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Post by mrmolecule on Mar 13, 2010 21:17:55 GMT -5
But I'm still surprised how much crap they got into WarioWare. Somewhere there's an article on "Twisted"'s censorship. Can't say I disapprove too much (except the removal of that one of the rice-crushing souvenir)
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Post by Prince~Of~Light on Mar 14, 2010 16:31:00 GMT -5
Gee, the censorship.
Reminds me of the funny thing ya can do Marvelous. (and might have been taken out if it was localized)
In the start of the game, Miss Gina instructs you at using the "point&click hand". If ya touch her chest, she blushes a bit. (Actually there's two pockets, and she says there is nothing on them) Continue on clicking them, and she actually bumps you, looking very scoldful.
There's also one scene in the game where you find a little pool of blood, hinting (falsely) that Miss Gina has been injured by the pirates.
G~, I remember those screens in Made In Ore.
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Post by Grandy02 on Mar 26, 2010 7:56:15 GMT -5
Another religion-related censorship: In Western versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver (not in HG/SS), the Buddhist prayer beads of the Mediums were removed. Source: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/MediumI wonder if the replacement of the Journey to the West microgame in WarioWare: Twisted! also had to do with the appearance of Buddha...
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 26, 2010 8:43:51 GMT -5
Does Nintendo of America even still have a censorship policy regarding religious references in its games? I was under the impression they relaxed on that back in the N64 era when it was obvious they were having their asses handed to them.
Perhaps they're still paranoid about it in certain circumstances - the bead necklace in a Pokemon game is a little redundant for a medium, tying a religion to ideas of ghosts and speaking to the dead... but I wouldn't have thought a Journey to the West microgame would have caused much concern. It's a pretty well-known story, and it's not offensive to Buddhism.
Can you even offend a Buddhist?
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Post by TV Eye on Mar 26, 2010 10:57:57 GMT -5
Well, many religions have prayer beads including Catholicism and Islam. I think the beads were removed because a certain religion might get offended if they thought their practice was being shown in a video game. *cough*Muhammad*cough*
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Post by Grandy02 on Mar 26, 2010 13:17:25 GMT -5
The preview of upcoming Weekly Games for WWDIY in America already reveals the next censorship. This is what the Japanese got: And this is what we'll get: Seeing this, it's still hard to believe that the Twisted! microgame with the stylised naked man producing poop went through uncensored. ;D
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Post by Grandy02 on Apr 5, 2010 13:02:50 GMT -5
Another one for the drug pile, if it hasn't been mentioned yet: The Fishermen in the Japanese version of Pokémon Gold/Silver are seen smoking. Unsurprisingly, the cigarettes were removed in Western localizations. bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fisherman
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Post by porygon on May 16, 2010 23:59:23 GMT -5
How about smokey the crow from Mother?
and in LoZ minish cap, the bar is changed to a milk bar; where people are getting drunk on milk???
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Post by The Qu on May 17, 2010 2:20:30 GMT -5
Well, in the Japanese version of Majora's Mask, it's explained that the milk is laced with liquor. Maybe the same was true in Minish Cap...
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Post by Manspeed on May 17, 2010 11:23:32 GMT -5
So it's basically a bar that specializes in White Russians, eh?
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Post by porygon on May 17, 2010 18:54:10 GMT -5
resisting big lebowski joke.
anyway, what about the cross removal in the mother 2-->earthbound transition? I mean its one thing to remove a religious symbol that might offend someone(i.e. the crescent on the mirror shield) but its another to remove the international symbol for aid. there's all that censorship to mother 1 to earthbound zero too, like unbloodying The gang zombies and dr distorto, removing the cigarettes from the crow and the gang member, taking away teddy's knife, removing crosses, and if that wasnt enough, taking away the reflection on the Female fighting robot's breasts because they looked too much like nipples. and the list goes on
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 18, 2010 3:39:12 GMT -5
I think Mother would be a very good example of censorship, if it wasn't for the fact essentially the whole game was eventually "censored" by not being released.
Some of the changes are still rather bizarre in both that and Earthbound.
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Post by MEGAߥTE on May 19, 2010 20:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by Da Robot on May 21, 2010 18:26:24 GMT -5
Looks like there might be some minor censorship on the DGIX box art between the Euro and NA versions. If you look at the Euro version, the main hero's sword covers up the chest of one of the female characters, but this doesn't happen in the NA version. Pictures and source.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 22, 2010 4:24:36 GMT -5
That might not be down to censorship. The Euro boxart simply looks better because of the way the characters have been framed with the hero dead-centre, and if the characters are limited in space then they'd need moving around a bit.
Why we don't just get Japanese boxart I'll never know. It's almost always way better than the rubbish we get.
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