Today we'll be taking a look at Super Castlevania IV, a game that is commonly cited by critics
as one of the best games of all time and, also, the first Castlevania title released
for Nintendo's SNES system.
Super Castlevania IV, as well as other Castlevania games released for the SNES, and earlier NES,
received numerous censorship changes when released outside of Japan.
This video will be taking a look at these changes and How Super Castlevania IV Was Censored
Outside Japan.
The first change made to the game can be spotted right when booting up the game on the title
screen.
It is only in the Japanese version on the left where you will be able to see a puddle
of blood at the bottom of the screen and blood dripping from above.
When the screen then finishes panning up, you'll see that this blood is coming from
the game's logo and that the English version on the right was completely redesigned.
The next screen, the game's intro, also faced changes overseas and this sets the scene for
a lot of other changes that were made to the game.
If you notice, you can see a cross at the top of the grave, as well as on other graves
in the background.
These crosses were removed due to Nintendo of America's strict policy at the time against
showing religious themes in games, due to not wanting to offend Western audiences.
With the exception of a single instance, all crosses in the game were removed outside of
Japan.
Also, rather interestingly, if you look closely you'll be able to see that the English version
removed the English text displayed on the grave.
The text is supposed to say Dracula but instead the L has been replaced with an R.
This is due to the Japanese language not having the "L" sound in their language and that it
can be hard for them to distinguishing between the L and R sounds.
And so, this type of mistake is extremely commonly made in Japanese media, as well as
real life.
Another cross was removed from the top of the password screen and also, if you look
just above the cross, you'll see that a religious figure was removed as well.
A few more examples of removed crosses include the crosses in the background of the stables
section of the first level.
The coffin enemies that can be found in various levels were also redesigned so that the cross
across the front of the casket was removed.
And then the graveyard section of the second level had all crosses on the graves removed
as well.
These are only just a few examples though, as remember, all crosses were removed outside
of Japan with the exception of only a single instance.
This exception is the Rosary special item, which, when used, destroys all enemies on
screen.
It's not known why this was for some reason missed when all other crosses were removed.
Moving away from the religious changes though and on to some more changes to blood.
In the Japanese version on the left, you'll be able to not only see that the pits of liquid
are red blood but that there is also red blood on the spikes coming from the ceiling as well.
In the English version on the right, all blood as been changed to green throughout the entire
dungeon level.
That's about it for the extent of red blood in the Japanese version of the game though,
with it being kept quite tame even in the Japanese version.
That's not all however for the changes to the Western version of the game.
Alongside blood and religious references, some slight artistic nudity was altered as
well.
A nude statue in level 6 was made to cover up outside of Japan, due to Nintendo feeling
this was too inappropriate for younger audiences.
Strangely, the Medusa boss battle was not altered in the West.
Here Medusa is depicted completely topless and Medusa has actually been censored various
times in other games in the series, due to this very reason.
In the previous game, Castlevania 3, for example, Medusa had her chest size noticeable toned
down outside of Japan.
So it's not known why this element was left intact in the English version.
That's all for Super Castlevania IV though but, as mentioned, this was far from the only
game in the series to get changes outside of Japan.
If regional differences like this are something you are interested in and want to see more
of, then please consider leaving a comment below and hitting that subscribe button and,
until next time, thank you for watching.
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