Idk about stellar blade’s content, but CERO is notoriously really touchy with more “macabre” gore (e.g severed body parts, especially heads, bones sticking out, that kind of thing). I suppose stellar blade just has more “acceptable” gore by CERO standards.
Source: I have worked on the Japanese internationalization for 2 Warhammer 40k games. We didn’t have to remove that much gore, but there’s some specific stuff they will just not budge on.
The offenders were mostly some of our “generic chaos stuff” (containing, amongst other things, “clean” skulls, “not that clean” skulls, and a sprinkle of gore) and guardsmen or other humans models in various states of dismember and/or decay iirc.
Kinda surprised, Nurgle can be pretty fucken grim. Guess thats why some consider it kinda arbitrary, probably a cultural barrier in there meaning a lot of westerners see it as arbitrary. Probably makes some sense on an internal level.
The guidelines we had were mostly about bones iirc, especially if they still had some “meat” on them. I don’t remember anything about organs specifically
Actually I remember that one of our unofficial internal guidelines was basically “if resident evil or DMC does it, we should be good”. And both of these feature some gore but are usually very light on stuff like bones, (humanoid) decapitations, etc. Again, I assume stellar blade follows similar guidelines as these games regarding this stuff, because Sony (their publisher) obviously knows CERO pretty well
Idk about stellar blade’s content, but CERO is notoriously really touchy with more “macabre” gore (e.g severed body parts, especially heads, bones sticking out, that kind of thing). I suppose stellar blade just has more “acceptable” gore by CERO standards.
Source: I have worked on the Japanese internationalization for 2 Warhammer 40k games. We didn’t have to remove that much gore, but there’s some specific stuff they will just not budge on.
Let me guess Nurgle, Dark Eldar, and some random imperium shit?
The offenders were mostly some of our “generic chaos stuff” (containing, amongst other things, “clean” skulls, “not that clean” skulls, and a sprinkle of gore) and guardsmen or other humans models in various states of dismember and/or decay iirc.
Kinda surprised, Nurgle can be pretty fucken grim. Guess thats why some consider it kinda arbitrary, probably a cultural barrier in there meaning a lot of westerners see it as arbitrary. Probably makes some sense on an internal level.
The article does explicitly state that Stellar Blade features both dismemberment and cuts showing cross-sections of internal organs.
The guidelines we had were mostly about bones iirc, especially if they still had some “meat” on them. I don’t remember anything about organs specifically
Actually I remember that one of our unofficial internal guidelines was basically “if resident evil or DMC does it, we should be good”. And both of these feature some gore but are usually very light on stuff like bones, (humanoid) decapitations, etc. Again, I assume stellar blade follows similar guidelines as these games regarding this stuff, because Sony (their publisher) obviously knows CERO pretty well