{"id":425,"date":"2025-03-18T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:25","slug":"dark-visual-novel-pulled-for-japanese-age-rating-revision-just-four-days-after-eshop-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/dark-visual-novel-pulled-for-japanese-age-rating-revision-just-four-days-after-eshop-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Visual Novel Pulled For Japanese Age Rating Revision Just Four Days After eShop Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Currently sits at PEGI 18 in the UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The visual novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hungry_lamb_traveling_in_the_late_ming_dynasty\">The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty<\/a> launched on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2593370\/The_Hungry_Lamb_Traveling_in_the_Late_Ming_Dynasty\/\">Steam<\/a> last April, and it was a hit \u2014 like, one million copies sold, 40,000+ &#8216;Overwhelmingly Positive&#8217; reviews kind of a hit. Those who had been waiting for the title to come to Switch had their wishes answered last week when it finally launched globally on the eShop, but, after just four days, the game was removed from the Japanese storefront pending an age rating review.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/hit-visual-novel-pulled-from-japanese-nintendo-switch-store-only-four-days-after-launch-as-age-rating-is-brought-into-question\/\">Automaton<\/a>, The Hungry Lamb initially launched in Japan with a 16+ IARC rating last week, putting it at the lower end of the international range (it received ESRB Teen in North America, Mature in Australia and PEGI 18 in the UK), though that is expected to be bumped up a level following review.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/dark-visual-novel-pulled-for-japanese-age-rating-revision-just-four-days-after-eshop-launch\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently sits at PEGI 18 in the UK. The visual novel The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty launched on Steam last April, and it was a hit \u2014 like, one million copies sold, 40,000+ &#8216;Overwhelmingly Positive&#8217; reviews kind of a hit. Those who had been waiting for the title to come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}