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00:00 Complete this final task and the past that consumes you will be forgiven.
00:04 Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we'll be looking at all the times God of War got a little too risque for some regions.
00:12 Mainly just Europe and Japan. Did you find any of these censors surprising? Let us know down in the comments.
00:18 Oh, thank the gods you've come. Break these bones. Get me out of here!
00:23 Dismemberment
00:26 *Groaning*
00:28 One would think a number of regions would find God of War grotesque enough to where the game would be banned or heavily
00:35 censored across a multitude of regions. However, most of the world was fine with the number of separated limbs and red fountains.
00:42 Japan on the other hand was not.
00:45 Any and all dismemberment was removed in the Japanese version mostly because of CERO.
00:51 That's C E R O. The ratings board for Japan and their stance on the player doing violent actions.
00:58 It probably didn't help that most of God of War's violence is inflicted upon humans and human-like characters.
01:04 Speaking of humans...
01:07 Ten years, Athena. I have faithfully served the gods for ten years.
01:11 Civilian harm.
01:18 One of the segments in Athens sees Kratos fighting a cyclops while denizens panic and run amok.
01:24 Screaming their lungs out. Though they don't bring much to the table, Kratos can grab them to earn a small amount of health.
01:31 The same applies when traveling on the road to Athens.
01:34 Once again, CERO was not for this part of the game. While the levels themselves were untouched,
01:40 the ability to off the citizens for your own personal gain was axed.
01:45 *Kratos and Athena fighting*
01:51 Dem bones.
01:54 Brothers, put aside the petty grievances that have splintered us for so long.
02:00 We will unite.
02:03 God of War 3 is arguably the most gruesome entry in the franchise, if not Ascension, but that's besides the point.
02:10 You would think this would lead to a large number of censors plastered all over the game in some areas.
02:16 On the contrary, many of the brutal scenes are left untouched, except for two.
02:21 One of those two involves how some unalived people have their bones protruding from their limbs.
02:28 The Japanese version has the bones completely removed though. Just the bones.
02:33 Corpses are fine. They're still there. Just no bones.
02:37 *Kratos and Athena fighting*
02:44 Lifting bodies.
02:46 I did not ask for his help.
02:48 But you received it nonetheless, didn't you, Spartan?
02:53 Yeah, we had a feeling this scene was going to get altered the second we saw it.
03:00 Ascension's grisly martyr's chamber segment involves one dead person losing their arms should Kratos fail the puzzle.
03:07 Care to guess who had the scene altered?
03:09 Well, it wasn't Japan this time, but Germany. And get this, it wasn't even the limbs coming off
03:17 that was the problem. They just simply had the Fountain of Gore removed.
03:21 Betray your own.
03:23 Betrayed his own?
03:26 Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
03:28 Buttgate.
03:29 You are not meant to die here.
03:31 The weirdest thing about this was that Germany had no problems with the original iteration of God of War 2.
03:37 Looks like someone had a change of heart when Blue Point Games touched it up for the PS3.
03:42 The HD version of God of War 2 was altered specifically in the section where Kratos meets the woman with Gaia's voice.
03:50 While the sweet keister was left undisturbed in every other corner of the world,
03:55 Germany said, "That ain't gonna fly with our core values," and had the booty covered.
04:00 For this iteration.
04:03 Not the original.
04:04 The HD version.
04:06 I have watched you become a powerful warrior.
04:09 Pollux's demise.
04:12 It was my brother who betrayed me.
04:14 Betrayed us all!
04:16 To be honest, we're not quite sure what the problem was here.
04:23 Maybe Pollux's death is viewed as too vicious in Germany and Japan?
04:27 In the uncensored version, all Kratos does is stomp on his head. One stomp.
04:32 It wasn't a death as vicious as any of the other ones we've seen before, like in, say, God of War 3,
04:37 but for some reason, this was just too much for Germany, and the camera zooms in on the ghost of Sparta before his foot comes down.
04:45 The end of Herx Adventures.
04:52 This time I will destroy you.
04:55 Call it my 13th and final labor.
04:59 Soon I will become the God of War and claim the throne for myself.
05:05 God of War 3 could have had just about all of its deaths censored in Japan if violence was that big of a concern.
05:11 And yet, the only boss whose death got toned down was Hercules.
05:16 Yeah, getting your face beaten to a pulp is an awfully savage way to go out,
05:21 but how could you possibly tone this down even further?
05:24 Well, just remove the bloodshed.
05:27 That's it. Now the game is A-OK...
05:30 somehow.
05:33 Birthday suits!
05:39 We'll keep this one brief since we can't show too much of this, but God of War is no stranger to nudity,
05:49 and there are times where it might be a bit much for some.
05:53 So we don't blame Europe and Japan for not wanting people running around with Kratos in the birthday suits.
05:58 Complete this final task, and the past that consumes you will be forgiven.
06:04 The Chamber's Memo.
06:05 Oh, you know what we're about to cap off with.
06:08 It's the scene everyone who has played the original game knows, but before we get into that specific portion,
06:15 there is one alteration we found a tad interesting.
06:18 In the Sacrificial Chamber,
06:20 there is a note left by a guard before his death that reads,
06:23 "What the gods ask of me, I cannot do,
06:26 even for Pandora's box.
06:29 They are monsters now, and they were once men."
06:33 Considering some European countries might be too sensitive to religions being questioned and defied,
06:38 this scene was changed in PAL regions to instead read,
06:42 "I know I am weak, but I cannot be a part of this.
06:46 I have failed Athens."
06:48 It arguably changes a bit of the game's story and themes, but who are we to judge?
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07:03 What are we cooking tonight, Brian?
07:12 Of any and all deaths featured in the God of War franchise,
07:16 this one was the most heavily altered, and it was done for both Europe and Japan.
07:22 Look, the Sacrificial Chamber is one of the best scenes in the original God of War, for both its brutality
07:28 and character-defining moment for Kratos, but not everyone can stand seeing a digital human get cooked alive.
07:35 For the two regions, the human soldier is replaced with a monster,
07:39 and all of the dialogue that would have happened between Kratos and the soldier is completely cut out.
07:44 The same replacement was made with the other soldiers in cages. All of them changed into monsters.
07:50 We'd like to imagine that soldier is somewhere out there in his afterlife, in this alternate, censored version,
07:56 enjoying llamas and croissant.
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