How Resident Evil 2 Is Changed In Different Countries 

it's still a Japanese game tho

@Lewandowski Ahh OK. was thinking actual American games lol

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised especially with the remake of Resident Evil 2 coming.

This is very possible, yes.

@@BLVDKillz Japanese games importing American (and Western games in general) is actually pretty common too. A ton of games either aren't marketed in Japan (especially Xbox games) or are super niche. FPS games and full on violent action games are among the most imported. That and censorship on both ends, case in point, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance for example turning all artificial blood White (even though story-wise it *should* be Red at that point), and RE7 being quite censored in Japan where it comes to gore. RE2Make is gonna be another big one for western importation I feel.

RE2 was released when I was 15 and I remember that there was a huge sign on the games rack of my local electronics store, stating sth like "Please ask manager for RE2". So I returned the other day with my mom and she bought it for me ... I still have this copy until today :D

@@TeppichPilot xD best story *lol* but is your version censored as in the video?? i mean i have a (backup) copy of this game in german...fully uncensored

Yeah instead of censoring games they're just burden germany with millions of immigrants that want free stuff and not work xD Fuck Germany I hope they get what's coming to them.

The germans and the brits screwed gamers in Europe in the 90's with their censorship laws. I think the germans got too sensitive after ww2 lol

@@BlazeABD True, but you also have to keep in mind that not all of the germans want that, just the majority hasn't understood yet what they are doing.

There are countless examples of harder games in the US. Even on the NES days. It`s interesting what Mikami said but there was always another reason, and that was because of the renting videogame market (which didn`t exist in Japan). Games were harder so the player couldn`t finish the game too fast and he had to come back and rent the game again.

I don't know if he's right or wrong, but I have to say, I generally find Japanese games _much_ more engaging, more thought-intensive, more strategic, and more challenging. Western games, when they try to do something similar, often miss the mark. Usually they're too easy or they don't know how to be hard without being enjoyable. Simple example, Dead Space 2 I think it was, its hardcore mode gives you only three saves. I love limited saves, but that's not how you do it. That's a gimmick mode. Bethesda added a hardcore mode to Fallout 4 and it was something like, you can't fast-travel I think? among other things. Just a bunch of stuff that didn't really sound like a good experience. Contrast this with something like Metal Gear Rising. Revengeance is a brutal mode to tackle without upgrades, or just the upgrades from one run. But if you really get your perfect parry timing down, it's often said to be easier than the next difficulty down. Then look at Evil Within. A lot of people don't like it but it's one of my favourites. A lot of people say it's too hard (well, they deflect by saying it's cheap, which it isn't). It's pretty unforgiving, and yet, you can sneak-kill the Traumas, you can one-shot Alpha Amalgam if you can hit it in the eye on its second form, you can blow up a bomb and make an enemy take the damage for you if they block the blast, and there are whole sections you can skip if you think outside the box. Maybe I have the wrong idea based on my own personal experiences, but it seems to me that Japanese developers are the ones that know how to make a hard game feel rewarding to take on, and they can make them _very_ difficult.

Jason Sikes pretty sure they made games harder in the West most of the time because of the popularity of game rentals. Make a game harder, it takes longer to beat, a gamer may just end up buying the game instead of repeatedly renting it. Game rentals have always been non-existent in Japan.

@@CrimsonGear80 I didn't say I agreed with it, but that seemed to be the misconception of westerners to Japanese companies at the time.

would like to see that game on steam and current gen consoles.

games like that makes it easy to take frustration out in games like that because life does not have some thing like games do a reset or replay so I am ok with games like that. if a kid plays it as it goes just make sure they know life is different than games

The North American N64 release also had the blood color options. I think it defaults to green but you can change it to red, purple, and I think blue as well. Reminded me of House of the Dead 2 in arcades, where arcade owners had options to change the blood from red to other colors (most often I saw it changed to green, that's what it was like at the old arcades in my area) in order to avoid getting complaints from parents.

Musou Tensei I played it as a kid and didn’t even know it was a censorship thing I just thought it was cool so I would change the blood to blue.

the arcade version of House of the Dead 2 still had more blood effects than all the home ports of the game, it was probably Columbine that caused Sega to self-censor them

I playing the Dreamcast version and is censored on all regions

Bulls aren’t triggered by red, that’s a myth.

@bacon froyo lmao they’ve done plenty of experiments, bulls can’t even see red because they’re colorblind, it’s grey to them. Get educated.

The same goes for changing all live ammo to lasers. Why does it matter when they all get people killed eventually?

ALAKTORN want a medal for that brah?

ace8656 He just wanted to stroke his ego

kind of like were okay with people being decapitated in games but attractive women's bodies are scary.

