10 JRPGs You Didn't Know Were Censored
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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.
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