Personally I think changing her age is hypocritical. I wonder how many people on this very thread dissed Nintendo for censoring Mortal Kombat's blood on the super nintendo? How many people bitched when costumes in bravely default were censored? How many people turn into knights in shining armor when rockstar gets slammed by bad press about gta.? Sure, in real life sexualization of a real life 13 year old is disgusting, but the thing is......IT'S A FUCKING VIDEO GAME. IT'S ART. Are we censoring Ancient greek statues and paintings? So what? Freedom of expression only exists if the expression is Morally approved by the collective society? Bullshit. The argument of changing her age is no different than the argument of taking away gore and violence in video games. At the end of the day, changing her age wouldn't make this game bad by any standard, but it does leave a bitter taste. Hell its sad when I can draw a picture of a naked woman and probably get praised for it if it's good enough, but add bit of context to it....two insignificant numbers....and bam, pedophilia.
It's kind of sad actually....the fact this conversation exists shows just how little society has progressed in terms of respecting video games as an artform