Comments on: Tales of Berseria Remastered to use international “censored” version in Japan too

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:00:33 +0000

Not to be mean or rude but I hate censorship. I will not buy this now that I know it will be censored. I don’t understand why they can’t just leave it uncensored and just rate it mature. Censorship ship ticks people off. Especially me. I don’t trust Bandai Namco anymore. They don’t understand that video games have ratings. If a game is rated mature its rated that for a reason
I now will never buy any games this company makes or mastered ever again because I don’t trust them to release them uncensored in the west and so on.

By: Blu

Blu — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:37:38 +0000

Insuring no one that takes Cambridge with censorship buys the remaster, I see. What are ratings for?

By: Meh

Meh — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:17:19 +0000

Reconsider. I initially enjoyed the international version of the scene, and feel it’s more aligned with Tales as a whole. However, in the grand scheme, it’s an exception to my usual opinion. I don’t think it makes a huge difference, because a lot of the creative process is just finding solutions to limitations (be it technical or imposed.) So given this kind of release is a bit of a line in the sand, as the limitations were imposed (huge issue, but maybe not for this), I can’t help but wonder if this will impact future policy or guidelines, and hope the decision works out.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:12:21 +0000

Sadly this has been a thing since the PS1. When a new game releases in Japanese and Global usually Global version has much more development time and fixes while also sadly censoring the games and butchering translation. What this means is whenever a remaster comes out of an older game both Japan and English do get the censored product at the same time including Global as everyone gets the American version. This has been true with Xenoblade Chronicles X as it was for Tokyo Mirage Sessions. This is because it’s considered cheap, easy and efficient than trying to implement the same fixes from English into the Japanese version.

I will say it’s why I did not buy this game or XCX at all. Censored products are just living in a world of 4kids still in the video games industry. Hopefully Japanese companies learn to make products become 1:1 overseas as it is with the Japanese version for the future without listening to Censors and Translators.