Gaming News LoL: Riot devs admit to censoring the game after the new champion’s release
Depending on regions of the world, Riot Studio sometimes changes certain words of their League of Legends champions’ stories. The proof with K’Santé, 162nd character of LoL, whose certain words had to be adjusted to “adapt to the local culture”.
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- K’Santé, as rapper Lil Nas X
- “Each region may release certain aspects of the game slightly differently”
K’Santé, as rapper Lil Nas X
He is the 162nd champion to join the cast of League of Legends. K’Santé is a top lane tank which is characterized by its flexibility: it can also be played with both offensively and defensively given his skills. nicknames”Nazumah’s prideOriginally from Shurimah, he crafts his weapons from the remains of the monsters he faces to collect water. The Champion was made in collaboration with artist Lil Nas X, an internationally known rapper who made the anthem of this year’s World Cup Like Rapper K’Santé is part of the LGBTQ+ community: He fell in love with Tope, a man he worked with about the story of the 162nd champion:
Tope and K’Santé were made for each other. Tope is balanced and tempered while K’Santé can walk at the quarter turn. Together they could achieve anything. They hunted together: Tope analyzes the enemy, then K’Santé strikes to kill him. And so the two men who did such a great job together fell in love. Until they encounter an insurmountable obstacle: the pride of youth.
Something warranted by Riot to offer champions that players can relate to. It’s Michael Luo, the chief screenwriter of K’Santé, who explains it to him Washington Post :
We really wanted to make sure there was a real love affair. For me I’ve always felt that romantic relationships bring out the best and the worst of you because it’s such an intimate relationship between two people and it brings out all your weak points… I wanted to make sure that Tope ( K’Santé’s lover) didn’t just exist as an idea (…) I wanted us to be able to do everything we could to show that these two people existed at the time and had a meaningful relationship.
“Each region may release certain aspects of the game slightly differently”
A fact that can sometimes be neglected depending on the region of the world. It was Jeremy Lee (Executive Producer) who answered questions on the subject on the mic Sky news in the final of this weekend’s World Cup. He explains that Riot sometimes changes certain words (e.g. lover for partner) for certain countries that are resistant to LGBTQ+ rights:
Each region may release certain aspects of the game slightly differently to accommodate local culture.
It was Hanna Woo (Head of International Public Relations) who added some answers:
Even if it’s not explicit, even if it’s not direct, even if changes have been made or certain things aren’t that important to that character’s identity, it’s like you should see them.
As hinted at above, Riot seems to be pushing character creation to showcase a diverse cast of champions. To do what? The studio was already asking about the issue when the community pointed it out only have female heroesHe then indicated that he wanted to offer a panel of diversified champions so everyone could relate to someone. A wish that is still accepted today with the release of K’Santé.
