Dead Rising gets a Z in Japan |
It seems preposterous that a land with weird tastes in games and an affectionate dislike for the character "Hard Gay" would find something to gripe about with zombie killing. Even with some modifications and the removal of decapitation animations and whatnot, they've decided to sentence Capcom's Dead Rising with the dreaded Z.
Even in Japan, they have their own quirky ratings system.
Z ratings refer to games that are for the 18+ crowd, and while this one was received VERY well by the American populace, the Japanese folks (who made the game, mind you) are a bit more hesitant to sell it for fear of legal problems if they sell it to minors.
Would the Japanese prefer it if we make cute and lovely like the above Photoshoppery? Sigh... it's so hard to understand the tastes of gamers these days.
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Comments [refresh]
it's 18's in most of Europe too
A stupid position that "It's strange [Game A] is an 18+ game" etc etc. When the game has been out for weeks in Europe as an 18+ (as the previous poster mentioned). It has not even been rated in Germany so it will not even be released there. Just like most similar games are. GTA is 18+ in Europe, while it's under (before the Hot Coffee mod anyway) in the USA.
On the positive side the decapitation animations etc have not been removed from the UK version (which is of course 18+).
if they added tentacled monsters having sex with 12 year old school girls it would go over better in japan
if the game were for the ps3 it might have avoided that rating. gotta love international/political affairs japanese have. same land that wished for a homogenous society. =/
it'll be even better if those school girls vomit in those monsters' mouths (or vice versa)