Capcom Confirms Resident Evil Village Will Be Heavily Censored In Japan

Resident Evil Village will feature no decapitations, less blood, and fewer controversial scenes in Japan to comply with CERO standards.

[ScootaKuH]

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

[dead_pixels]

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.

[VenomUK]

I didn't know that Japan censors horror.

[Double_O_Revan]

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.

[NecrumOddBoy]

@Venom,

Odd... since Japan is a huge contributor to popular horror genres since Juon and Ringu.

[anubusgold]

Japans government does this crap while their politicians have ties to the Yakuza just like the Japanese banks.

[roadkillers]

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.

Super hyped for 8!

[Silly gameAr]

Damn, I didn't see that death. I might have to give RE7 another run through before 8.

[NecrumOddBoy]

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.

[roadkillers]

@necrum

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

[annoyedgamer]

Ours are butchered too. Imagine if all our games were imported from Tokyo. About half if not more would get banned for social impropriety

[ShadowWolf712]

Nah, they usually drop an "Adults Only" version that can be bought there, which is just the version we get over here. Just not in... "normal" venues.

[ShadowWolf712]

I'm not kidding, btw.

https://www.dualshockers.co...

[badz149]

Here before somebody turns this into Sony's fault

[RPGer]

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

[ManMarmalade]

Art shouldn't be censored

[gleepot]

thats the stupidest reasoning people always spout out

[senorfartcushion]

This is what the entire games industry will be doing soon. Blockbuster movie-type stuff.

[Snookies12]

@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.

[ScootaKuH]

Yup. I don't agree with censorship. If you don't like it, don't watch/play/listen to it. Censorship is essentially making people's choices for them

[Aussiesummer]

So art depicting say paedophilia and rape, should that be censored?

[Snookies12]

@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.

[anubusgold]

@ScootaKuH movies get away with it stop treating games different.

[Kabaneri]

So the rest of the world can enjoy Japanese media but Japan gets the censored versions? Seems backwards.

[ManMarmalade]

They've censored certain fatalities in MK in the past. I think Kabal's was specifically banned in Australia? That was years ago though.

[ManMarmalade]

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.

[FPS_D3TH]

Sounds like copium from a culture known for high censorship

[CrimsonWing69]

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.

[gamerben]

Japan censors violence, america censors sexual content. It's always been this way too

[ManMarmalade]

What are you talking about? The japanese are notorious for pixelating genitalia.

[sourOG]

Wow that sucks. I thought Japan was all about weird shit, is this new?

[AnotherGamer]

When it comes to video games, censor over there still think video games are for kids and such.

[sourOG]

Ahh ok

[badz149]

Nintendoland. What else do you expect?

[Tacoboto]

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.

[The_Sage]

I don't know... They even sensor their porn. No problem buying underwear from vending machines though.

[specialguest]

Out of all of the weird stuff they have, they censor their porn. Wth is that sh*t?? Lol

[Gatsu]

US censor tits and ass, while Japan usually censor gore.

[sourOG]

US censors everything now lol. Dr Seuss just got banned, that’s how far we’ve dipped into clown world.

[franwex]

I always figured they are into weird crap due to their censorship.

[sourOG]

You’re probably right lol

[galmi]

well this censoring is weird shit

[TriniOutsider]

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.

[dead_pixels]

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.

[DefaultComment]

The double standards of Japan, Gore and violence is censroed but sexual content or theme is not.

[S2Killinit]

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.

[dumahim]

Have you looked at porn from Japan? It's pretty hard to find anything that isn't censored.

[MasterChief3624]

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.

[dumahim]

Guess you need to get creative when you can't get what you want.

[DoubleYourDose]

Not that you would know. Haha. Too funny.

[badz149]

We believe your innocence. Wink wink

[ManMarmalade]

Haha tentacle weiners

[TheColbertinator]

All this Western censorship is...oh wait

[gold_drake]

this happens quite alot in japan. with all of their media quite honestly.

but theres a possibility of an "uncut" version to come out after some time the base game came out.

[DazaMc]

All the old 2D games had way more blood in Japan. What's going on?

[dumahim]

I think the console censorship stuff really came around in the early 2000s.

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

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.

[DivineHand125]

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.

[Plagasx]

lol

[_LarZen_]

Censorship is for the weak.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

If you play on PC you can just wait for mods to fix that :D

[Pego]

As long as it's in Japan, I'm fine.

[SmoothC911]

What a shame for Japan. Thank goodness I live in the US, where we only censor Dr. Suess books and Mandalorian actors!

Oh, wait a minute...

[DoubleYourDose]

And french fries.

[SmoothC911]

Agreed, the nonsense comes from both directions for sure

[akaFullMetal]

This isn't something new with game releases in Japan.

[ZombieGamerMan]

America: Violence good boobies bad
Japan: Boobies good violence bad

Me: Somewhere a middle ground exist

[ZeekQuattro]

Makes me think back to RE 4 in Japan. Blood and dismemberments were cut among other things.

[PigPen]

Look out ponies, bet your butt Playstation 5 will be censored too.

[TrueViper]

They should just blur it out like 90 percent of their porn 🤣

[Azurite]

Thought this was already confirmed with how censored the demo was.

[Acecalibur]

Japan has created some of the most violent and goriest media in the world. What happened?

[Kaze88]

You can have half naked 12 year old 40m anime girl commercial on the street with big anime tiddies but oh no if there is anything shown in R rated game you need to cencor that shit xDDDDD

[VTKC]

Wait a minute. It's a game made from Japan. And they have to censor it? So does that mean it will be released in other countries before Japan gets the edited version of their own game? Or are they working backwards by adding the censored parts in? This is so weird. I wonder how censored Mortal Kombat games are for them. You know with all the blood spewing out and body parts hacked and pulled off. I know they don't have decapitations and missing limbs. Crash Bandicoot had to have extra fifth finger edited in. But monster tentacles raping girls and ripping them to pieces is ok by them.

[Xwin]

Japanese are smart, they know how to use VPN or a US account.