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Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Considering all the warnings Konami has put on the game it's no surprise Australia probably pissed their pants when they saw that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hotline Miami 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Saints Row 4 are among dozens of games to have been denied an Australian release [...]

This is only partially true, Saints Row 4 and The Stick of Truth released modified versions in Australia. Hotline Miami 2 remains without and official release in Australia.

As for Silent Hill f? OFLC have pulled the page listing it as RC.

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/silent-hill-f-ban-in-australia-retracted-age-rating-up-for-review-again/

The screenshot of the pulled page indicates it was an IARC classification i.e. it was automatically classified based an Konami's answers to a generic survey distributed to classification boards globally. If Konami contest the automatic classification then it will be looked at by actual humans who may determine that offensive content is contextualized to a degree that it can be released (or failing that give a list of content that needs to be modified).