Ok, so I'm going to have to tackle this post in multiple parts. Sorry to do this to all of you just wanting to speculate, don't read this if you don't want to, but it was bound to happen eventually.
The shoddy translation I mentioned might not be much, but I did see a few screenshot comparisons. The "SMH fam (Shaking my head)" was un-necessary altering of the original dialogue.
That's hardly a reason to call someone's years of hard work "shoddy". Because they tried to tackle the dialogue with a modern sensibility? That doesn't seem at all to be a problem with most games. A few throw away lines of meme dialogue in a game with 200+ hours of written dialogue is nothing, and it certainly isn't shoddy.
Bust slider, swimsuits, traditional Japanese underwear, outfits and any other content that was available in the Japanese version should be available to western consumers as a matter of principle. I despise cuts and alternations that remove things from artistic works, particurarily if it is done to please prudish American/German political ideologies.
"Culturalisation" is a scourge upon the industry.
And yes I will defend Hot Spring scenes as much as I would defend Sauna scenes.
This post entirely ignores the fact that the same is done for Japan with gore. Japan has routinely taken gore out of games en masse to fit their appropriation of content. Do we care? No. Because the appearance of gore isn't as big of a deal over here. It happens on movies and some of the biggest games of the past 3 generations and further beyond have been highlighted by their obscene take on gore. In Japan this isn't ok. Gore is not a thing you see in many Japanese versions of video games. You want to know something else weird? They're all for full frontal nudity on women but men? That's not ok. Games like The Order 1886 has Male nudity in it but not in the Japanese version. Don't even get me started on the whole four fingered character thing. The fact that the Yakuza might have something to do with it or that 4 is the number of death just screams paranoia.
So basically, all that's fine in America. You know what has FINALLY become not fine? The objectification of women. Something Japan is totally fine with. America is not. People have gotten over the fact that women are just pretty things to look at. And that's fine if Japanese culture thinks otherwise. Totally. But we're not responsible for us having a different mind set on the status of women in the world than them.
Fire Emblem Fates was hit quite badly with shoddy translation and dialogue altered to include memes. And again content was made unavailable to western consumers when Tokyo Mirage Sessions removed the purchase option for the Hot Springs DLC (did they ever backpedal on that decision?). As if the censoship and alternations weren't enough.
Ok. In Fates your main MALE character SPIKES the drink of a HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE to make himself look like a woman so that said homosexual female would fall in love with him. You do understand how much is wrong with that sentence right? That's just one example.
Now do we go overboard sometimes on the whole "Culturalization" thing? Sure, sometimes. But so does Japan. And yeah, it can be annoying sometimes. Calling cluturalization "a scourge on the industry" however, is ****ing ridiculous, in my opinion.
Tl;dr
It seems like you're only calling something a scourge because they took something out that you wanted. Something that, overall, isn't at all relevant to the gameplay in a majority of the cases. You want the game to change and be faced with possible scrutiny and backlash because someone decided that, hey, maybe we should cover that 13 year old girl up a little more and you didn't like that decision.
Sorry if this comes off as hostile. I don't intend it to. I just hear this so much. And honestly, it is past old.