I brought up the imagery of Vincent being shocked at some sort of body-related reveal from Rin, coming from a scene that isn't what it appears to be without context but still has transphobic coding. While there may indeed be a lack of context, it wouldn't be helpful for the game's story to be left open enough to interpretation to leave the possibility of anything transphobic. It's an answer that may satisfy many, but I can imagine a few points where trans players would still raise flags at.
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You will need the full context to really understand what's going on there and come up with your own interpretation afterward." But even as a PR person living in 2019, I'm not really concerned about that scene. We always do post-mortems for games we look back and say, 'what could we have done better?' Many years ago, we said 'if we ever do Catherine again, probably shouldn't deadname Erica.' But I think for that scene in question, there's just context, there's misinterpretations, mistranslations out there and it's hard to get the actual story. "A lot of the members of the localization team for Full Body worked on the original Catherine as well.
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Catherine: Full Body (and the PC release that came out earlier this year) corrects this in its credits, with Stebel directly using the term "deadname." At the very least, this is a potential indicator to concerned trans players that the localization team is aware of the vocabulary and are operating in some degree of good faith. Stebel then brought up a small but meaningful change from the original game to Catherine: Full Body-Erica was deadnamed in the credits of the original game, "deadname" being a term used by trans people referring to pre-transition names.
So in terms of content between the Japanese and Western releases of the game, there is not going to be anything that is disingenuously represented-you're going to get the same game as Japan." There are various timelines in play, there are various motivations in play that really get lost without the context of the entire game leading up to the scene we're discussing now.
"What we do in localization is so complex that anyone who tries to grab an individual scene from a Japanese game and translate it themselves, they're not going to get the full context of what's going on. "It's the biggest topic of discussion for Catherine: Fully Body," Stebel stated, very willing to engage the subject. One result seemed to be that transwoman character, Erica, never transitioned in the first place. The leak, as unofficial translations described, detailed one new ending of Catherine: Full Body in which all of the characters are "happier" in an alternate timeline. The game releases in the West in 2019.After the demo, I jumped straight into the content controversies with Stebel, first bringing up the controversy about the leaked Japanese-language ending. You can read more about the limited edition in our previous report.Ĭatherine: Full Body releases in Japan on Februfor PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The Ideal Voice DLC set is included as part of the Dynamite Full Body Box limited edition, and will be available at a later date as paid DLC.
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