I don't understand the cero d and z shenanigans
Z means the game is 18+. Some retailers won't carry it and you'll need an ID to buy it. It's pretty much the equivalent of an M ESRB rating, where D is more like a hard T.
>>731022080Z is equivalent to an AO rating. You can't get carded for M rated games, it's unconstitutional.
>>731022189unconstitutional where and in what way?
>>731022189It's not really as comparable to AO. Content that would get you an ESRB AO would get your game rejected for a rating at all under CERO. This includes even some stuff that's fine under ESRB M, such as nudity. It's usually extreme violence that gets a game a Z rating. So content-wise, Z is much closer to M. To sell a pornographic adult game you have to go through a different ratings board that exists separate from CERO. Also, American stores can totally card you for video games. They can make you have to wear the special membership hat too if they want. They can also just choose to not sell it to you for absolutely no reason or just because they don't like you.
>>731021926Z allows gore but even then that's limited, western games localized in Japan as well as Resident Evil / Biohazard still have to remove anything that range between bodies torn apart, beheadings, intestines coming out, etc on human characters. A funny example was how Dying Light in Japan (rated Z) didn't censor any violence done on zombies (because they're monsters according to the Japanese logic) whereas you can't jib the human enemies that you sometimes see in the game. Human characters would also show green blood pouring from wounds during cutscenes, but this color change of the blood can be inconsistent when the surroundings remain painted in red.On the other hand, Kingdom Come Deliverance (also rated Z in Japan) wasn't censored. There is that questline where you need to sabotage the executions and one of them involve beheading, which is still shown in the cutscene on the Japanese version. But that's probably something that was overlooked during the process check.
