PlayStation suddenly pulls Hotline Miami 2 from Aussie PS5 owners after realising country's ratings board denied game's release a decade ago

This pretty much shows, that in all that time: noone cared

Australia continues to treat its residents as criminals who cannot be trusted with naughty things.

For the uninitiated, the game was banned, not because of the gratuitous violence, extreme drug use, and themes involving fugue states, war crimes and cold war conspiracy,

But because of a scene depicting rape.

Except, the "depiction" was simply a character, from a pixelated top-down view, climbing onto the other character. No nudity, no thrusting - then...

The director yells "CUT!"

Turns out, it was a movie being filmed. So even within the context of the game, it wasn't rape, it was an abstraction of an abstraction, WITHIN an abstraction.

Ratings board are morons.

As an Aussie, I was lucky to have a friend gift this to me on Steam.

i’ve been clutching my pearls for the past 10 years but it’s nice to know i can rest easy tonight

The fact that's even possible is a crime.

Tonight, Australia sleeps for the first time in ten years.

What a downer ending

And only pulled after some pearl clutching nanny noticed and decided to point out the original ruling.

Not the first time someone had a dummy spit over a game that is less problematic than the average M rated movie...

Finally I will not need my ambien