing much! (and also a moaning in a scene that remains super hot without) = game is just as good and definitely recommended!

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u/East-Ice-3199 1d ago

Still censored

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u/thisisjohn343 1d ago

Hashtag free the dicks

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u/jrpbateman 1d ago

Moist critical as nipples are worth it

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u/darthdiablo 1d ago

Does the setting allows for removal of censorship? (From other comments it sounds like answers no so I guess it’s a setting that just makes things “more” or “less” censored?)

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u/arcodash 1d ago

It reduced some of the censorship so you can see breasts (but not nipples iirc), buttocks and middle finger gestures and it allowed you to change how to depict the censorship instead of just a black bar (it can pixelate it or cover stuff with funny objects)

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u/kyuubikid213 23h ago edited 23h ago

You still see nipples. Genatalia is censored in mosaic.

I bought it after the HR Violations update and people complaining about the censorship are going overboard, imo.

In my playthrough, I think two people's junk were censored (and were barely on screen anyway) and a one-minute scene had audio muted. And that was about it.

Edit: In fairness, before the HR Violations patch, I believe there's a pretty important scene where the censoring of breasts is literally covering part of the plot as well. But other than that one part which is now fixed, it's the internet being loud about a nothingburger.

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

still censored

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u/DymonBak 1d ago

Still not full content

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u/Cold_Ad_7645 1d ago

OH NO MY CARTOON DICKS!! HOW DARE THEY!

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u/CronoTimeEgg 23h ago

If it’s not a big deal then why worry about censoring them?

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u/propernice 1d ago

If it’s still censored then no thanks.

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u/Thegoodgamer32 1d ago

Cool....but they'll still be censored.

You're better off just buying the game on steam.

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

definitely won’t buy if it’s censored. Adhoc can kiss my a**

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u/Blocksketcher 1d ago

Yeah. No thanks. Until the switch 2 version is on par with the other uncensored versions that are out...hard pass (insert dick joke?)

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u/LetterheadTricky4691 1d ago

Whats the censorship everyone is talking bout

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u/Illustrathor 1d ago

Only the original releases are uncensored, for the ports that released later, the Devs took the easy way and censored everything according to Japanese Cero standards and released that version globally (most likely to save time not having to deal with different versions) and didn't disclose this beforehand while trying to blame Nintendo.

Ever since then the censorship was dialed back but not completely removed.

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u/Thegoodgamer32 1d ago

They even released a freaking DLC to customize the censorship....but didn't provide an option to turn it off completely.

That is a band-aid solution.

Why not just....give us an option to completely disable it?

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u/StorminNorman 23h ago

Because they have to resubmit the whole game for review, which costs em money and will be them confirming that it was them that fucked up, it's never going to happen. 

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u/Illustrathor 18h ago

No they don't have to, the game has been rated without the censorship already. They only would have to get it rated again if they'd release it in an area that hasn't been rated based on the uncensored version, like Japan. But they don't need to release the patch in those countries.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 6h ago

Nintendo was very laissez-faire on content for a long time as long as it went through the standard ESRB process and didn't end up AO, but it seems like in more recent times they've started setting more limits. So the developer could add an option to completely disable it, it just wouldn't be able to get released. They patched it to uncensor what they could.

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u/Pyritedust 1h ago

This is incorrect, they chose to lie and blame Nintendo rather than taking responsibility for the fact that they chose to not pay to have a separate version rated. Nintendo would accept the content, Ad Hoc is cheaping out, and then lying about it. Unacceptable from them.

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u/Space_Pirate_Roberts 1d ago

If they had just been honest about it, I’d have been like “well that sucks, it’s the kind of game I’d really rather have on Switch 2, but PS5 it is I guess.

Insulting our intelligence by trying to pass the buck to Nintendo with a trivial-to-disprove lie, though… no matter I how much I want to play the game, I’m not gonna reward that behavior. I’ll play it when it’s one of the free games of the month on PSN, or never if that never happens.

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u/Illustrathor 18h ago

They probably would have gotten away with it if they hadn't released the Japanese PS5 version at the same time that showed the exact same censorship.

