Back when I posted another thread, there were a couple of topics listed that had apparently been gone over multiple times in the past, and one caught my eye because I couldn’t actually figure out what the controversy would be about. So I figured that I’d once again risk stirring the pot and ask…
What’s the deal about mosaics? It seems pretty straight forward to me–if you order a product straight from Japan, it’s going to have mosaics; if you order a product that has been converted for an English speaking audience, chances are that the mosaics have been removed (or, as in the case of Chain and Kana, there are patches to remove them).
The only controversy I can possibly see is whether removing mosaics is diminishing the “purist” aspect of the bishoujo game by not allowing the western audience to see it with the Japanese censorship intact.
Personally, I don’t care about mosaics one way or another–if the game has them, oh well. I prefer the artwork not to have them, only because I don’t like the fuzzy blotches spoiling the quality of a picture–but I understand why the Japanese put them there in the first place, and having played a couple of games that had mosaics, I didn’t find that it altered my enjoyment of the game any.
Then again, maybe I’m just weird. Someone feel free to enlighten me…