Lewd platformer 20 Ladies has seemingly been censored as 20 Bunnies on PlayStation consoles, using furry bunnies instead of human women.
On October 12th, Eastasiasoft released a trailer for 20 Ladies, a puzzle platformer launching November 19th for Nintendo Switch. Players are tasked with hopping around levels to find images of barely clothed or barely censored ladies. You can find the trailer here, but reader discretion is advised.
Eastasiasoft also released a trailer the day after for 20 Bunnies, a puzzle platformer launching November 19th for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Players are tasked with hopping around levels to find images of rabbit girls; that’s the furry kind, not the Playboy or JRPG casino kind. You can find the trailer below.
For those who had not seen both trailers, they both feature the exact same scenes of gameplay and music; with the only difference being the silhouettes of the ladies or bunnies the players reach to find the full images. The trailer thumbnails also feature the same background, and both games also have near-identical pages on Eastasiasoft’s website [1, 2].
Commentators were quick to notice the similarities, joking how the censorship on PlayStation used “furry” characters. Anthropomorphic characters, while commonly used for children’s cartoons and films, are also infamous for being used in pornographic art, and inspiration for furry hookup communities who meet dressed as characters.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has been known to censor sexual content in games, usually games with an anime art style. In late December 2018, SIE Japan Asia President Atsushi Morita stated the then recent spate of censorship of anime-styled sexual content on PlayStation 4 games had been “to meet global standards.”
This censorship was seemingly forced in Japan; and led to Japanese developers to release on other platforms, or create different versions for PlayStation consoles.
This year we’ve seen a DLC boss in R-Type Final 2 being censored because it looked phallic (but only in the US, while censored on Nintendo Switch in the US and Europe), and a scene of violence in Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! There do seem to be some exceptions however.
Bandai Namco Entertainment denyied rumors Tales of Arise would be censored on PlayStation, and Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story came to PlayStation 4 uncensored despite their female character’s designs. This may be because publisher Top Hat Studios stated they would refuse to censor the game after false information was spread, threats sent to them, and gaslighting from “industry-adjacent people.”
