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I really enjoy the game so far; and it's really satisfying to figure out stuff, and I love the graphics and the shaders!
My one and only, tiny, tiny complain is that I find weird, that you're using "F***" for "Fuck" (while characters swear a lot in the game).
I don't understand why you'd do that?
I mean, come on! Either be family friendly or not. Either don't use it at all or spell it out.
In any case, thanks for the game :)
Thanks for your input there, you make a good point! Different drafts of the script have gone back and forth on how prominent profanity is and whether or not it's censored. The working idea was to try and implement a toggleable censor in the options, and in the meantime it was just half-censored.
Ultimately since it's really a rather dark game with some pretty heavy themes and graphic moments throughout, it's possible we'll leave the censoring out as it doesn't make a ton of sense. That said, profanity might also be toned down for the most part (with the exception of one later party member with a sailor's mouth, hehe) just because it can be a tempting crutch to fall back on when you've got nowhere else to go.
There was initially a line of dialogue with Rook annoyingly pointing out the auto captioning software (aka dialogue boxes) was censoring profanity that might have addressed this partially, but even after that got taken it out for some reason the partial censoring remained and I got acclimated to it without noticing.
Looking back now as an observer, I agree with the majority that it feels out of place in what is otherwise unabashedly dark and violent, so I'll gladly make an effort to get rid of all censoring in the next build.
Thanks for the input guys!
You can have the best of both worlds and play off the joke, as that fits well within Jin's character as far as I see her to have a moment of dialogue related to the swearing and then she corrects it and you can see the swears. It's not plot-centric so in the grand scheme of dialogue it'd be unnecessary, but I would count that as a bit of character and world-building in relation to his augmentations and how they can function. Unless that's not how they work in the overall world, in which case the joke would push beyond the bounds of how augments are designed and not worth going into the 4th wall potentially. Heh, something about parental locks on a brain augmentation gets me chuckling.
