With the launch of the final version of Martha is Deadall the complaints claims from Sony to allow the game to be launched on the PlayStation Store for PS4 and PS5. We speak of censorship in the plural because in reality they are different.
Attention advances: below we will detail some moments of the plot of Martha is Dead, essential to make it clear where the censorships have been applied. If you don’t want to know anything before playing it, read no further and live happily ever after.
The real complaints, that is the modified contents compared to the Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S and PC versions, are basically three:
- In a dream sequence, Giulia, Martha’s twin sister and protagonist of the game, tears the face off Martha’s corpse using a medal to perform the surgery, and puts it on her face. The censored version is a non-interactive movie, where on PC and Xbox it is the player who performs the whole process.
- In an advanced sequence of the game, Giulia goes to the cemetery where Martha’s body is exposed and, to check if her sister is pregnant, she guts her with dressmaker’s scissors, pulling out the fetus and placing it on his chest. This sequence has also been rendered non-interactive on the PlayStation console.
- In the final sequence, Giulia briefly recounts her experience in an asylum, talking about how she masturbated all day in the throes of very strong impulses. All references to masturbation have been removed from the PlayStation version.
The PS4 and PS5 versions have also undergone other changes, less invasive, with the addition of more options for content censorship and the addition of more warning screens. Since these are optional changes, we do not report them as actual complaints.
