There has been a lot of speculation and rumours on which parts of the S-relationship or ‘skinship’ mode are still available in the Westernised version of Fire Emblem Fates, and Nintendo Life tasked one of their reviewers to clear things up.
Firstly, there is no ‘petting’ involved in non-S relationships and the dynamics of the ‘private quarters’ mode is entirely different in this situation, you can invite a non-S relationship to the private quarters and you will get a ‘point of view’ close up, but the attendee will say a canned line about friendship.
Typically, you can select Invite Ally into your Private Quarters with the hopes of boosting your relationship. What then happens is you get a POV (point of view) close-up of the invitee and they say some canned line about friendship. There is no ‘petting’ involved in non-S relationships.
In an S-relationship, there is a new ‘private quarters’ mode named ‘bond’. In this mode there will be a heart meter to show how many times you have bonded with them. You can only bond with them every so often, and there’s a day and night cycle. Every so often on the heart meter it will trigger an event, and the only event the reviewer had encountered was an event where the S-relationship fell asleep, and he was able to prod them awake via the touchscreen.
The reviewers conclusion was that in the Japanese version you can invite anyone to your quarters and get to the hands-on part of the relationship, whereas in the Western version you can only do this with your S-relationship.
Other triggered events are yet to be clarified, but at least this sheds some light on the localisation changes.
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
‘Every so often on the heart meter it will trigger an event, and the only event the reviewer had encountered was an event where the S-relationship fell asleep, and he was able to prod them awake via the touchscreen.
The reviewers conclusion was that in the Japanese version you can invite anyone to your quarters and get to the hands-on part of the relationship, whereas in the Western version you can only do this with your S-relationship.’
Because touching them to wake them up is exactly like rubbing their face for a good minute to boost your relationship with whatever character.
Yeah, sure, still not buying the western release
LMFAO! Racist coon?
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Remember that we used to be at war with Japan? :/
Oh, no. You can’t pet people in a _strategy rpg_. How ever will you survive?
Missing the point.
No, I don’t think they are. Its a strategy game. If you want a dating sim look for something else. They took out the part that included tapping the bottom screen. The actual noises and pictures are still in the game. And that part of the game has absolutely nothing to do with the story. If touching the screen is such a big deal just do it. And I don’t say this to be mean but I just really don’t see the big deal.
I’m not trying to be mean here either, but I don’t understand how people can just not care about or even condone the censorship these localized games are being subjected to. They are removing and changing content that the developers worked on and included. Whether or not you feel it belongs there is completely irrelevant. How you feel about it doesn’t apply to anyone else but you. It’s their game, they made it, they can put whatever they want in it. If the developer later decided it was a crappy feature that had no place and cut it before release, then fine, but for localizers to censor it out of fear that it might offend a certain demographic or make things less accessible by not pandering to a bunch of pansies who’d be offended over such a trivial thing, is the real problem. Especially when these games are rated T and up. They’re treating their older fans like children who need to be coddled and can only be allowed to see what they want them to see.
Personally, I didn’t even know this feature existed until it was announced that the game was being censored. It goes without saying I don’t particularly care about the feature in question. That said, I’m not short sighted enough to think that just because I don’t care about this particular feature that I won’t care about anything they arbitrarily feel like censoring in the future. I’ve seen enough censorship in video games, and other media, to know how bad it can get, especially when people just lay back and take it or even go so far as to justify it.
Also, like it or not, FE is selling better as a result of focusing far more on the relationships, fanservice, and dating sim elements. It will appeal to the people who like that sort of thing and bring in that audience regardless of how fans of the previous games feel. Censored features you personally don’t agree with won’t change that.
I think we’re just going to have to agree to disagree because I don’t see the point of complaining about changing that feature. They have the pictures in the game and they have voice acting while they’re up too. I just don’t see the point of tapping the screen or feel the excitement about that. I think the localization has been fine, but like you said “Whether or not you feel it belongs there is completely irrelevant. How you feel about it doesn’t apply to anyone else but you.”
It’s not just about this feature. That’s the point. It’s about what’s happening now and what will continue to happen in the future. You might not care about it in this game, but it could just as easily affect you next time. My post was meant to encompass the censorship issue surrounding NoA as a whole.
You misunderstood what I meant by the part you quoted as well. What I’m talking about has nothing to do with the feature itself. If I said I wanted it purely because I liked the feature and it should be included solely for that reason, and could care less about censorship, then it would apply to me. It’s not about whether or not you feel like it should or shouldn’t be there. The creators themselves worked on and included it. That’s all that should matter.
Again we’ll have to agree to disagree. I don’t think a game should be censored but the game comes down to story for me and I know fire emblem games have really good stories. they could go old school without any features I would still love the game because the story and characters are what makes a fire emblem game for me. If it was censorship in the story then yeah that’s just stupid, but if that’s the case then I don’t want to know what it is until after I beat it because I’ve tried so hard at avoiding spoilers
I get where you’re coming from bro, but you’re still missing the point. It’s funny though, because you’re not actually disagreeing with me. You still seem to think I’m arguing solely for the sake of this feature you have no interest in for this game, yet at the same time you’re saying a game shouldn’t be censored, which is all I’m really trying to get across.
Sadly, it’s already been confirmed that the dialogue and certain details about the characters have been censored/altered during localization. Probably not enough to matter much from your viewpoint about the story, but it is happening on that level as well. Considering FE is including far more sexually suggestive characters, I’m amazed Camilla hasn’t been confirmed to be neutered in any way that I know of. Given the state of things though, characters or plotlines featuring more mature elements could just as easily be censored and altered in the future.
So this is like x
Soooo…basically….the original gameplay was ‘invite characters to your private quarters to molest them, lovingly, to improve your friendship’?
That is so friggin weird.
…and I kind of want to do it. ;)
Will wait for some good in depth video reviews to help me decide on this one. I liked Awakenings, but all the yammering back and fourth on this one has me leery.
Same. I was looking to buy both for the “Final Story” at the end; one digital and one physical. But with all of this shtick happening (potentially for sales but not like a celeb’s extent to getting “noticed”), I might be better holding my money tightly and waiting.
I think this explanation really highlights how localization can change not just mechanics but the overall feel of a game. Sometimes what’s normal in one region gets heavily adjusted in another, which can lead to a lot of confusion or debate among fans. I’ve noticed similar discussions in other communities too, and even in broader online spaces like crush on ai web, where people often compare how digital experiences are shaped differently depending on context and audience.