I heavily disagree with the use of the word need here. It absolutely does not need to be changed because some people might be offended. Just because this happens as part of localization doesn't mean it's necessary or even should be happening. The easily offended really just need to learn their feelings are not the most important thing in the world.
Ehhhhh, idk. I don't like censorship either but if you're a business than you probably want to avoid controversy. That's why Nintendo hasn't released Mother 3 in the West.
I don't fully disagree with you but I don't agree with you either but I feel like my opinions on all of this are outside the scope of the thread topic so I'm just going to leave it.
No, mother 3 hasn't been released in the west because of copyrighted stuff that can't be removed easily, at least that's what the creator of it claimed.
And I don't disagree with you either but I think you're narrowing in on specific words and assuming that I'm saying something else. Especially the last part of the post should make it clear I wasn't advocating for any of that.
Sure that's one reason, but NoA also has its own policies and the game would need some heavy changes that would also not be easy due to the characters in question being crucial to the story of the game. Even if the copyrighted stuff wasn't an issue, NoA knows that America has two main groups and that both groups would be offended by the game and hurt their brand image. The game was always destined to stay in the import pile.
Except it doesn't, it's got 2 small, heavily minded political groups, and 1 large group in the middle that literally doesn't care about politics unless people start insulting them for watching it or someone ruins it, same thing happened with the "satanic panic" of the 70's and 80's, the "video game violence" bs of the 90's and early 2000's, and now we have the current situation that's based on identity politics.
The magipsies would have been a problem in 2006. They would still be a problem today but for different reasons. They would have to censor them, but that would also change the story.
Can't comment as i haven't played enough of mother 3 for that one, but tingle's game was probably left out because the fanbase at the time in north america was well known to DESPISE tingle with a passion, not for his "querks", but his overall character, including his greed, it was bad enough that had it come to america it would have effected sales.