From what we heard earlier, it seemed that the European version of No More Heroes would be censored. Now, publisher Rising Star Games is doing its best to clarify matters, saying that the European version is not censored, and that it shares the same visuals and content as the Japanese version.
"There are two versions of No More Heroes that are going to be published in the West," said Rising Star's Martin Defries. "Ours, which will be drawn down from our parent company, Marvelous Interactive, which is directly from the Japanese iteration of the game, and there will be a version in the US that is a full-on gore, beheadings, dismemberment."
Also, it looks like Marvelous Entertainment and game designer Suda 51 are doing some clean-up work/damage control with this statement:
"First, let me say how honored I am that everyone in Europe is expecting No More Heroes. The sales point of this game is action. Both I and Wada san have concentrated on making the best possible action game for Nintendo Wii.
"We have chosen to release in Europe the same version as has shipped in Japan considering the broadly growing Wii market. We are certain you will definitely enjoy playing it."
[Via Gamesindustry.biz]
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10:44 AM on 12.13.2007
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MY BLOODTHIRSTY AMERICAN HERITAGE DEMANDS IT DAMMIT
Or, maybe it's just the fact that No More Heroes is on the Wii...
At least we don't get as many highschool incidents in Europe, eh! Damn those bloody videogames...
hell i'll still want the game. and laugh my ass off once I slice some random dude's head off.
I think the only major change in the western versions of Killer7 was the robot ghost effect they put on some of the characters voices.
Soo.. what do you call the American version? I'd love to hear the justification these guys come up with for the changes made. "Our research of the North American market and our target audience there, has led to a number of changes. First there will be blood. Lots of it. Also, the main character will gain the ability to kill kittens and strangle whores. We'd like to remind everyone that this, in no way, reflects the nature of the majority of the American public, just the small deviant minority that makes up our target audience." Hmmm... no, doesn't sound quite right.
Or we could, you know... be getting a censored version.
There was that one interview with Suda where he said he wanted to make NMH even more violent than Manhunt 2, so there is no way that the watered down, no-blood version is what represents his "preferred vision".
Both versions look great, just enjoy the damn game.
Actualy, what he said is that it IS censored, since the Japanese version is censored, too, and the European version is the same as the Japanese version.
Either way, I don't really care. I'll still be just as happy with it even if it doesn't have blood in it.