So, news! Upcoming game Dead or Alive: Dimensions for the 3DS currently doesn't have a place on Nordic distributor Bergsalas website. How come, you might ask?

Everything started with a thread on Swedish forum "Flashback", which is famous for being the biggest place to discuss EVERYTHING. A user started a thread saying that he would try to convict the company for selling a game figuring child pornography to test a newly installed law. Last year, the same law got a Swedish manga translator convicted for the same crime. It's currently being tested in the highest instance of the Swedish courts. According to this new law; any picture depicting a person under 18 years of age, even if it's animated or a drawing, is child pornography.

Back to the actual case about this game. Bergsala's Patrik Johansson told Swedish website Gamereactor that "Nintendo of Europe has due to various reasons decided not to distribute the game in Sweden. They do not want to go into details, but state it's due to several resons. Thus, unfortunately I cannot declare Nintendo's reasoning regarding the matter."

The theory spreading around is that the games characters Kasumi, Kokoro and Ayane who are all under 18 years old can be seen in revealing outfits. This might be further used in the "Figure Mode" (where you apparently can take photos of the girls) and thus, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY is the thing you're looking into if you're buying DOA: Dimensions in Sweden.

One Swedish retailer is however still going to sell this game.

So, what do you think? Isn't this kinda of a stretch for the industry? I'm a huge fan of manga and anime, and I've always liked the Dead or Alive games somewhat, even if they include a kinda of a pervy side.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What? Even the volleyball games, which are even marketed as glorified fapping tools shouldn't be classified as that. Creepy and voyueristic? Yes. Child Porn? No.

That sucks for any Swedish gamers that were looking forward to this game.

Government fail.

As usual.

Get the localizers to go in to the bio, update all the info for the girls to 18 - problem solved.  What are they going to argue - I know this totally fictional cartoon is meant ot be under 18 and I will call her to the stand to present her fictional birth certificate ... no wait.

This could be bad for whoever might be helping on developing it but considering the DoA franchise lately has been rather stale in whatever it does, I'm not sure if there would be a lot of demand for this game.

What? Even the volleyball games, which are even marketed as glorified fapping tools shouldn't be classified as that. Creepy and voyueristic? Yes. Child Porn? No.

But they don't look that young. Child pornography is not seeing a hot 17 year old in a bikini. Child pornography is graphic pics of young, pre-pubescent children. Look at movies like American Pie, where all the characters are all suppose to be in high school. Is this movie also child pornography? What a stupid law.

Get the localizers to go in to the bio, update all the info for the girls to 18 - problem solved.  What are they going to argue - I know this totally fictional cartoon is meant ot be under 18 and I will call her to the stand to present her fictional birth certificate ... no wait.

Now does the law prohibit the existence of such imagery within the country or simply the commercial enterprise dealing with such imagery?  The law is stupid either way but ban on selling a product and a ban on the product itself are two different things.

Man and I thought Sweden was cool.  Oh wait, it's just as shitty as any other country with its own problems and lapses of logic.  I tell you man, any sociology department makes it seems like Sweden is this socially conscious mecca where infinite money seems to pour out of a hole to feed the hungry and care for the sick.  Luckily I know better than to just take a country at face value and know it for all its good and bad qualities.  This is one where Sweden's thinks it's being progressive when it's just being an idiot.

So what's next, banning the internet?  Because let me tell ya there's a lot of naked cartoon pussy on the internet and this law might make illegal like half of them.

The Flashback member that reported the game got the following response from the police:

Farbror Blå said:

"I've looked at everything you've linked, but can't find any child pornography...? It's not enough to write that someone's 17 years old, and besides, the image in itself is not pornographic."

Now does the law prohibit the existence of such imagery within the country or simply the commercial enterprise dealing with such imagery?

 it seems like Sweden is this socially conscious mecca where infinite money seems to pour out of a hole to feed the hungry and care for the sick. 

So what's next, banning the internet?

So the game was not banned. Nintendo could totally have released it and everything would've been fine. They just chose not to, to be on the safe side.

Since the right wing alliance took over in 2006 Sweden has gotten more and more conservative. 

That sucks for any Swedish gamers that were looking forward to this game.

@shadowknight508 said:

That sucks for any Swedish gamers that were looking forward to this game.

I doubt there are many, if any.

Isn't age of consent in Europe like 14?

Those characters are older than 14.

Isn't age of consent in Europe like 14?Those characters are older than 14.

Age of consent is between 14 and 16 around here, but for porn you still need to be 18.
 
It's not banned though, it's just Nintendo chickening out.

Looks like the game has had it's classification revoked.. in which country you ask? Take a wild guess..   

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