It may or may not be allowed, but it’s mainly self censorship by companies to avoid controversy with the audience, not the government.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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But it's always framed as the ministry of censorship imposing a set of strict wierd rules
So besides all the culture war nonsense, is the game actually good?
Yeah if you like souls games it's genuinely very good.
My primary criticism of it is that the world is gorgeous which makes you want to try and explore it but it is also riddled with invisible walls preventing that.
The combat is tight and the aesthetic stuff like the soundtrack and art design is genuinely great and unique but dont expect it to like blow your mind
My main gripe with it is the level design where its somehow both linear and really confusing at the same time
the US government is triggered by tall buildings and Tentacruels
Those are actually calcified floral arrangements
They only take the most pristine skeletons from fulan dafa members, trust me bro.
Theres skeleton enemies in the first level too
I thought skeleton's were censored in China in the same way and for the same reasons that gore is censored in the west?
ah! so scary
I think the problem is with skulls in particular?
Here's a pretty iconic item, original art and the art in the Chinese version:
Nope it's completely false.
Age of Wushu:
I'm not that far into Wukong yet but there's a "Baigujing" Skeleton Spirit in the Journey to the West novel that might make an appearance later depending on what they've drawn on.
It's literally another anti China myth generated by western developers being over cautious about Chinese regulators in the changes they make for their China localisations.
Oh wow, would you look at that. Big 
for all the devs that perpetuate this nonsense.
8c HH now thats value
Speaking of anti-China myths about censorship, does anyone have any information on that meme that China can't show blood so all blood is coloured white? I see it constantly in memes to mock Chinese people, and would love to shove some proof into people's faces if it's not true
There is literally a scene in which you fight a boss in an arena filled knee deep with blood. Has to also be a myth.
Why isn’t Winnie the Pooh in this game???!? Must be see see pee censorship.
i remember a pubg clone battle royale game circa 2018 that was also somehow a licensed terminator game, and probably existed only in china. upon death, a player just turned into some kind of blue crystal instead of a body, because everyone was a robot or matrix type program or something and no real people were harmed in-game.
it was like the biggest games in WangKas at the time and my still western-oriented brain thought the "no corpses" thing was some censorship thing but now idk
the gobbliusm leaving my body when i see a skellington 
Is that the Egypt level or the Mexico level?
Looks like China is finally finished.