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Post by kirbychu on May 22, 2010 5:18:09 GMT -5
It's definitely censorship. The angle of the sword's blade has been changed to perfectly block the boobs. If you look at the guy's hands compared to the angle of the blade, it looks completely wrong.
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Post by Spud on May 22, 2010 11:26:46 GMT -5
It's definitely censorship. The angle of the sword's blade has been changed to perfectly block the boobs. If you look at the guy's hands compared to the angle of the blade, it looks completely wrong. But, it only blocks one.  The sword angle looks changed to match-up with the girl on the right's hand. |
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Post by kirbychu on May 22, 2010 17:06:05 GMT -5
It blocks over half of the general boobs area.  It's the only explanation that makes sense to me. I don't see why they'd mangle the official art like that to make the sword match up with supporting character #3's raised arm (which it still doesn't, in any case). |
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 22, 2010 18:04:34 GMT -5
Looking at them, the hero in the US version is off-centre, which looks weird, and the other characters have been arranged in the background behind. If you pushed the hero into the centre then the arrangement of background characters (and other elements) wouldn't fit in the same way, so they shifted the characters about a bit.
I'm fairly positive this is simply a layout issue and they're not intentionally trying to cover up the boobs. Anyone who has put together a compilation drawing will know there's a lot of jiggery-pokery when it comes to arranging the characters so they all fit AND it looks good.
And the US boxart does not look good.
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Post by kirbychu on May 23, 2010 3:25:44 GMT -5
Well, maybe. But the EU version's rubber sword looks much worse to me. If it was just a layout issue, then I can only imagine that whoever designed it warped the angle of the blade because he thought that being able to see the tip of the sword was more important than the sword looking like a functional sword. Which means it was a pretty crap artist, which means they're not likely to know anything about layout anyway. It seems more likely to me that whoever made it was asked by the publisher to do something to make the boobs less visible. |
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Post by MEGAߥTE on May 25, 2010 18:14:59 GMT -5
This reminds me that there should be a whole page covering Angry Kirby.
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Post by The Qu on May 25, 2010 18:37:16 GMT -5
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Post by MEGAߥTE on May 25, 2010 23:40:46 GMT -5
Hmm, looks like Europe has gotten a mix of both.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 26, 2010 3:48:01 GMT -5
Haha, we're lucky we get any Kirby games at all! We get them around 1-2 years after the US, so I imagine they just chuck out whatever they can, happy boxart or not  |
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Post by Prince~Of~Light on May 26, 2010 5:36:52 GMT -5
Haha, we're lucky we get any Kirby games at all! We get them around 1-2 years after the US, so I imagine they just chuck out whatever they can, happy boxart or not Just being wiff ya in this one.Waiting KSSU was a pain in the ass. (-l_l-) |
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Post by kirbychu on May 26, 2010 13:19:16 GMT -5
I really didn't think we were getting KSSU. That took forever.
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Post by Grandy02 on Jun 4, 2010 13:35:34 GMT -5
Another religious censorship I stumbled upon at Bulbapedia: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/SageThey changed the pose of the trainer class Sage (Monk in Japan) in Gold/Silver/Crystal. Interestingly, the Sage's prayer bead was removed in the Korean release of HeartGold/SoulSilver, but NOT in Western localisations. |
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Post by The Qu on Jun 4, 2010 13:40:58 GMT -5
The Koreans probably know them for what they are- Buddhist prayer beads. To Westerners, they vaguely look like Rosaries, but that wouldn't make any sense for them. Hence their non-censored status.
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Post by Grandy02 on Jun 4, 2010 14:11:14 GMT -5
Just found another one, which might fall under "sexuality" this time: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/SwimmerThe female Swimmers are winking in the Japanese versions of Gold/Silver/Crystal, but not in localisations (probably too "suggestive"). Also, the swim briefs (Speedos) of the male swimmers in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver got changed to shorts in the international releases. |
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Post by TV Eye on Jun 4, 2010 14:12:41 GMT -5
More censorship in Heartgold and Soulsilver would involve the male swimmers. In the Japanese version they are wearing speedos (like they always do) but in international versions they have on longer surfer shorts. Wow, we posted that at the same time, huh?
Also the slots were censored out and replaced with Voltorb flip.
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