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PR: Mugen Souls is Now Shipping to Retailers Across North America!

Notice: Due to the sensitive nature of some content, NIS America has decided to edit certain aspects of this title for its North American and European releases.

Not familiar with the title, but ordered it anyway cause I liked what I saw.

Anybody know what was edited out.

Yeah I would like to know it too. I did some investigation, NIS did said this back in March of this year according to this Siliconera article. They didn't state what was offensive in there they had to edit out, if it's somethig that could offend religious people I can understand, if it's something that promote pedophilia, I don't know what to say.

I did some reading, an editorial at ThoseGuys believes it to be a hot springs mini game and the associated cut scenes for it. I can live with that, not much of a fan for mini games anyway.

Yeah, the Europe release (which came out a month earlier) confirms it was the loli bathing parts that was edited out. Basically, you rubbed down the female party members (including the lolis) to get them stat ups or something. That was taken out because NISA was worried it would get an AO rating due to that.

I believe Fallout 3 had one mission removed for the Japanese version due to sensitivity.

mdo7 wrote:

I believe Fallout 3 had one mission removed for the Japanese version due to sensitivity.

Correct. An early mission in the game allows multiple paths and moral choices, one of which allows the spoiler[detonation of an atomic device in one of the games towns]. The game was threatened with a ban in Japan outright unless it was removed, so the mission no longer allowed that option in the Japanese localization. The impact is actually pretty significant if you're someone that likes playing all paths as that choice in that mission is a major gateway towards the evil path in the game if you choose to go that route with your character.

That’s a fair statement. In terms of actually altering content, how much have you had to do? I can imagine... Well, didn’t Fallout 3 get a Z rating in Japan? (Considered more extreme than the ESRB’s M rating, because many stores won’t carry games with a Z.)

TT: Yeah, it got a Z rating. We almost didn't get rated. [laughs]

Right, because you can kill civilians and stuff like that.

TT: Well, you still can. But the biggest issue was the "Power of the Atom" mission. You blow up the bomb, and blow up the whole town. That part, we had to cut.

So, you had to cut it entirely?

TT: Yeah. The mission is still there, but there are always two routes to the missions. We had to close that part of the mission. But we kept a lot of the decapitations in. The only alterations we made was that part and also humans... Human decapitations we had to cut. Mutants and ghouls and all that are still there.