It wasn't China's demand to censor the game, but rather Sony's with their, at that time, new censorship policies.

By the way, Idea Factory released a novel in English that tells the events that happen in the 5 years before the start of Mary Skelter 2:
http://ideafintl.com/images/MS2_Novel.pdf

Maybe it'd be interesting to add it as a goodie in the game here?

Soooo, can we get something featuring characters of properly adult proportions instead of a bunch of "I can't believe it's not Loli!" games?

It's much like the problem of the modern pug, (image attached) where pandering to an insane subset of people has lead to a terrible thing on both ends. One of them is a brachycephalic creature that struggles to breathe and is a geneticists worst nightmare, the other has had detail and proportion continually buffed away as to only pander to the hardened otaku.

really???? :O NICE! now I'm more enticed to get the first one and play it since the second is confirmed to come here!

Now the question is will we ever get a pc port of Mary Skelter: Finale? I know its only on Switch and PS4 :(

We deffintly want correct proportion of picassos cubism art
it sacrilege indded to dare play with art or even make art that some say is pandering to insane subset to people that leads to something even though it has been proven that you cant convert people
otherwise rapist , phedophiles had converted alot of crimminals and been sung as heroes insrttead of beaten and bullied in prisons.

I imagine it'll take a while for it to get released on PC, if it does, since Mary Skelter 2 was originally released in 2018 and only now it's been announced for PC (and I also imagine they would want to milk the consoles' higher default price and the false security of no piracy as much as they can).

That's a neat trailer. Was wondering if 2 would ever end up here. Glad it is! Wishlisted

I'm going to be cautiously optimistic regarding whether it is censored. The only english language release was on Switch, and uncensored, largely due to IFI's 'minimal censorship or no' policy which led to them skipping PS4 after having to censor some artwork in other titles at Sony's insistence.

It makes sense that Ghostlight woud just port the existing english language version rather than needing to port a broken version, fix it, do the work of inserting the language, testing it as well, etc etc.

One surprising thing is the GOG version doesn't have achievements listed, which the Steam version does. I thought we'd gotten past the point of version inequity in that regard.

IFI doesn't have any policy like that.

On the contrary: IFI has censored many things to appease Sony, like Death end Re;Quest 2, and Dragon Star Varnir.

In addition, the only reason why Mary Skelter: Finale was released on PS4 was because IFI had the devs self-censor and tone down the game as compared to its previous entries, in order to appease Sony's censorship "standards."

In other words, as well as committing explicit acts of censorship of already-made content at Sony's request, IFI is also now telling their devs to draw the artwork for their newer games in a way that will conform to Sony's censorship "standards" before Sony censors it...hence Sony's censorship regime is wrecking these games to much a larger extent than is usually recognized.

Although maybe it's not just Sony that IFI is trying to appease with their censorship-abiding ways, but rather, other Puritan type entities as well.

In any case, the point remains that for the most part, IFI disgracefully is a willing and cooperative partner when it comes to censoring its own products.

Great to hear this. I am really glad that IF obviously has GOG in focus right now :)

At the start, they falsely claimed they wouldn't localize games that would need any kind of censorship. But seeing as all their games are of a risky nature, they have backpedaled on that and now just butcher their games whenever it is required of them.

ngl kinda like the soundtrack...btw its suppose to be not scary right?

Depends on what you consider "scary". It's mostly psychological horror with disturbing and oppressing/claustrophobical environments.
If you (or the person who mentioned the game isn't scary) only finds jump scares scary, then indeed, the game won't feel scary.

https://twitter.com/ghostlightgames/status/1478376182882177028 edit: removed unneeded noise from the quote

That sucks, at least we know. I wonder if it will be possible for it to be patched in.