Japanese Resident Evil is VERY Different - Region Break
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Japanese special ending: • PS BIOHAZARD 惡靈古堡 バイオハ...
Biohazard prototype footage: • Bio Menace prototype (...
Chris Kramer Interview: • Capcom Games: What Gam...
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It's so weird to think that the violence censorship would be swapped today. It'd be uncensored in the US, but censored in Japan. Japan's rating system has gotten so much stricter the last 10 years or so.
I'm actually shocked the decapitated head is in the Japanese release. Hasn't decapitations in media been a huge no no in Japan since the 80's? It's why RE4's chainsaw death animation is censored.
@@tacticaljunk1608o don't understand where the line is drawn. Clearly in anime they do whatever the f they want. Devilman crybaby, chainsaw man, goblin slayer, promised neverland.There's countless animes that are way more graphic than Hollywood. Past and present. Is it just video games that are censored? I'm pretty sure even their movies are still f'd up. Battle royal and 13 assassin's come to mind.
He mentioned the ESRB. Remember, this was only 3 years after the Congressional Hearings for Mortal Kombat and other violent games. The censorship was most likely a bit of an overreaction to that to play it safe.
I was born and raised in Japan. The difference between Japan and America is that Japan is much more strict when it comes to gore/violence but lenient when it comes to pedophilia. Don’t get this wrong, not that pedophilia is accepted in Japan, it’s in fact very illegal but it’s much more lenient when it comes to “publication” policy regarding pedophilia.
@@shanetaylor761 They draw the line at Video Games.
Movies and tv can have decapitation (but it'll be the equivalent of an R. No loopholes for fantasy like LotR or Star Wars).
With Video Games because you control it, they take a harder line.
"I got a shotgun! Yeah..."
Big mood.
"Never believe in the AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Coincidentally how you react in any RE game when you find the shotgun :)
@@cyberspacedweller637 so true 🤣
4:42
The Rebecca "80s sitcom" smile in her intro always makes me laugh, haha.
That gets me every time lol
"It takes a lot to make a stew..."
@@LochNessHamster "When it's made of me and you... "
@@SsnakeBite "And him, and Steve from corporate, too! Too Many Cooks, it's truuuue!"
"The Pain Hurts" is the deepest songwriting I have ever heard. The artist was clearly focusing something big in their life into this song. So emotional!
The deeeemons, bottle my emoootions,
Never believe, in their lieeeeeeAAAAAAAAAS!!!!
- Reggie Z Evil, protagonist of Zombie Shooter
I have always loved Resident Evil, one of my favorite series, but now I know I was subconsciously channeling a deep emotional bond I never knew existed.
It's not that deep 🤓
@@DaRealMacoy064No... It goes way deeper
The Pain Hurts.. But Yhe Hurt pains.. The Sad Is Bad.. Inside My Brains..
A few side notes:
-The PC version of Resident Evil had colors for the intro instead of being monochrome, it was also uncensored. The Director's Cut was supposted to have the uncensored intro from the Japanese version, but, i kid you not, they actually forgot to bring it over to the western versions of it, so instead, they left the uncut intro in a website to be downloaded.
(Edit: I forgot the French version, for some reason, has the Japanese FMV for the intro...)
(The German version of Director's Cut ALSO has an uncut intro, with color even! Which is weird when you think about it.)
-The music in the cast part of the intro is titled "Icy Gaze", a full version exists, and you can listen to it in UA-cam actually, the intro cropped parts of it, and only used the parts where it uses english lyrics.
-Despite being Japanese, the game is entirely in english in terms of voice acting, it however has captions in-game, there are no captions in other regions however, i think Biohazard Complete Disc added Japanese voice acting for FMVs as a bonus feature.
-The Japanese Sega Saturn version has limbs that stays on the ground (until you leave the room of course), the Playstation version has limbs that simply disappear, was cut in the international versions of the Saturn version, and funly enough, a prototype of the Playstation version had that feature in.
-Barry had a re-dubbed line for some reason in the Saturn version. (thanks Perene)
The Saturn has the cool Battle Mode with a lot of extras as an apology for the delays.
Like a zombified Wesker, two Tyrant fight at the same time, etc.
I personally spent a lot of time in this Battle Mode back in my childhood.
Also another cool thing about it:
Every single release of this game has different bonuses for when completing the game and nearly all are exclusive to their respective release (I'm taking into account re-releases), sadly nearly all are just different clothes aside the PC version, which has two extra weapons.
I downloaded that very video in high school in wonderful Real Media format, all compressed as hell, and was in awe of how awesome(ly bad) it was!
Biohazard did not include a colored intro. It was always in black and white. The only thing they changed in Director's Cut was remove all the licensed music.
Every non english version had captions for every spoken English word.