Warren Kei Snow You’re aware that Japan literally censors pornography right? But anyways to your point, there’s a difference between covering up scantily clad female characters for children’s cartoons and games and censoring adult rated games. People with anime avatars make the worst posts, I swear.

@@mrniceguy7168 You are correct, we should ban everyone with anime avatars, it clearly causes them to make the worst posts we see in youtube comments.

EpicSonicSkillz His reply was a generic response by weaboos, I knew someone would make that reply when I submitted my post. It’s just passive aggressive horse shit that doesn’t add up.

@@Phantom_binovirex8974 it's hentai,get over it.

Well said, fuck censorship!

Amen

You want to see uncensored turds in Jojo?

@@OniLordMiki Why not? They're just turds, just because they are disgusting doesn't justify by any means they should be censored, the same rule applies to everything.

Not so well researched, as the German language version he showed in the video was never officially released in Germany and only features a PEGI rating instead of a USK one, meaning that's the Austrian/Swiss version for GC. The changes were certainly made with Germany in mind, but the USK basically told them "Nope, still too violent, not rated, illegal, take it away!"

HappyDays 😂

Japan is really strict with its own content, yet they are also very protective or prideful of them and often dislike or flat out don't buy products made outside of Japan, not including Japanese products being produced in say, India or the like. It's a reason why Microsoft tried so hard to push the XBOX in Japan, and so many companies put a good portion of their marketing budget to Eastern Asia. For some reason, western bands and musicians are basically exempt from this social phenomena though. Japan eats western music up like crazy, especially music in or from Germany, North America, or England. Metal band and anything synth/experimental or industrial based especially.

Japan is ass-backwards in most thing's.

@@bio-plasmictoad5311 well at least they aren't afraid of women's breast like in NA.

Pretty common in Japan, and I do mean common.

the japanese Resident Evil 2 remake will be censored 100%. all of the content they showed at japanese press and game shows were censored. there is no other choice, if you want to sell games in japan in regular shops and on consoles, you need the CERO tag. and explicit gore effects, chopped off heads and so on is a no go, even with the highest rating.

How do you know that? Are you Japanese?

I see a lot of people saying stuff like that, but wouldn't Japan have had rental services back then too? (a thus a reason to keep the games difficult in Japan)

The green blood is fine for me.Sorry to say that.

Even better to be a German gamer now. No censorship AT ALL, including sexual content which often get's censored in the US. ;P

@Spike V1under-educated? haha yeah coming from the guy whos country can't figure out what it wants to become. Do you keep eating the table scraps from the EU or do you start thinking for yourselves. Your country is like a sexually confused soy boy.

@@trashaimgamer7822 Wolfenstein's censorship ?

@@tonytucci3231 The fact that you use the term "soy boy" unironically means that you're most likely one of the under-educated he's talking about.

Ouch we found us a soy boy here, stuffs not good man. Turns you in to a pussy@@OniLordMiki

They were turned Into Jews

@@badabingbing474 lmao

One of the most BADASS names ever!

Resident evil sounds cooler

the CERO company is not responsible for tv shows or porn and the age rating system is also different for tv and movies. CERO is only responsible for games that will be sold at regular shops and digital on consoles and the CERO certification is required. you need it. nudity and sex like in Witcher 3 or explicit gore like in Resident Evil 7 / 2 Remake is not allowed in japanese video games.

That’s..... not how you use that word.

just because they create hentai doesn't mean all Japanese like it.

ToshMackins So CERO is the equivalent of the ESRB?

I seriously still don’t understand changing the color to green would make difference are these zombies alien or something?

@@aland7234 also I don't understand why change the color a blood if it's still Gorey. I remember Samurai Jack being pretty gory. Oh wait those were just blood of robots but still the spray of blood for another creature it is still technically blood and gory and I I'm looking at this in a child's perspective because I was a child who watched it and it was considered gory and bloody to me.

You'd be surprised at how many 90s brats remember this game from their childhood.

Mario 2/ "The Lost Levels" is the main source of that honestly. Post-NES, I don't think much of any Japanese games were harder. Devil May Cry 3 original is the most infamous of the cases of the US getting a souped up version because the west complained that the Japanese games at the time were too easy.

@@Valanway Even in the NES days it was grossly uncommon. Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Double Dragon, TMNT, Shatterhand, all were easier in Japan. The only ones that were harder, that I can think of, are Mario 3, Contra and Mega Man 2.

@@DefinitiveDubs *Akumajō Dracula, *Rockman.

You don't even live in Japan you weeb

@@ssjzamza9987 CERO NEEDS TO BE TAKEN DOWN!

Same reason why there are so many stabbings in japan.... Shit just happens.