10 CENSORED Moments in God of War Games

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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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