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Dragon Quest III HD-2D and the pitfalls of producing content in a polarized world

Oct 08, 2024

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On the left, the original. On the right, the “censored” version. Spot the difference?

It was an otherwise unremarkable podcast, streamed live from the Tokyo Game Show on YouTube last week. At one point, two veterans of the Japanese fantasy-industrial complex groused about changes made to a famed role-playing game that was getting an updated re-release fo…

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