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tl;dr
>game's plot is partially about seeking eternal life / cheating death
>Zhao Yun, semi-legendary historical figure from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms shows up in the game; completely out-of-time period (think like if Lancelot, Odysseus or Charlemagne were just wandering around a game set in the Victorian times, full set of iconic traditional armor)
>has a cool boss fight, ends with him nudging you towards the truth of the setting before vanishing, because the dead have no place in the land of the living, and he long overstayed his welcome
>CCP censors get involved again after mingaboos bitch and whine (it already passed censorship, but after the equivalent of a twitter campaign, it got re-censored)
>now, instead of vanishing and nudging you towards the truth, he instead stays alive, doesn't tell you anything, and jokes around that you're an epic warrior and his best friend then just stays as an unkillable NPC, because you're not allowed to kill Zhao Yun, that would be disrespectful to the Chinese people
>similar thing happens for a Ming Emperor (minus the boss fight) + other mature themes
>devs stuck in the middle of the CCP stomping on their neck and their playerbase disappointed at the obvious bullshit that "it was always meant to be this way"
Basically, if you're not playing Patch 1.04, you're not playing it. Ironically, they barely censored the T&A, IIRC it's just some eviscerated women's corpses that they dressed up a bit.
They're so anal about never being portrayed in the wrong, that they're incapable of telling respectful stories about themselves (even though the CCP has a policy of historical rewriting / eradication anyways). When you fight Nobunaga in Nioh 1, nobody in their right mind is thinking that it's an offense to the Japanese people - yet the CCP are too tone deaf to understand even that. The talent is there in China, and it's squandered by the rest of China being Chinese.