More than likely they did a mistake before the shipping
Regarding the button switch, this is still very common in Japanese games today. X (batsu) is a cultural symbol for "no" or "incorrect", where O (maru) means "yes" or "correct" (interesting that it's square here). Sometimes it's changed for the international release, sometimes it isn't -- see pretty much any Square Enix game -- but there's definitely an adjustment period for me when I switch between games.
The X is universal, especially in disaster situations. FEMA uses a red X system to convey information about houses after hurricanes here in the south.
Kingdom Hearts is an example of that; it took me a while to get used to it (and then again when I changed back to the Spanish version lol).
I don't get why international markets have to screw with that. X is a perfectly understood symbol of 'no' everywhere, is it not?
No it's not
Sometimes X means end or target etc
8:25 shout out to Yasuhiro Anpo!! Started out as the Software System Engineer for the very first Resident Evil/BioHazard, and now he's the Director of both RE2 and RE4 remakes!
Wait Capcom outsourced the RE-2 remake to another company , ,kinda controversial actually , , ,🤔🤔
calm down bro
Whao😲~
@@wyldelf2685 We live in a world where cooperations exist ^^
@@Justforvisit more like money grubbing lazy companies
I always wondered why the Bravo Team member that was being eaten by the first zombie never became a zombie. I guess it's because originally he got his head cutoff so he couldn't become a zombie, thus was never programed in
Yeah, it destroyed his throat/spinal area so Kenneth was never gonna get back up.
That was always clear.
Even without the cutscene showing the head drop, it's still laying there after the cutscene ends.
Forrest too. I believe Forrest only becomes a zombie on very hard mode in RE directors cut. In all other versions he doesn’t reanimate.
Forest can become a zombie in Deadly Silence rebirth mode.
@@alwillk Forest also zombifies in the remake. Though, I think the only reason they could justify not zombifying Kenneth in the REmake (considering he only gets his throat torn out) is the little lore plot convenience of 10% of the population being immune to the T virus.
For those interested:
There is a fan mod called Ultimate Director's Cut that restores the censored content, the original music that didn't sound like a dying trumpet and maintains the DualShock feature.
Actually the "clowns farting in the basement" music was not a problem with the music itself or the composition. It was a bug in the code that caused the wrong sound font to be selected. The Playstation used MIDI for music. Using the wrong sound font (instruments) can have rather hilarious results. There is a video where someone did nothing but correct the sound font, and it sounds exactly as it should.
Yes. It’s awesome. The only thing not patched back in was the pictures of what you’re reading in the background when looking at documents.
Does it have auto aim and more ink ribbons for saves?
@@SomePotatoauto aim yes, unsure about the ribbons.
@@MrMet2087 Thank you!
the japanese opening song is "ICE GAZE" and the ending song is "I Won't let this end as a Dream" both from Fumitaka Fuchigami, amazing songs i must say, pure 90's juice
It's final fantasy7 boss battle music 🤣
i love how the japanese cast intro just straight out spoils that wesker is the villain by the lyrics ''never believe in the lies''.
No it didn’t
The music at 5:03 is actually bits and pieces of (an apparently unreleased english version of) 氷のまなざし (aka Icy Gaze) by Fumitaka Fuchigami and Hiroshi Yasukawa, which is the opening theme of the very first japanese release of the original game.
Both Icy Gaze and the ending theme 夢で終らせない were produced and inserted into the game to promote Fuchigami's career.
It's not unreleased. The end of the song is in English
@@Viichan777 Indeed, they do speak some english at the latter part of the song, but the lyrics don't match the original song. For example, Jill's bit fits the 0:36～0:38 part of the full track, and yet the lyrics are different. The only part that matches is Wesker's one.
The instrumental sounds like a final fantasy 7 boss battle..
@@sabo-vf3xj Yes, I went looking for the Japanese lyrics to "Icy Gaze" and they don't match what was being shown at that point in this video at all, so I guess they are from a separate English version; is that version really not available anywhere?
@@realQuestion Nope. As far as I know only the japanese version was released.
Great episode Shesez, didn't know about there already being a game called biohazard, the reason I've always heard as to why Capcom couldn't use Biohazard, because at the time of its original release, there was a band with the name biohazard
Yeah...and that game wouldn't have stopped them from using the name Biohazard. The problem is, Capcom wouldn't have been able to trademark it.
@@StormsparkPegasusWhich they clearly needed to do because it is one of their top, if not their top, intellectual property.
Besides Resident Evil sounds unique up to this day.
@Ismayamelasrana2 Plus, it still makes sense to this day. Most games in the series are about residents that are evil.
@@alfo2804True, but many of the hazards in these games are biological.
Should have added the French version too, since the opening cinematic has color instead of the black and white. The japanese ending song was originally in Street Fighter Zero for ps1 under, "Game Information". It was a trailer for Bio Hazard which you can hear the song plays in.
