Ha-ha, have you been in sauna ever? There is temperature from 85 to 110 degrees Celsius. If you go to sauna cut you'll feel a lot of pain... especially if you splash the water on the hot stones. A LOT of pain.
Did you even read what I wrote? I said that the scene was censored. I'm all for natural nudity where it's natural. I'm all for sauna scene with nude Ciri and all other women without 20th century underwear bullshit. However, if CDPR didn't want to show Ciri naked then they should have just removed that scene completely. Show it all or show nothing, understand?
I agree they are quite out of place, especially in the sauna scene.I am Finnish. I have, in all likelihood, been to sauna more than you have ever in your life. And I know a great deal about the sauna traditions. In the time past, sauna was where you went to give birth, where your body would be washed after you died. It was where you'd sew wounds and sweat out sickness. Sauna is a traditional place of renewal and healing. There is an old saying: "What tar, sauna and liquor can't heal, that will kill you".
And like I said before, they went for a compromise. Ciri wears bandages because she is injured and because the developers did not want to be accused of sexualising a character the player is supposed to view as a daughter. The characters wear panties (which incidentally are a time-honoured part of The Witcher's universe) because otherwise they'd have to choose between very peculiar anatomical omissions and risking an X-rating for their game. I honestly don't see why the matter is so dire that you need to complain about it. If it's porn that you seek then you've got the entire Internet to choose from.
The American market is the largest consumer of Witcher 3. Tennagers are the largest demographic of Witcher 3. Therefore CDPR has had to think of both when applying measures of self-censorship.
Not every American is unable to seperate pornography from natural sexuality. Not every American is a narrow-minded puritan...
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Spoken like an artist without any commercial considerations. You can be indignant that other national cultures and people do not share your liberal view on sexuality, but it is up to the commercial forces that are backing the production of the game to take it into consideration. I've heard this debate time and time again by prideful artists who know nothing of the world of commercial success and how people will always have to compromise and find a balance between artistic integrity and sensible business.
You would be surprised...
Bad press, cultural differences and different perceptions of sexuality. The other objects in the sauna are passive and hardly anyone would say they are there to heighten the sexuality of the scene. I could definitely see many American media outlets enraged that there is a game where the player can play as a very young woman in full nude (her age is never mentioned I think) and who is seen first in the game as a child. Sexuality is a topic that is feared and unspoken in American culture and it seems sensible to me for CDPR to simply cover Ciri up a little to avoid inevitable histrionics.
It couldn't be that adult people enjoy mature storylines which include well done sexual scenes that are aesthetically pleasing as well as explicit... why do I always get the impression it's only a problem with video games? Right, because people can't handle the idea that children might get to see it.
