The lantern, the witch, and the wardrobe

Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society was just announced for a Western release, and the first-person dungeon-crawling RPG is coming to PS5 and PS4 in early 2023. It is the sequel to Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Darkness on PS4, and you can read our review of that game here.

Released on 6 November 2020 in Japan, Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society will include both Japanese and English audio tracks when it arrives, and preorders for a limited edition that includes a copy of the game, hardcover art book, two-disc original soundtrack, “Dungeon Divers” card game and play mat, and a collector’s box, are now available via NIS America Online Store.

Are you a fan of dungeon-crawling RPGs? Did you play Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Darkness on PS4? Assemble your brigade in the comments section below.

Yes, but I just don’t trust Sony with these type of niche Japanese games anymore. Too many bad examples. I’ll stick to Switch for this kind of stuff. Dungeon crawlers are best on portable devices anyway.

@thefourfoldroot1 If they censor it, you won't even know about it, even on Switch, because they will be developing it simultaneously. Anyway, I will surely buy it for the PS5. Already have the predecesor for PS4.

@Sil_Am Unfortunately this may well be true. Devs just self censor now due to Sonys puritanical policies. We can at least compare to the older game in terms of visuals and themes and I just won’t play it if there has been an obvious change.

@thefourfoldroot1 you're overreacting. Whether there's nudity or not in character sprites isn't going to change the quality of the game. Not having a bath/hot springs/or similar scene doesn't make a game bad.

@Milktastrophe No. You are correct. Taking something good away doesn’t make something automatically bad. It does, however, make it automatically worse.

@thefourfoldroot1 I disagree that nudity is automatically something good that makes things better. Especially when it's sexualization of a minor which is all too common with these types of games (I'm not familiar with Labyrinth of Refrain/Galleria so hopefully it doesn't).

@Milktastrophe Who’s talking about minors? That’s not allowed and nor should it be, quite obviously. But, yes, as long as it fits with the narrative of the world and is within character, nudity is a nice thing.

@thefourfoldroot1 you were complaining about Sony's general censorship stance and sexualization of minors is the main thing that gets censored from Japanese games. Unless you have those "bad examples" that are primarily something else?

Also you said you wouldn't play this one if it has less nudity than the first. Based on what you've just said, if that's what makes sense for the story shouldn't you accept that?

@Milktastrophe No it’s not. That’s a fallacy. I could give you a long list of censored games on Sony’s platform (or you could Google it) but it’s not about minors. The very fact Nintendo allows them on Switch, and the law allows them for sale, proves that.

And I said I wouldn’t play it in terms of the discussion about the PlayStation version, I’d stick to the switch (or PC) versions, which are usually released unmolested.

Typical. The people that complain about censored games can never give an example of bad censorship.

Btw sexualization of minors is censored in games like Criminal Girls, Labyrinth Life, Raspberry Cube, and Zanki Zero. So not so much a fallacy when it's so easy to find examples.

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