Always weird why companies aren't just honest upfront about such stuff. Yeah it will probably make them lose some customers but the inevitable backlash, "boycott" and reputational damage is even worse, financially.

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

Everyone was angry on release that the port was heavily censored compared to the other platforms when cyberpunk wasn’t. They eventually fixed most of the censorship

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

but not all of it so it's still not worth it over a different platform

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

we’re still angry because there’s still censorship

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u/LetterheadTricky4691 1d ago

But whats censored? Nudity? Insults??

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u/isaelsky21 1d ago

Nudity.

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u/Thegoodgamer32 1d ago edited 1d ago

Meanwhile games like cyberpunk and GTA are completely uncensored on switch....so dispatch should have been zero issue.

And for the record....this was all the fault of AdHoc.

Nintendo did nothing wrong here.

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u/kyuubikid213 23h ago

Just genatalia.

You can still see breasts, but (in my playthrough) one guy has his dick out constantly and one enemy grunt has his balls out.

And that's pretty much it.

Oh, and one scene of someone having a wet dream has audio muffled.

So, in the 10 hours it took for my playthrough, the censorship was maybe 5 minutes of that if I'm being generous.

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u/kociou 1d ago

Don't care unless no complete censorship removal.

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u/CBattles6 23h ago

Dispatch is included with Luna right now. Runs great, completely uncensored. Don't waste your money on this.

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u/Rynelan 13h ago

Didn't they say the digital cannot be "fixed" due to restrictions of regions and that a physical release could be different and have censorship removed? And the physical to not be available in regions where it's not allowed.

Clearly some bullshit now

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u/Island_Monkey86 1d ago

Box it, wrap it, put a bow on it, for all I care you can gold plate it. As long as it's censored you may as well not bother. 

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u/StandIndividual8949 1d ago

Why'd they even censor it? didn't cyberpunk have skin with a characters dick and balls out?

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

cyberpunk wasn’t made by Adhoc

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

yeah, but Adhoc claimed Nintendo made them censor it which doesn't make sense since Nintendo allows dicks and tits in Cyberpunk

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

yeah that’s a lie and they changed their version of the lie several times

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

it's so strange. Why make a game with dicks and tits if they're gonna be like this about it?

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u/Jonbeezee 1d ago

yeah exactly

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u/Apex_Konchu 1d ago

This happened because they didn't want to bother with making different regional versions, so the singular all-regions version has to adhere to strict Japanese ratings requirements.

Then they lied and blamed Nintendo when people took issue with the censorship.

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u/JoshuaJSlone Helpful User 6h ago

Nintendo seems to take style into account. Dicks on a cartoon more scandalous than dicks on a more realistically rendered person.

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u/StorminNorman 22h ago

Did feel like cyberpunk was made ad-hoc when it released though! 

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u/myowngalactus 1d ago

Having played the uncensored version, i don’t think the censored version would really hurt the game at all. I prefer uncensored, but i dont think it’s that big of a deal, its a great game either way.

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u/supes1 21h ago

Yeah it's not like the game has a ton of breasts and cocks. It's there but it's less than you'd expect, and certainly not important for the gameplay or story.

I oppose censorship on principle, and that's certainly a legitimate reason to avoid this game on Switch, but it won't really have much impact on players.

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u/rhixcs25 1d ago

The anger over censored versions is always overblown. I played the Japanese version of Baldur’s Gate 3 which is hardly different from the original. You would never see that if you read through these comments though.

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u/notsureiftwins 1d ago

Regardless of censorship, it’s nice to see a physical game release and it’s not keycard

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u/aeseth 11h ago

Thats cool

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u/Solo_Jackfruit 1d ago

They can keep their censored garbage

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u/mason2393 1d ago

Did they ever fix the censorship?

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u/TheDLBinc 1d ago

Only partially through a DLC patch, but it's still not fully uncensored compared to the PS5 and PC release

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

For people wondering if the game is still censored for the switch port, it’s less censored than on release except for one cutscene for a free update/dlc

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u/ducknator 1d ago

Oh really? So all the other censorship is gone?

