Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-25400375-20150315043543/@comment-679780-20150415162237

Flyinpenguin117 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Yeah but these threats only lasted so long, about as long as the average modern Sonic game.

Be interesting if Shamar was causing problems, but that might be controversal for Sonic lore. The thing is that these threats come up alot, so its likely that they take constant precautions.

And going back to one of my older posts, I came up with the idead that Shamar itself doesn't cause problems, but has its own internal struggles with cultural/religious insurrgents. Holoska was formerly under a dictatorial regime, but it collapsed years ago. Its economy is based off of mining, as there are rich mineral deposits under the ice sheets. I would like such things in Sonic's world, but chances are Sonic Team wouldn't dare because they don't want backlash.

It's like... say I wanted to make something based in 1001 Arabian Nights such as a game or cartoon. And then I get a lot of angry islamic complaints for using the name "Allah" or "Muhammad". I'm inspired by 1001 Nights so those arabians shouldn't of made it in the first place if they don't want people inspired by it today.

And I'm pretty sure that such censorship is not covered by usual rating boards. If you're going to show sex or violence, you need to remove it or take a higher rating. If you're going to show religious imagry or reference well yeah since most cultures around the world started from that anyway.