Nice seeing the translation being fixed up, but it doesn't really solve the initial problem, because it's still nonsensical and seems like a bad excuse.
Do they think a "proper bra" will help that much against gravity?
A quick look at big breasts and sports bras videos, as well as considering my own experience, they don't cancel out gravity. I find the general explanation very flimsy when considering the overall context. "Realistic" is thrown out and unnatural, but considering the actions she does and her breast size, those breasts will have a notable swing of the breasts, if they were to go by realism or what's "natural". More so, it begs the question why an "ethics department" would be concerned about "realism" and "unaturality", considering that they apparently themselves had a realistic outlook here in terms of design from the beginning.
I would find it easier to chew that "don't make the breasts stand too much out, it might cause a scandal or it might affect age ratings" would be a thing an ethics department would be concerned with, than "oh no, we just gave her a bra" because of "muh realism wanted from ethics department". Did we again forget how completely unrealistic Cloud lifting Buster Sword is and how unnatural the whole movement looks? It's far more ridiculous than we actually think. If they cared about the moving of the breasts being "unnatural", they could just not make it interact with physics in a ridiculous fashion or do a slight morph like it seems they're currently doing (correct me on this if I'm wrong). It's fantasy isn't it? "Oh no we had to add a sports bra, because that will keep her breasts in almost total check and that's completely natural." The girl flips and jumps around at ridiculous speeds. Her breasts will jiggle quite a bit when you're wearing fabric..
I'm not that naive that I'm gonna buy a lazy excuse. If you do something, at least have the guts to own up to it, instead of coming with these weird inconsistent reasons. I could at least prefer the transparency in that case. I doubt anyone would be surprised at big breasts moving a lot, even with a good sports bra. It's definitely not "unnatural", which is a cop-out excuse. It's not like I'm not going to buy the game because they decided to self-censor the game based on a business decision. So it just seems overall like a lazy excuse to me.
It's like DOA, which is without doubt a fanservice game aimed at those attracted to women, as the chests of women react to gravity and the men not. If DOA tries to tout that it's a serious fighter going for realism, then I call bullshit on that obviously. One of my suggestions in the DOA6 thread was that they should've moved away from "muh breast physics" and focused on soft body physics, with less focus on a specific gender. Perhaps even have a hidden code for offline or story-mode (or for all modes, depending on if they wanted the online and esports focus to not have it) that would make the women have ridiculous breast physics and the men ridiculous dong physics.
Instead DOA6 was a big shitshow because they had no idea what they were supposed to tell that the product was and no one bought their excuses. It was like a Comical Ali moment. And this Tifa thing is nearing that territory, though obviously not to the same extent.
Really. Does them spending that effort on changing Tifa's design and her tits matter overall for me in the game? It matters very little, in fact, my main issues are story, character depictions and pacing. Tifa's tits is inconsequential in that scale (though I am very much someone who prefers characters staying true to the original. Fuck those glasses on Barret). It definitely wouldn't make me not buy the game. But the ridiculous excuses we get is just annoying. In my opinion S-E tried to tread the line in-between the two groups who would be "outraged" (for a couple of days or so) and find a middle road, but they could at least avoid coming with the weirdest excuses.
When it comes to a forum metacommentary, I generally dislike trying downplay people's concerns as well. I had the same problem when GAF back in the day thread whined about criticisms of sexualization or Anita Sarkeesian's criticisms of portrayal of women. That said, I had assumed most people had accepted the reality and Squeenix's middle-of-the-road solution (I believe my comment in the thread was hate the undershirt/sports bra look and slightly bigger breasts would've been preferred, though wouldn't matter as much), then an article like this pops up making the whole issue come up again and remind us of the ridiculous reasons that are cited.
Square-Enix, at least honestly just say it as it is. Tifa's breasts aren't going to make or break the game, either way, but at least have the guts to come with something that seems like the truth or preferably is the truth. Or just shut up and wait for it to pass and come with a better excuse next time.