EDIT: Unbanned on 29/1/2024 with new R18+ Rating
The totalitarian shithole otherwise known as Australia have decided to purge the “controversial” indie developed RPG Maker game known as The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, which is no longer accessible on Steam if your account is set as being Australian.
Australia has rapidly devolved into being a vassal state over the past couple of decades, with strenuous laws and regulations regularly being imposed upon its citizens alongside specifically targeting “problematic” themes such as video games and more.
Mainly targeting forms of hate speech and hate crimes, it’s illegal to so much as to raise your hand in a rather unconventional matter, it’s illegal to have “right wing extremist” content on your private devices, and it’s illegal to refuse unlocking said private devices to law enforcement if requested upon suspicion of you owning such content.
However Australia has a bone to pick with Japanese literature, with this shithole country targeting “pedophilic” books and materials such as No Game No Life and Eromanga Sensei.
The Commonwealth Criminal Code forbids the sale, production, possession, and distribution of offensive and abusive material that portrays an individual, or is a representation of an individual, who is or appears to be under the age of 18.
Even Sword Art Online is banned in this country due to such asinine safeguarding laws, while of course our actual politicians are the ones abusing real life children instead.
We’re a nanny state, we have anti-encryption laws allegedly to secure a safer environment on social media platforms, we have a housing crisis and yet seemingly take on over 500,000 migrants every single year. Australians are under constant tyranny from their government and threats of violence from youths who aren’t prosecuted and career criminals who will replace us.
It’s disgusting to witness the extensive censorship imposed by our dogshit government. Everything is either banned or heavily taxed, the lack of housing, job opportunities, and restrictions on various forms of entertainment.
The declining value of our currency and limited political influence contribute to the perception that Australia has become a global punchline, mirroring some aspects of America’s reputation of being the world’s biggest cuckold.
Australia is notorious for banning games outright for graphic violence or references to controlled / illegal substances, drugs basically.
Games such as Manhunt, Postal 4 and Hotline Miami 2 are banned due to their depictions of violence, while other games such as Omega Labyrinth Z are banned for the same reason we banned “problematic” manga and light novels. “Child Exploitation” of a fictional character in a provocative manner.
We actually have an R 18+ rating for such material but such a rating is rarely used, our classification board system is abysmal and hypocritical at the best of times.
Given the unorthodox nature of the horror game itself which we’ve previously discussed before regarding the creator’s doxxing orchestrated by “morally righteous” dickheads and future plans for the game publicized by the creator following the event.
For whatever reason, the game had been given a General rating by the Australian classification board, while the game itself is relatively tame aside from such troubling themes as cannibalism and “incest”, I believe there might be an error in the game’s classification, and as a result it has been temporarily removed pending a reevaluation for a new and more accurate classification.
Thankfully, if you’ve already bought the game you can still access it, but given our extensive nature of banning games temporarily, Rimworld for instance having been banned and reclassified, while other games such as Left 4 Dead 2 were censored in this country due to high-impact violence while slaughtering hoards of the undead.
There’s a bloody good reason why Australia is one of the top countries when it comes to piracy, because we’re constantly dealt with barbaric bullshit such as this. It’s likely that the game will return with a revised and higher rated classification, but it’s just as likely that it’ll remain gone for good considering how our government seemingly demonizes fictional content, treating its citizens like babies.
