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PlayStation suddenly pulls Hotline Miami 2 from Aussie PS5 owners after realising country's ratings board denied game's release a decade ago (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For the uninitiated, the game was banned, not because of the gratuitous violence, extreme drug use, and themes involving fugue states, war crimes and cold war conspiracy,

But because of a scene depicting rape.

Except, the "depiction" was simply a character, from a pixelated top-down view, climbing onto the other character. No nudity, no thrusting - then...

The director yells "CUT!"

Turns out, it was a movie being filmed. So even within the context of the game, it wasn't rape, it was an abstraction of an abstraction, WITHIN an abstraction.

Ratings board are morons.

As an Aussie, I was lucky to have a friend gift this to me on Steam.