History Bowdlerise / Videogames

*** Confirmed. All undead players, [=NPCs=], mobs, monsters, anything that had bones sticking out has been either touched up or completely reskinned for the Chinese market. In addition, the skeletons left behind by dead players are completely removed and replaced with generic tombstones.

* Also, the Japanese berion of the SNES Dracula X had blood. In the America he turned into dust.

** And now we have a new winner: ''Left4Dead 2. Infected'' couldn't be set on fire, thus making incendiary rounds useless, a ''lot'' of the gore was removed, the appearances of Riot uncommon infected were almost non-existent, and nearly all zombies disappeared before they even hit the ground. Yes, [[WallBanger even stuff that was in the previous game was censored]]. [[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?src=/tv/goodgame/video/xml/20091214_2030.xml&item=5 Australian review show 'Good Game' took the mickey out of it]] in one of their [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome finest moments]]

** Even ''more'' pathetically, Riviera actually Bowdlerised ''itself'' once -- in order to keep the game's rating at CERO-A, Sting was forced to remove the bath scenes from the PSP remake. The "special edition" rerelease of the remake put them back in, but clad all the girls in bathing suits -- they were going ''swimming'', not getting naked! The fandom (and even the FanDumb) found this hilarious, as [=CGs=] are still included of the girls panicking when Ein arrives, leading to the meme [[WallBanger "OH NOES! EIN SAW MY CLEAVAGE!"]] It's actually even more funny when you think that it is a remake from a Nintendo platform to a Sony platform.

*** Keep in mind your chief method of making money is to battle other trainers, implicitly betting half your liquid assets on your own victory. [[WallBanger But that's totally okay as long as there are no casinos with nickel slots, or Arceus forbid coins you can outright buy]].

* Let's not forget the first ''ResidentEvil''. The intro FMV in the Japanese version had all the gore. The Western releases were recut and used alternate footage. The PC version and some PAL releases of Director's Cut contain the original FMV.
** Also, Chris Redfield lights up a cigarette in his intro.
* ''{{Earthbound}}'' suffered from edits. For example:
** In ''Mother 2'' (the Japanese version), Porky was spanked by his parents for running off at night.
** Alcohol, religion, and death references were removed.
** Ness was naked with a hat in {{Magicant}}. In the US version, he wore pajamas and no hat, as he did when he got out of bed at the beginning of the game.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' suffered from edits.

*** Later ''Final Fantasies'' continued to face a few editorial axes to stay within the T rating. Notably, ''FFVII'' was localized with Cid and Barret's [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F Bombs]] bleeped over, and the Devour command in ''FFVIII'' was replaced with a RelaxOVision screen.
**** The Devour command's "calming visuals" were the same in Japanese to begin with.

* In the N64 version of ''{{Quake}}'', in accordance with Nintendo's censorship of religious references, the death message "You Visit the Volcano God"(death by lava) became "You Visit the Volcano Maker". Other religious references such as crucifixes were also removed.

* ''DanceDanceRevolution'': "After The Game of Love", due to its IntercourseWithYou lyrics, was made an instrumental in the US series. Same with "Injection of Love".

** Why a muslim would be offended by the use of content from the Koran is beyond this troper. If anything, it seems like it should make them feel good or honored.

* The original versions of "Fever for the Flava" and "Goin' Down On It" by Hot Action Cop had [[IntercourseWithYou extremely naughty lyrics]], so they were heavily censored when they appeared in ''NeedForSpeed: Hot Pursuit 2''. Surprisingly, the clean versions were actually better than the dirty versions.

*** The mermaid's dialogue when returning her item was also changed a bit. In the international version, she tells you to promise you'll only take one scale from her tail. In the Japanese version... well, [[HandsomeLech Link gets called a pervert.]]

** [[TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2]]'s Soldier lampshades this through some of his Domination lines for the (Australian) Sniper:

** Gen 1 had a possessed woman in Lavender Tower telling you to "Give... me... your... soul...". Come the remake, she says to "Give... me... your... all...". Making this funnier and weirder is that another woman, in both versions, says "Give... me... blood..." Remember, violence and blood is fine, but anything remotely religious is wrong!

* The ''[[{{Pokémon}} Pokémon]]'' games have been getting steadily more extreme about this. In the Gen I remakes, for example, the Gamblers became "Gamers" (and thus spouted such gems as "I'm a rambling, gaming dude").

** Both localizations of ''ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' lack decapitations, although you still hear the sound of a head exploding when you get a headshot.

* Because of the unfortunate timing of its release (9/11 unfortunate), MetalGearSolid2 had several scenes from the game removed, such as Vamp explicitly stating that his and Dead Cell's intentions of using the hydrogen bomb are actually quite different than Solidus: specifically, they planned to nuke NYC itself rather than simply cause an EMP wave over Wall Street (the latter of which was Solidus's plan), Liquid Ocelot stating that he set Arsenal Gear's course to Manhattan, the actual crash sequence for Arsenal Gear, Raiden cutting the American Flag and having it drop on Solidus's corpse after he is defeated, and a news report mentioning the Statue of Liberty's new resting place at Ellis Island.

* ''GuitarHero'' and ''RockBand'' are not above editing songs to remove the cussing. If the song has a radio edit, they use that, if not, they cut the word out. The bridge of Down With The Sickness is rendered almost incomprehensible.

** And now we have a new winner: ''Left4Dead 2. Infected'' couldn't be set on fire, thus making incendiary rounds useless, a ''lot'' of the gore was removed, the appearances of Riot uncommon infected were almost non-existent, and nearly all zombies disappeared before they even hit the ground. Yes, [[WallBanger even stuff that was in the previous game was censored]]. [[http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?pres=20091214_2030&story=5 Australian review show 'Good Game' took the mickey out of it]] in one of their [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome finest moments]]

* Pick out a FireEmblem game. Any FireEmblem game. Chances are the HoYay, LesYay, or BrotherSisterIncest implications in various support conversations have been toned down during translation.

* Pick out a FireEmblem game. Any FireEmblem game. Chances are the HoYay, LesYay, or BrotherSisterIncest implications in various support conversations has been toned down during translation. Toned down - not removed entirely. That would be too difficult.

* NoMoreHeroes involves quite a bit of blood when an enemy or 6 die in the American verison. The Japanese version replaces blood with black dust, and the European version got the same thing. However, NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle had blood in both the American and European. This is because Japan is less toleran tof excessive blood in video games. Weird, considering manga.