Another example from the same update. They defended these changes as being "improvements to the animation" rather than censorship, despite that the new animation frames made the characters' skirts artificially extend and no longer hang down naturally. It's always disingenuous.

Here are some comparisons of the new censorship. Don't worry, they didn't just censor the girls, they also censored some guys and tried to cover up the scene of police brutality against a black guy.

Remember: Dozens of manually drawn frames of animation being reworked = fixing a bug

@zakogdo

@TheMulletBird Now defend them doing the same thing to Cerebella, who is 18. Also, consider that these are drawings of fictional characters with magical powers from a video game and not real people who need protection from real danger. Kind of the more important point.

@zakogdo Seriously, why don't you just play Strip Fighter? Or just watch porn? This is not worth expending calories caring about.

@PricePartDeux Do you think Skullgirls was a porn game before it was censored? Of course not, right? So why would you make this obviously false equivalence?

@zakogdo Why should fighting game players care about anything that has nothing to do with the fighting?

@fabianoyaga2 Because aesthetics are an integral part of any video game and it's ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Take the aesthetics away from Skullgirls and the image on the left now looks like the image on the right. If you say you'd happily play the game on the right, you are a liar.

@zakogdo To be fair, that's more understandable because tey wanted to actually be shown on a big stage at some point. Changing single-player content, however, rubs me the wrong way.

@T1GlistenerElf It could always have been optional. Hell, even Dead or Alive 6 made the FGC core values-friendly mode an option instead of forced on all the time. But they didn't do that. It should be obvious why.

@zakogdo This isn't censorship. This was THEIR decision to make not some third party that forced them to make the change

@Excalibur2343 They are a third party, given that the original artwork here was made by the original creative director who is no longer with them. And even if he was, it would still be censorship, by definition.

@zakogdo Crazy how people didn’t notice these changes when they happened 7 years ago. It’s almost as if they are inconsequential and don’t affect the quality of the game.

@N0t_My_Birthday That comparison is 8 years old bro.

@zakogdo Let's be real if Beowulf had his cock bulge real pronounced and they toned it down you would not be this upset about "censorship" This takes nothing away from the game experience you're just a weirdo using a thinly veiled defensive tactic to hide it

@GrizzcoSlosher The irony here is that they also censored Beowulf and I did complain about that. But expecting Twitter users to read beyond the first post in a chain is apparently very unrealistic.

@zakogdo I don’t play fighting games to jack off so I’m fine with this personally

@zakogdo An improvement if you ask me

@zakogdo @iuntue It's not that minor censorship destroys series. It's that the process of destroying series includes things like this.