Seems it. Even though I realize this is hardly the first RE game to get a similar treatment in Japan, it’s always disheartening whenever companies make these announcements. These regulations are so senseless.
I find it very strange too, considering the game is, you know, Made in Japan. I get that they make the game for a worldwide audience. It's just hard to wrap my head around. They make a game, but can't really play 'that' game. They're stuck with a watered down version.
You know, a lot of the time I would say whatever. There's a bunch of games that go over the top for no reason. After speedrunning RE7 for the fourth time, I really appreciate some of the deaths.
There is one, if you try to grab the key and unlock the crawl space while Jack is chasing you. He will throw you down, cut off you foot with a shovel, and crouch in the corner watching you crawl around. You can pickup your own foot, but I believe you bleed out or he ends you.
If you try to get under the latch before he breaks through the walk, he catches you and cuts off your leg which you can pick up. Then he gives you a health bottle and taunts you as you put it back on and heal it. From there the chase continues as normal. It's sort of a small bonus scene and it can happen again in the second Jack boss fight. If you take too long with your leg off, you'll die I think. RE7 was such an incredible game; even despite the last two chapters.
I also saw on YouTube, one of the bigger molded can slice your leg off. It's basically the same animations and dialog. Maybe, the game gives you a couple of changes to trigger that event. Could be 100% missable. Would of been a fun trophy.
Wow, didn't see that part. He taunts you with a health bottle? That's some next level cruelty! Ethan got beat up so bad in this game... Screw driver through the hand, chainsaw cutoff his hand, leg can be cutoff and re-attached, and so many others. I hope this one is as creative and the characters are as memorable
Japanese gamers are far friendier than the westerners with such changes and such rules. Even in anime they don't mind cuts and less gore, which westerners fans always whine about.
@gleepot - Nothing stupid about it. It's stupid to say otherwise.
How about we censor Mortal Kombat with no blood or gore. Sound fun? What about God of War toned down, to just be a fun journey with your son without any killing, and not too much action as that might be construed as 'too violent' and need to be cut as well. Let's have Grand Theft Auto where you can only use your own car, and you can't run red lights or harm anyone in any way.
Like ManMarmalade said. Art shouldn't be censored. Don't care if it's a book, a movie, a show, a game or even a picture.
@Aussiesummer - As always, people go for the worst possible things to try and prove a point. No, even that should not be censored. Reality check, my guy. It's disgusting. It's sick, but those things happen in the real world all the time. I wouldn't touch it, and most others wouldn't either. But it doesn't give me or you the right to say it should be altered if it's the vision of the creator. Avoid it if it's not something you can handle. For instance, I don't like those 18+ lewd Visual Novel type games. Yet I've defended people who were getting attacked for enjoying them. Censorship as a whole is a bad thing. Stop trying to defend it. And don't jump to the most extreme things you can think of just to try and prove some morally righteous point that will only hurt media as a whole.
Take it from me who has been designing and making my own traditional art for 26 years. Art should not be censored. All of these people making games are working their asses off animating, using motion capture, designing characters and worlds, etc. You think they want their vision to be washed out with censorship? No. I was taking courses for 3d modeling and animation back in 2016. It took me weeks to perfect my 30 second animation of a pixar lamp jumping and turning through obstacles. I also did everything literally by myself. I wouldn't want any of my hard work to go to waste just because my professor didn't like something in my video and wants an adjustment or a removal of certain parts of it. You are taking away from an artist's dedication and hard work when it is their livelihood. And especially during this pandemic when many artists can't do much besides wait till this all blows over, and me being one of the unlucky ones doing exactly that.
Yea censorship sucks. Why wouldn’t people complain about it? I don’t like having someone choose what content I can see just because of people who are sensitive. If the original work doesn’t contain extreme content then that’s fine, it’s only frustrating when it does include that content but gets censored.
It’s also the reason I hate watching movies on cable. I hate when they dub over swear words and edit scenes or flat-out omit scenes. Bottom line is censorship sucks.
Porn with the naughty bits gets censored out, but cartoon porn and anime body pillows, bring it on. Caught with marijuana or, god forbid, coke? You're canceled from existence. Japan is kinda like the US south; they're puritans until you see just how raunchy that internet search history is.
Did you just learn Japan existed today? Censoring games or porn have been going on in Japan for literally years. The CERO, if I am not mistaken has been around for about 2 decades now. Yet somehow you default to woke. It seems people just throw around the woke word without even knowing what they are talking about.
Why are some of you acting surprised?. Resident Evil 7 was censored as well over there. A lot of games are censored over in Japan. Last of Us 2 was a big one as well.
I don't know if people are as much surprised as they are tired of such draconian regulations. For me, feels super surreal that we're still dealing with the same weird censorship issues we saw with Mortal Kombat nearly 30 years ago.
Well, it's the other way around in the western countries, sexual content or theme is censored but gore and violence are not. Oh, except for TloU2 because a certain group of people don't mind it lol
I think from a societal perspective violence should be censored before sex is. But we have too many conservative people here who are ok with violence but not sexuality. I dont like censorship for anything personally, but that is because like the majority, I feel I am responsible enough not to be affected by it and take it in moderation. Unfortunately, there is no denying that we do have a problem with a culture of violence here. People here are too quick to resort to aggression. “Get off my lawn with a shotgun in hand” is sort of thing that is not imaginable elsewhere. Guy yelling like a lunatic at subway attendant for telling him to wear a mask is indicative of a bigger problem. But here we are.
So, I like my video games uncensored, but we should think about what can be done about our culture of violence as well. Maybe education for parents be responsible? Not sure if that’s been working or even attempted yet.
Japan's censorship stuff is so strange. Censor genitals in pornography, but have some of the most twisted pornography out there... Not that I would know.
I believe most of this stems from a 2014 bill passed in the Diet (Japanese parliament) that builds upon a 2011 bill, the details of which I’m not fully knowledgeable about, bearing in mind my Japanese isn’t nearly good enough for me to not be at the mercy of what limited information on the subject is available in English. Said bill has allegedly had a significant impact on what is acceptable, and what isn’t acceptable in media distributed in Japan.
Do not quote me on any of this. It’s a subject that I was interested in at some point, but the scraps of information I could find weren’t exactly peer reviewed/scholarly.
Idk how much of the game will be left since they torture people in the cellar and chop of body parts to drain their blood into wine barrels. At least this is the impression I got from the demo.
Poor Japan. Their games are going to be butchered. No pun intended.
I guess if they want to see the games as per the original vision they'll have to import
Japanese gamers are far friendier than the westerners with such changes and such rules. Even in anime they don't mind cuts and less gore, which westerners fans always whine about.
Edit: typo
Wow that sucks. I thought Japan was all about weird shit, is this new?
Has Japan become woke?!
Why are some of you acting surprised?. Resident Evil 7 was censored as well over there. A lot of games are censored over in Japan. Last of Us 2 was a big one as well.