The first two controversial Super Seducer games have been denied a release from yet another platform.
Super Seducer: How to Talk to Girls, Super Seducer 2: Advanced Seduction Tactics, and Super Seducer 3: The Final Seduction are all games by controversial pick-up artist/dating coach Richard La Ruina. The games claim to purportedly teach the player how to pick up women using pick-up artist techniques. The games themselves have proved to be incredibly controversial, and Super Seducer 3 was recently banned from sale on Steam.
According to a recent tweet by La Ruina, Nintendo won't allow Super Seducer: How to Talk to Girls or Super Seducer 2: Advanced Seduction Tactics on Switch. According to the tweet, La Ruina "did check initially and N said they'd publish if we got appropriate ratings," but despite this, the titles are still not being published. This isn't the first time the game has been banned, as the first title in the series was denied a launch on the PS4 as well.
According to La Ruina, the games have been fully ported, meaning they were both playable on Switch, and had passed the first round of Nintendo's Quality Assurance process. According to an email La Ruina received from Nintendo, which he shared a screenshot of in his tweet: "While testing the Games we did realize that they contain particularly explicit content. Given this explicit content of the Games we have to inform you, that Nintendo is not able to release the Games on Nintendo Switch." So apparently Nintendo balked at the game's sexual content.
This has to have come as a heavy blow to La Ruina, as with Switch games selling incredibly well right now, he probably would have made a good bit of money from a Switch release. It's not surprising though that they wouldn't be allowed. Nintendo has always tried to maintain a family-friendly image, and traditionally tried to keep its platform free of overtly sexualized games.
On the other hand, Nintendo been relaxing their old standards somewhat on more modern systems. Games with heavy sexual themes like Omega Labyrinth Life or Night Trap have made it on Switch; the latter even making it on despite former Nintendo of America President Howard Lincoln claiming that it would never be allowed on a Nintendo system. It's possible that Nintendo just doesn't want to be associated with such a controversial figure, or maybe it didn't like that the game contained explicit content of real women, or maybe it just didn't want to let one of 2018's most poorly reviewed games onto its system.
Source: Nintendo Everything
