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Aerozord
03-03-2005, 04:50 PM
I was just reading my EGM and I was rather suprised. Japan the land where they have animated sex and gore that puts most US rated-R movies to shame is getting the censored Resident Evil 4. While the US is getting the uncut decapitating version.

Am I the only one that finds this odd?
VA_Ninja
03-03-2005, 04:54 PM
Japan gets the censored version? What the hell? Isn't this the same country that has half their video game outlets devoted to hentai dating sims?

Maybe it's because of some Japanese custom about a certain type of violence in the game.
lordofstuff
03-03-2005, 04:56 PM
hmm... that IS odd... maybe they only accept drawn extreme gore. its probably some culture thing, or they dont like graphic images of the living dead...
CHICAGO¤lollie
03-03-2005, 05:03 PM
Take that, Japanese Video Game Industry! Now you'll know what it's like to get a game that's missing vital gaming content!
Aerozord
03-03-2005, 05:04 PM
the main edit is decapitation. I would say more, but that might ruin the awsome
Karrrrrrrrrrrresche
03-03-2005, 05:22 PM
maybe the japanese govt's devoleped a t virus and dont want there people thinking the fact tha there dead uncle walking down the street is a bad thing.
Viktor Von Russia
03-03-2005, 05:30 PM
hmm... that IS odd... maybe they only accept drawn extreme gore. its probably some culture thing, or they dont like graphic images of the living dead...

Or maybe they enjoy watching violence and gore, but don't like pretending to inflict said violence.
Cybren
03-03-2005, 05:58 PM
I've also heard the american version of DMC3's normal mode is the Japanese' hard mode.
How strange. The same japanese industry didn't give us the real SMB2 because it was 'too hard'
Kikuichimonji
03-03-2005, 06:23 PM
I believe it. Japanese art (at least mass-produced, such as Magic cards) can't have skeletons in the pictures. Japan has heavy censors on violence for social and safety reasons. And hentai DOES have to be censored in Japan. Even so, their regulations on pornographic things is not as strong compared to violence because they have their shit together - they realize a kid going out and killing people because of violent media is worse than a person watching some porn.
Radsquire
03-03-2005, 08:14 PM
Do you know if anything else was cut from the game? The Novistador's acid bath attack might be worthy. Was decapitation removed from the Japanese version of the REmake? Because it was in that game as well.
Kikuichimonji
03-03-2005, 08:31 PM
Anything that reveals bones is undoutably censored. So the body probably just boils completely away, rather than revealing the skull.
tazz31406
03-05-2005, 12:17 AM
I didn't see that coming. By the way, when I first saw Leon get his head sawed off, in full view, with exquisite, gory detail; I nearly pissed myself. I was so suprised they showed that in America. The land where a paperclip is considered a deadly weapon!! And they're not showing it in Japan!! What the hell? I can't help but wonder if someone screwed something up.