A few months ago I played the German version (European Pal version audio edition English with German subtitles) and it's exactly the same with the colored intro.
I think all European (German, French, Spanish, etc.) PAL versions of the game had this colored intro and even the background images for reports, diary entries, etc. Only the directors cut edition, regardless of whether it was NTSC or PAL, had the longer black and white intro from the original Japanese version of the game.
I used to think the name Biohazard didn't carry overseas due to the association with the American heavy metal band that shared the same name, quite the surprise to see that Apogee was unintentionally involved during the development period of the game.
I like the name Bio Harzard.
I like the name *Resident Evil.*
@@thatsruffdogyet the original was Bio Hazard it was just changed due to a band/other games name so I agree with Biohazard
@@thatsruffdogalso RE back then was severely censored so I guess you like less gore and dumb edits/censorship for Americans then.😊
@keip4568 No need to be an Ass. Copyright BS is very different than censorship so you can like the changed name and still hate censorship, as I do. You can also just judge the names disconnected from which is the original.
@@keip4568
Gee, I bet you have no friends! 😊
A fun fact about the reason why there is Blood Type in the Character stats in the intro
In Japan there is a Psychological link between Blood type and Personality
They thankfully left it in the US version
We have astrology, not much better lol
@@mattmolloy636
Atleast the bloodtype has a genetic factor and isnt just made up fairytale
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti both are equally stupid to use as a tool to explain away personality traits
@@mattmolloy636 Most maddening thing about that is that it permanently gets confused with astronomy by SOOOO many people...
@@Justforvisit
Dude, true
dude my comments section is freakin top tier. enjoy all the awesome random trivia
Did you know that there is a prototype version of re1 on ps1 This version dates back to February 8, 1996 What is special about this version is that it has a censorship of blood, as zombie blood is green This feature never saw the light of day until the game was ported on the Nintendo DS , although this prototype is USA version It have auto aim and the player runs by pressing the X button , and the game can be played from beginning to end. It is basically a complete game With minor differences Also, the debug menu is in the game Because the developers did not remove it until the release date
did they add a bunch of this back in with the directors cut version?
@@scwintz101 I don "t think so
@@scwintz101
Original mode in Director's Cut brought back the original ink ribbon count and dialed the enemies down to be almost entirely like in the original Japanese version (though for some reason reason they undid that in Dual Shock Edition). Hunters seem to be more fragile than in the original Japanese release and outside arranged mode, though. Also, auto-aim was brought back.
The German and French Director's Cut versions don't have censored intros; which includes having them fully colored.
Deadly Silence has the unaltered Kenneth death scene. It also has those background images for the files. The difficulty labels under Chris and Jill are included. There are two control options in Deadly Silence and the Japanese version defaults to the y button being used as action and b button for running. Though you can switch control options in both Japanese and international.
The Japanese version of Director's Cut actually doesn't have the normal and hard labels in arrange mode.
I feel you could at some other time compare the Japanese and international Saturn versions to their respective pre-Director's Cut PlayStation counterparts. It isn't just a mater of the exclusive Battle Game mode or the Saturn version having worse models.
For starters, the Japanese Saturn version uses the same character roll and ending theme from the international PlayStation version. It contains two unique costumes you can't find in any PlayStation release, Deadly Silence, nor the PC version. To make up for that, the PC port (along with Deadly Silence) has its own costumes. A couple of backgrounds were given tweaks that aren't just changing the coloration. In the catacombs, the Hunters are remodeled into the likely non-canon Tick enemy. There are two things to note. The first is that they have no qualms with using the decapitation move at close range. Also, they reduced the two Hunters to just one Tick in the room that Enrico dies at during Chris's story; likely for balance purposes.
The Japanese version is even more ruthless than the Japanese PlayStation release, German and French Director's Cut, and the uncensored PC releases (with the English version being the only official uncensored release in the US). When Plant 42 kills Jill or Chris in the international editions, the screen fades to white like it usually does. However, the Japanese version actually shows the player character get sliced in half. Only the uncensored PC releases and Deadly Silence kept the animation fully visible. Also, it seems only the Japanese Saturn version shows the dead character getting devoured. The international versions have the zombie just stand there; which is also different from all other ports.
