XYCat: The game is rated 17+ for sexual themes and partial nudity. With battle damage being depicted as clothes on them big tiddy anime girls getting ripped up. So you're here bitching that GOG put an "adult content" warning on it? It's not a game for kids.
You concern trolls really need to get a grip
TomNuke: Who said it was a game for kids? The issue people have is that GOG is marking this game the same way they would with a hentai or pornographic title, and according to your post you're admitting there's nothing like that at all in the game.
The ESRB rated this game "Mature" or 17+. That is the same rating as Cyberpunk 2077 and tons of other games here, but those have not received the scarlet lettering and an 18+ warning.
PEGI, which covers Europe, has rated all Senran Kagura games 16+, which is less than Cyberpunk 2077 which received an 18+ rating.
According to PEGI website -
PEGI 16 "This rating is applied once the depiction of violence (or sexual activity) reaches a stage that looks the same as would be expected in real life. The use of bad language in games with a PEGI 16 rating can be more extreme, while the use of tobacco, alcohol or illegal drugs can also be present." Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus "The game was rated PEGI 16 for frequent erotic partial nudity. Not appropriate for persons below 16 years of age." "In-between fighting missions, you have the option to purchase new lingerie and outfits for your player. You can then view these in the wardrobe section, from which you can zoom in on your character from all angles. Also during battles your character can end up naked with just small images of faces covering her nipples. Fighting in the game is all at the PEGI 12 level with unrealistic over exaggerated responses to the violence, which results in characters being sent high into the air when hit with bright flashes of light masking physical responses. There is also no blood, gore or injuries." PEGI 18 "The adult classification is applied when the level of violence reaches a stage where it becomes a depiction of gross violence, apparently motiveless killing, or violence towards defenceless characters. The glamorisation of the use of illegal drugs and of the simulation of gambling, and explicit sexual activity should also fall into this age category." Cyberpunk 2077 "This game has received a PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of strong violence, use of strong language and depictions of sex with visible genitals. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age." "This game contains frequent depictions of strong violence towards human-like characters. Powerful attacks with both bladed weapons and firearms can cause dismemberment and decapitation, accompanied by strong blood and gore effects. Wounds and other injuries are very detailed and bodies can be mutilated further after being killed. There is a side mission in which a man chooses to be killed by crucifixion, recreating the death of Jesus Christ. The player is able to hammer in the nails and then raise the cross. The man can be heard screaming in pain and continues to struggle until he dies. The game also contains frequent use of strong language ('****' and '****'). The player's character has the ability to 'romance' various characters. Some of these 'romance' options lead to depictions of sexual activity, shown from a first person perspective. In some cases, genitals are visible after sex has taken place." So according to PEGI, again the classifation board that covers Europe, has Cyberpunk 2077 labelled with the Adult Classification, while Senran Kagura is clearly not.
GOG surely must know something that the ESRB, PEGI and everyone else that has played the game seemed to have missed... I mean, what other reason could there be for Senran Kagura to receive the scarlet lettering while Cyberpunk 2077 does not.
So, no, there's no trolling here from me. I just laid it out for all of you in crayon. There's only people like yourself and GOG's own staff who're uneducated on the matter and made a mistake because of that, or folks who have a clear bias against games that are anime. Either way is bad, because you either have GOG labeling things while have no freaking clue what they're doing, or they're bias against certain types of games and by extension probably the people who like those kinds of games. Pick your poison. Both bad, with one being really bad.
Edit - Censored the words in the PEGI content description for Cyberpunk
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Is cyberpunk 2077's main feature on display massive jiggly hooters? Is massive jiggly hooters the main attraction of that game or similar games like GTA or the witcher? That might give you a clue to how and why is it possible that a game with high rating doesn't have "adult content" on it while another one does.
Anyway, this is probably the weirdest and most unexpected "dramas" that GOG trolls ever came up with here, considering the whole senran kagura is a very intentionally "titillating" series of games. So to see someone raging that it got "adult content" in the news announcement, a news announcement that gets buried in time in a couple of days with an "adult content" line that nobody gives a shit about to begin with, is just bizarre. And it's double bizarre with the appearance of the usual trolls that go "OMG GOG released another porn game! Think of the childern! Tiddies OMG GOG is the worst!" under the other games that use sexual themes as their main thing regardless of how explicit it actually is, who now go "OMG this is not porn enough! GOG is the worst, this is a massive fuckin problem!". lol
The fact that you consider the mostly ignored label in a very shortlived news post a "scarlet letter" more likely hints at you having some sort of a prejudice against nudie games or porn in general, because it's you who somehow see the "adult content" line there as some sort of a "problem" that "harms" your favourite "totally kid friendly" game. Everybody completely ignores that line, except for people who are actually enraged by porn, because that line has next to no impact on anything.
This concern trolling only gets you to another reason why that "adult content" line is there (in that news post that will soon disappear along with that line, getting replaced with the info on the gamecard that goes like "This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Nudity or Sexual Content, General Mature Content"). It's there because if it wasn't there the usual troll crowd would instead go "OMG! tits! GOG this porn hurrrr durrrr. Jiggly anime something something disgusting yadda yadda it needs a separate category blah blah" and so on and so forth. It's there to declare "don't let anyone claim we didn't tell you this tiddy game is a tiddy game".
"but... but... cyberpunk 2077!" yeah yeah I dunno why that game and other games like that don't have a "This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Nudity or Sexual Content, General Mature Content" on their gamecard, it's a mystery. Probably an anime bias or something.
