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[Shard]

Well, this is certainly a change from the norm.

 

[Bebpo]

Well, this is certainly a change from the norm.

Hey, Shinobi and Kunoichi are completely censored in Japan too! (no people being hacked to pieces with blood).

I was talking to Duckroll about this and besides Ninja Gaiden there really aren't any Japanese games with full decapitation or loss of body parts in the last few years. Most Japanese action games just have the enemies bleed and fall down. This may all be a reaction to the various publicized murders by children or teens over the last 10 years.

 

[SantaC]

Hey, Shinobi and Kunoichi are completely censored in Japan too! (no people being hacked to pieces with blood).

I was talking to Duckroll about this and besides Ninja Gaiden there really aren't any Japanese games with full decapitation or loss of body parts in the last few years. Most Japanese action games just have the enemies bleed and fall down. This may all be a reaction to the various publicized murders by children or teens over the last 10 years.

In America gore is ok, but sex is taboo. So it's quite the opposite in Japan? Being euro myself I don't know.

 

[Mzo]

Japanese gamecube + living in Japan where only the Japanese RE4 is available at stores.

My bad, playa, I misunderstood your situation by skimming the thread.

And yeah, I watched some japanese porn last night, and that shit was FUCKED UP. Torture, abuse, and rape are big over there.

 

[Miburou]

What about both Berserk games?

Anyway, didn't some of the previous RE games have green blood instead of red? I guess then it's not surprising they'd censor RE4. Anyway, sorry man.

I'm curious to know how they'll handle what Dark mentioned. Keep us updated once you get further along in the game.

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One of the best moments in the game is when at close range you blast a villager's head clean off, and he continues walking towards you, and you're not sure whether he'll simply fall down or sprout tenatcles and kick the crap out of you

 

[Meier]

I really am curious how they'll handle the parasites then.

 

[Bebpo]

What about both Berserk games?

We'll it seems more like violence against people. I mean Nanobreaker came out on the same day as RE4 and that game is all about cutting monsters in half. Berserk PS2 actually didn't have any human body part slicing. The closest was ogre in human armor.

Keep us updated once you get further along in the game.

Maybe someone else can, but I stopped playing the game and just ordered the US one + freeloader already. Maybe I'd play it after the US one to see the changes, but I don't want my first experience of the game to be downplayed with cuts and changes :\

 

[JJConrad]

I really am curious how they'll handle the parasites then.

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Don't the acid parasite actually come out through the mouth, the the person's head pulled back like the hood of a sweatshirt. Perhaps they do that for all of them now?

 

[ImNotLikeThem]

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Don't the acid parasite actually come out through the mouth, the the person's head pulled back like the hood of a sweatshirt. Perhaps they do that for all of them now?

no i think with those, the head is pretty much just hanging on the back of the neck by a flap of skin, because the head is almost all the way touching thier back when that happens. it'll still be interesting though to see what they do...

 

[fennec fox]

I see it already got more or less confirmed, but I interviewed the producer a little while back and he did mention the changes y'all talked about here as something for the Japanese marketplace. I don't know about Europe, but I don't think that one will be censored, as it wasn't mentioned.

One interesting thing: In Easy mode,

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the bits where you control Ashley are apparently from behind her back just like Leon's.

 

[MomoPufflet]

At the beginning of the game, during the part when you meet the first crazed villager, it's impossible to headsplode any of the enemies because their bodies don't disappear (try using the handcannon at the beginning to test this). If you've played anywhere past that point though I don't know if there's any explaination other than that it's censored.

Get the US version if you can. After beating it several times and unlocking everything the only thing that'll keep you playing is the joy of the gore. You'll also probably end up wanting to kill yourself if you're unable to balloon-burst heads with the handcannon (pretty much the whole point of going through the trouble to unlock it).

 

[Lyte Edge]

March 10th for Japan.

Interesting; Shadow Of Rome was originally intended for "Western Audiences" only IIRC. But no telling if the game will be censored in Japan. After all, it's on the PS2, not "teh kiddie" GC.

You could always get the U.S. Shadow Of Rome instead. Comes out 2/8 in the States.

 

[Lyte Edge]

I see it already got more or less confirmed, but I interviewed the producer a little while back and he did mention the changes y'all talked about here as something for the Japanese marketplace. I don't know about Europe, but I don't think that one will be censored, as it wasn't mentioned.

One interesting thing: In Easy mode,

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the bits where you control Ashley are apparently from behind her back just like Leon's.

It's like that in the U.S. version, too. How else would it be?

 

[dark10x]

It's like that in the U.S. version, too. How else would it be?

That's what I'd like to know. The camera, in my case, was the same as always.

 

[Wario64]

One interesting thing: In Easy mode,

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the bits where you control Ashley are apparently from behind her back just like Leon's.

That's in the US version. It sounds like you're implying that one version had that part of the game using fixed cameras...?

 

[chespace]

That's what I'd like to know. The camera, in my case, was the same as always.

That's something they changed from even the review builds that GMR and EGM played. In those builds, the Ashley sequence was played/controlled like the old RE games (human tank, fixed camera).

 

[Sein]

That's something they changed from even the review builds that GMR and EGM played. In those builds, the Ashley sequence was played/controlled like the old RE games (human tank, fixed camera).

I don't understand why people distinguish the old Resident Evil games on the basis of their tank-like control scheme. Resident Evil 4 has the same setup. Only the position of the camera has changed.

 

[fennec fox]

Well, I'll be darned. Good thing I didn't review it for any mag or anythin'.

 

[Sagitario]

I don't understand why people distinguish the old Resident Evil games on the basis of their tank-like control scheme. Resident Evil 4 has the same setup. Only the position of the camera has changed.

Maybe because it works now and it feels different?

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I don't understand why people distinguish the old Resident Evil games on the basis of their tank-like control scheme. Resident Evil 4 has the same setup. Only the position of the camera has changed.

Same buttons being pressed to cause the same actions but being displayed in a different way means the relationship between button presses and screen view is different. Significantly so in this case.

 

[Yusaku]

So what happens when you let

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the chainsaw guy reach you? I guess he doesn't decapitate you now?

 

[Greenpanda]

I can't wait for the fantards to start claiming that this makes the Japanese version morally superior and better than the uncultured Amelican version, even though they'd be up in arms if gore was cut from any other version.

 

[NotMSRP]

You mispelled American.

 

[isamu]

You can only perform the suplex when they're on their knees like they are about to give Leon the biggest blowjob in his life!

Holy fuck I just spat out my drink reading that! :lol :lol :lol :lol