According to Germany's age rating, controlling a nude lead character is not acceptable.
CD Projekt RED has explained through a recent interview with the GameStar media why we never see Geralt from Rivia completely naked in any of his The WItcher video games, despite the fact that not a few situations occur in which the warlock strips himself of his clothes for one reason or another, yes, always without representing the genitals of the protagonist.
You can't control a naked character
According to its creators, the reason is very specific; and it is that the age classification system of Germany does not finish accepting that a protagonist character that can be controlled is shown completely naked on screen. For this reason, there are many sequences in which Geralt undresses, although always through shots that hide his genitals, thus denying the possibility of seeing the witcher through a complete nude.
Likewise, from CD Projekt RED they add that it is not only a “suggestion” of the German classification agency, since other countries also penalize similar situations when classifying a video game, thus preventing a protagonist from appearing completely naked.
Of course, the measure does not affect uncontrollable characters or NPC; That is why in The Witcher and in many other video games we do see completely nude secondary characters without fear that agencies will penalize the game for that reason.
That is why CD Projekt RED and many other developers accept the particularities of each market and adapt their work to a format that works in all countries, in order to save costs and not have to create a version according to the requirements of one or more agencies. age classification.
Recently, the Polish company itself was reacting to the leak of the Cyberpunk 2077 (+18) age rating where it specified in a long list elements such as "sexual exploitation", "mutilation", "blood", "prostitution", "cruelty " and many more.
