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Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
30th Apr, 2024 03:55:37 PM
It depends on the intent:
- Gory Discretion Shot if this is an artistic choice implemented for everyone. For instance, a gory horror movie might leave a particular death obscured to invoke Nothing Is Scarier, a game might make a character's death more dramatic by removing the spectacle of cartoonish gibs flying everywhere and avoiding janky-looking npc interactions, etc.
- Censored for Comedy and Relax-o-Vision if this is meant as a joke, and/or they intentionally censor it to call attention to it
- A cutscene is censored because they only rendered the censored version without any narrative reason - not a trope, maybe a sign of No Budget or a limitation of the game engine.
Expack3
Since: Nov, 2012
30th Apr, 2024 03:58:47 PM
I see. As I have no way to determine the authorial intent in my case, I'm going to leave it be and mark this as resolved. Still, I appreciate the examples!
I be more trope than man, now.
A video game has Adjustable Censorship to censor or outright remove otherwise-prevalent Gorn; however, there are specific gory scenes which are deliberately censored, even if the Adjustable Censorship is disabled. I'd normally classify this under Gory Discretion Shot, but I can find no examples where shots are left as-is, but, instead, censored. Is this in fact an example of Gory Discretion Shot? Another trope? Or not an example of a trope?