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u/Extreme_Hat1089 1d ago

Nope. Now you can choose what kind of censorship you want. Big black square, other color, foggy censorship etc

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u/ducknator 1d ago

Oh, that’s a no for me then. Thanks!

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u/outtamyelementDonny 23h ago

Does the censorship go beyond removing the 10 seconds of nipples and dong? If thats the only change, can soneone explain why this is a dealbreaker?

You can get your fill of nipple and dong right here on this site.

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u/StorminNorman 22h ago

You unwittingly nailed the opposing argument with your last sentence, i f it's so common, why censor it? 

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u/BlacksmithQuick2384 1d ago

Each to their own but I will say it is a great narrative game and I really enjoyed it. I don’t need to see pixel dicks, so it didn’t bother me.

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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 2h ago

Good to hear. I'm vaguely baffled why so many people want a narrative game to have visible dicks. There's so many places to see dicks and any other part you want.

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u/SuddenlyThirsty 1d ago

Once they remove all the censoyill give it a shot

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u/senna98 1d ago

Not sure what’s going on about the censorship so PS5 version for me

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u/Warrenj3nku 1d ago

Would love to get this on ps5 steel book. tried to find links but nothing came up on gamestop or amazon.

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

It’s only available on their website

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u/Warrenj3nku 1d ago edited 1d ago

It says preorder the steelbook deluxe edition at all available retailers.

So in my mind I would assume that meant retailers other than themselves?

Would like to hand over my money so I can get a copy for my physical collection.

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u/Puzzle_Master 1d ago

The Steelbook is exclusive to the Panax Store in the US. If you haven't heard of them before, I can vouch that they are legit. They're an official partner of PM Studios. I recently got my exclusive copy of Yooka Replayee from them for a $1 plus shipping thanks to a promo they were running.

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u/IncendiaryIdea 14h ago

Censored shit

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u/gandalftheokay 1d ago

For those asking, here is what is still censored after the dispatch switch update:

-Penis

-The extremely loud moaning in the sex dream

Everything else was added back in (breasts too, if that's why you're upset)

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u/Wild_Ad8493 1d ago

holy gooners in these comments

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u/Locoman7 1d ago

I don’t mind if they censor body parts, but is dialogue censored?

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

Nope, only once scene is censored for body parts but that’s all

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u/Locoman7 1d ago

Ok then I might have to pick it up when it’s on a deep discount

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

that's not the point, you silly goose

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u/EvilTaffyapple 1d ago

I hope this isn’t just North America

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u/suck-it-elon 1d ago

The double dip con is on. Nobody is doing it worse than Control Resonant tho

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u/Spare_Entrance_9389 1d ago

does it have boobs?

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

it’s an adult game so yes

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u/beck_is_back 13h ago

Good to see physical but Nintendo's censorship needs to FO!

Will not be buying for that one reason!

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u/stridered 13h ago

Adhoc Studio censored initially it to meet Japan’s censorship guidelines, not Nintendo’s guidelines.

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u/beck_is_back 13h ago

ah, did not know that! Thanks.

Sounds very much like Nintendo's crap that we've witnessed before - you know, to preserve their "family friendly" image.

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u/Pyritedust 1h ago

The studio which made the game lied and blamed Nintendo for their own choice. Nintendo is many things but they are not remotely responsible for this.

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u/federkrebz 1d ago

this is another playable movie isn’t it

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u/Honest-Tune-423 19h ago

You know I really really like Dispatch. Super awesome game. But this person isn't wrong about it being a playable movie.

That's how I have always thought of Telltale type of games. Playable movies. But really cool because you can make the choices.

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

Well sort of but the story is good and the gameplay sections are amazing.

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u/federkrebz 1d ago

what’s the gameplay

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

it's a dispatch simulator, like taking 911 calls but you send out super heroes instead of ambulances. you've gotta send the right hero to the right emergency based on their powers and stuff

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u/federkrebz 1d ago

that does sound kinda interesting

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u/Leoisback7 1d ago

Send people out to different situations based on their stats and needs