EA Japan Exec Criticises Rating Board for Apparent Stellar Blade Special Treatment
"What’s going on CERO?".
Just yesterday, we brought you word that the upcoming PS5 exclusive, Stellar Blade, would be released in all regions entirely uncensored, including Japan, which developer ShiftUp seemed especially pleased with. An executive at Electronic Arts Japan has called out what they see as a double standard with the Japanese Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO), stating that "I find this hard to accept."
In a post on Twitter, EA Japan general manager Shaun Noguchi addressed the rating board in a refreshingly frank fashion, outraged that Dead Space would be refused classification for depicting "cross-sections of severed body parts", amongst other things, while Stellar Blade gets off scot-free. Noguchi declared, translated by Automaton (thanks, IGN):
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