10 JRPGs You Didn't Know Were Censored
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This is more a list of "games you didn't know existed"
Maybe if you're a tourist to the genre, but at least half of these are familiar to me and I've played at least a couple of them.
Some of them are obscure, but pretending like Fire Emblem a game with 8 fucking Smash characters (and got two before it was even released outside Japan with Melee) is not one of the biggest franchises Nintendo has been milking for the last decade is laughable.
So, a list of random JRPGs from the era when almost any reference to alcohol, tobacco, or religion was censored.
I think if most people made these kind of "comparison charts" for classic games, they'd be astounded at how much worse the censorship was then.
Because right now its politically charged and malicious, but many games back then just had entire stories rewritten from scratch. Not to downplay how bad it is now, but once you see the levels guys like Woolsey went to you realize it was always extreme.
And nothing will ever beat Tales of Phantasia accidentally translating Ragnarok as Kangaroo War and not catching it.
Ted Woolsey worked within a strict set of guidelines and technical constraints and was trying to present an entertaining story. Modern localizers hate what they're doing, hate the people they're doing it for, and are not smart on top of that.
All true, but if you were to just cut any random game he worked on and compared the dialogue side by side with the original text, you'd get a near identical picture as many of these.
"Son of a submariner" would be just as meme'd on as half of the most famously bad ones if it came out today, and we all know it.
Ted wasn't doing it out of malice and was pulling an unknown foreign element into the West, which is why its pretty forgiveable to most people, compared to them desecrating something people already love with gleeful sadism now, but the end result is still extreme censorship.
Emu War II: Hopping Mad
I DWELL AMIDST THE ABOUNDING AUSSIE PLANES, THOU ART AT THE GATE OF THE ABO HUTS
I mean La Pucelle Tactics was basically Cute French Battle Nuns the Game. So not too heavy on the religious censorship on that one.
Only if you dont play JRPGs
And it's an RPG channel, so who exactly is this content for, cause it's titled for normies despite catering to a specific niche. All this tells me is to avoid their channel, they are making slop for casuals, which is how you get to 100k subs these days, making shitty listicles for idiots.
Live A Live wasn’t even released in the west, unless he means the remake.
I know about 80% of those, casual poser
I don't know what this guy's accent is but its literally painful to listen to, even though its otherwise an interesting video.
Also, the Triangle Strategy one will always be hilarious because the entire lore of the game is the majority of the Not-Jews are currently in their Work Camps being forced to mine salt until they literally collapse and die, while everyone basically either justifies it or laughs that they deserve it. Including half of your own characters, despite your wife being one of them.
And you can, thanks to the "democracy" system of making your story choices (a very neat little system) willingly or be forced into supporting that system for most of the game's runtime. Just straight up letting the Not-Muslims have their concentration camps because "well its their country and we need their support/salt, so let's not think about it."
It really feels that the censorship thing was deliberately designed to prevent people from playing the game and making it their entire personality. Because that was basically all the news about it when it came out and so it slipped by entirely (thanks to having a retarded name as well).