They did something similar with Wolfenstein in Germany, I generally cannot stand any form of censorship but I suppose I like to preserve the original meaning and art.
Was it changed in the German version?
I don't remember how the guy looked in the German version. I hope it wasn't changed. If so, it would be way overboard.
Everyone knows it's a symbol frequently used in Buddhism. I've seen it on tons of Buddha statues in China while I worked there.
Our age rating system for movies and games FSK/USK is pretty relaxed nowadays.
A lot of times the german age rating suggestion is lower than the PEGI rating
and movies dont really get censored anymore. They pretty much unbanned all of the 70, 80 and 90's slaher films
and made new ratings for them and now they are all uncut and rated 16+. (instead of cut and 18+)
Even modern movies like The Hateful Eight are uncut and rated 16+.
Same for games, Red Dead Redemption 2 and so on are all uncut.
Its not nearly as harsh as it was ten years ago.
And they even changed the "nazi symbol" restriction for video games. They were always okay in movies
because movies are officially considered as art, video games arent.
They changed this and its now possible to release video games with these symbols in Germany
but only if the age rating company thinks that the symbols make sense in that specific product.
So they still can say no but for example the latest Wolfenstein game was released uncut in Germany too.
The only thing that our age rating company for video games, USK ,doesnt like at all
are lewd / sexy asian video games with underage looking anime characters.
They refuse to rate that kind of stuff.