Resident Evil Village Gets Censored In Japan

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Capcom has confirmed that the Japanese version of Resident Evil Village will be censored to some degree in Japan to conform to the regulations set by CERO, the country’s video game rating organization. The developer acknowledged the differences in a Q&A post on its official site, which noted that the CERO D (ages 17 and up) and CERO Z (ages 18 and up) rated versions of Resident Evil Village would lack decapitations and feature less gore than their international counterparts.



“There is no head defect expression in the Japanese version,” a machine translation reads. “The Japanese domestic version has less bleeding expression than the overseas version.”



“The Japanese version cannot include expressions that conflict with...

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[Brian_B]

Head defect expression.

I'm intrigued.