Unexpected Ultra-Violence in Games

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Count Arioch the 28th
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

Shrapnel wrote:Super Metroid. The Crocomire.

Not only was that gruesome and unexpected, it was terrifying as hell.
Or the homage in New Super Mario Brothers DS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QfKpWaVR4

(skip to 3:50).

Yeah, most of the kids playing this probably wouldn't get the reference...
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Xenosaga 1 had one scene that was pretty vicious that was actually cut from the American release. It wasn't until I was re-playing it in Japanese that I saw the scene and it caught me off guard and gave me the shivers.

Wikipedia wrote:Episode I dealt with the censorship of several cutscenes in the North American release of the game, a majority of which take place during a confrontation between the game's main villain and another character. This was done presumably to avoid any possibilities of the title receiving an ESRB M rating. A scene involving an arm being snapped was softened for the North American version. In another scene of noticeable censorship, a character draws out a knife, which he uses to cut off his arm and head. For Western release he simply rips off his limbs without the use of a knife. A scene where a character draws out information by "reaching inside" another character was also altered; instead, he simply puts his hand over her face in the North American version.
It felt like a pretty significant edit, since it really made the main villain (Albeido) seem much more vile and crazy than the American version. Or at least, emphasized how much of a toy the clones he was torturing were to him - the arm breaking in the scene above was a 'just because he could' move, for example.

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Akiosama wrote:Xenosaga 1 had one scene that was pretty vicious that was actually cut from the American release. It wasn't until I was re-playing it in Japanese that I saw the scene and it caught me off guard and gave me the shivers.


It felt like a pretty significant edit, since it really made the main villain (Albeido) seem much more vile and crazy than the American version. Or at least, emphasized how much of a toy the clones he was torturing were to him - the arm breaking in the scene above was a 'just because he could' move, for example.

My 2 yen,

Akiosama
For those who want to see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aNMNh0sHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtG_7bhyM4
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, holy crap. Firmly PG-rated game with purely cartoon violence... then you get to a warehouse full of (thankfully sepia-toned out) dinosaur corpses. But then you see an end-level boss graphically mutilating a dinosaur with a cleaver.

Also, Tecmo Knight. Sounds like a cute game and even looks like it at first, but you graphically mutilate enemy sprites and the intro shows a guy getting his arm torn off and someone chomping right into his head.

Also, whose fucking idea was it to put Mortal Kombat-style fatalities in Samurai Shodown?
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Not exactly ultra-violence, but quite a shock anyway. SWAT4.

You spend missions after missions throwing flashbangs, asking people to surrender, shooting them when they try to shoot (or in my case, shooting them first with beanbags rounds/taser and then asking them to surrender) and handcuffing everyone. It's a SWAT simulator, no place for story or drama.

Then you've got one of the most difficult mission in a bank with well-trained, heavily armed and armored enemies. And then you get a far easier mission with a crazy sect that's about to commit mass suicide. There are more bad guys but they're not as well trained and they've got no protection. And then
You enter the cave of the building, and find the graves of the children they "sent to heaven" first.
Totally unexpected, and quite shocking.
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