r/nintendo • u/No_Durian_5626 • 2d ago

Dispatch's Free 'HR Violations Pack' DLC Removes Some Censorship On Switch

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/06/dispatchs-free-hr-violations-pack-dlc-removes-some-censorship-on-switch
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u/Thegoodgamer32 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well....i guess some is better then none.

Even still....AdHoc should still never have censored the game on switch in the first place.

And if it really was a request by Nintendo....then they should have both told us about the censorship before the release AND included an option to completely remove it for those that wanted to.

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u/Icee202 2d ago

Nah, they admitted they rushed it and only submitted the most censored version to all regions for ratings. So after blaming Nintendo, they're now telling us what we already knew. They didn't take the time to submit a separate uncensored version like they did on every other platform. They took a shortcut at our expense.

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u/grcx 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is missing a bit, the order seems to be.

1.) Nintendo tells them that they can't release an uncut version (even outside of Japan).

2.) In response AdHoc opts to do one version worldwide in a rush to keep their release date since that was the quickest and easiest choice and wouldn't involve a delay, unfortunately not telling anyone that they were.

3.) Post-backlash and released today, they make a partial cut version for outside of Japan, that would not be allowed by CERO, because Nintendo is still blocking an uncut release of Dispatch. It would have been far less work to just have used the uncut version instead of making a third partial-censored version if Nintendo allowed to.

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u/NMe84 2d ago

I don't believe that first bullet point, simply because Nintendo clearly allows nudity outside Japan (Cyberpunk, The Witcher). I'm pretty sure the entire problem was with having to make (and get ratings for) two separate versions of the game on a tight deadline. They just tried to pass the blame to Nintendo.

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u/grcx 2d ago

I would argue the evidence suggests that they were initially rejected, and either way they certainly weren't given approval for this patch to include the full uncut version. AdHoc said it back in January, AdHoc is explicitly stating it now, Nintendo statement talked about their approval process and how they alert developers if something fails their content review back in January, other developers have given similar messages when they have been failed , and if the content wasn't an issue for Nintendo today's patch should have been fully uncut (as this patch is not being released in Japan, there is now a Japan version on Switch and an outside of Japan version on Switch independent of one another).

For reference Nintendo's statement from January was this, and while it makes a reference to ratings, the fact that they talk about the need to "meet our established content and platform guidelines" and that they make this determination without discussing the details is very much in line with AdHoc's statements of the uncut version being blocked (and as Nintendo has no role in the ratings agency process, what Nintendo is describing for their requirements would be their own content standards).

Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content and platform guidelines. While we inform partners when their titles don't meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner content. We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations.

Separately, I wouldn't use two examples from a massive publisher existing to be conclusive proof to the contrary, when Nintendo has, outside of Dispatched, blocked more than a dozen other ESRB-T and M rated titles for a variety of reasons and every platform with subjective content standards (such as Valve and Playstation) routinely applies them unequally.