There are a few scenes that have altered the character audio and modified one of the songs during a story moment. When Chris or Jill meets up with Wesker in the guard house, they added in an extra note to the music or tweaked a small part of it. During a run on Jill's bad ending, there is a secret scene you can unlock at the guard house. If the requirements are met, Jill will eavesdrop on Barry behind the door. Normally you can just hear Barry arguing at someone. In the Saturn release and PC editions, Wesker can actually be heard responding. A video titled 'Resident Evil (1996) - Barry voice differences (Saturn vs PlayStation)' demonstrates that. While a video titled 'Resident Evil - PC - Windows 95 Exclusive costumes and weapons for both Jill and Chris! + Bonus' not only demonstrates the Ingram machine gun I've mentioned elsewhere (with Chris's Minimi being nearly identical functionally), but after halfway through the video shows that Wesker can be heard responding to Barry just like with the Saturn port. Also, there's an alternate Barry line take after he kills off Plant 42 for Jill.
One last thing, it seems they replaced the stairs walking animations.
The intro song saying “I got a shotgun” so proudly at the start killed me 😂😂😂 (5:03)
the German Resident Evil directors cut HAD a coloured intro (with all the gore and splatter effects) but still had the censored first zombie scene.... and several mistranslations that were not present in the original version. For example Jill is using a DumDum Geschoss (dumdum bullets) to open locks instead of the Lockpick (in German: Dietrich). xD but having like a 90s Popsong as an ending for a horror game is... funny and weird as hell. Considering they tried to go full on horror movie with the intro and stuff.
The Uk PAL directors cut had the head but not half eaten it just rolls to the side if i remember rightly..
It was basically a rule in the 90s that Japanese games and anime had a pop song or ballad in the ending credits, no matter the genre.
@@thatcarguy6190 i'm really not sure with the zombie scene in my head it didn't happen but could be. :-D i was 13 when i played it so yeah... been a while
@@Zanji1234 I just turned 40 born in 83 my memory is not as it used to be with all the bud smoking since but yes i'm pretty sure the head dropped and rolled but don't remember the gore on it as seen in the jap version i chipped my ps1 so had yank version aswell
(I'm english btw) 👍🏻
The biggest irony being now everything is over censored here in Japan. Psycho Break for example or what you would call The Evil Within came with a code here on one of those leaflets just to unlock 'gore' and it was atill heavily censored.
There was actually a preview of Bio Hazard in the "trailers" section on the Street Fighter Zero disc, structured exactly as a trailer, narrator and all.
It's on YT too if ppl wanna check it out...
Can't forget this line:
"Bio Hazard - That's not just a game!"
It was awesome!
REALISTIC.
ACTION!
The reason why the ending track was changed was due to copyright as the vocals were done by fumitaka fuchigami. The track is called "I won't let this end" as a dream
Great episode! Please use stock pictures or something instead of these AI monstosities though, the "woman" at 00:49 jumpscared me lol
Yeah, i had to do a double take because i was trying to read the names in the whiteboard and it made me very confused. Just use stock pictures, please
it seems to be blurred now?
Am I going crazy? All I see is some blurred stuff
@@uwhehnf you can edit videos through youtube, after they're published, and add effects like that blurry one. He probably edited that part to add that blurred effect after people pointed out it was AI.
What was it? I'm so curious haha
Honestly, the removal of lyrics is a head scratcher, I love how campy those are and considering how iconic stuff like Jill Sandwich became it's a surprise to see some of the best lyrics of like any 90s game get cut like that for localization.
This series is always a sight for sore eyes though, I can't wait for the next episode, alongside the Boundary Break episodes of course!
It's so weird that the Japanese version is easier. Usually, the international release versions are toned down in difficulty.
It heard that older capcom games were made more difficult in the west to prevent people from finishing them within a single rental period, since renting games was popular in the west at the time.
@@Schmoseph Video game rental is in fact illegal in Japan. So they likely looked at rental far more harshly than western companies.
Due to rentals during the time, it is likely the difficulty was artificially altered to keep you renting it, Video Game Rentals are illegal in Japan due to lobbying in the 80's from rampant Game piracy.
There was an amendment to the copyright law, thus making it illegal.
All Japanese games are easier than other regions
Nah, you just hear about the times the Japanese version was harder. Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason.
Like in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance where Japan had Normal, Hard, and Maniac mode but the international release removed Maniac and added Easy.
But then the sequel Radiant Dawn also had Japan with Normal, Hard, and Maniac and international had Easy, Normal, and Hard but unlike Radiant Dawn no difficulty mode was added or removed, so English Normal was Japanese Hard. This lead to Radiant Dawn in the west having one of the most infamous difficulty spikes between games in Fire Emblem history.
Awesome episode Shesez! I’m a huge RE fan and this is such an interesting watch. Thanks for all your hard work
Really appreciate the work you put into this video :) Specially pausing and syncing the games intro. Thank you!!!
The cut opening movie is *so* Night of the Living Dead, they knew what they wanted in terms of a campy, "American" branded experience. SO interesting to see the differences
Interesting that you mentioned Night of the Living Dead, 'cause George Romero and Resident Evil both have a pretty strong connection--the former once planned on making a movie based on the latter, before Paul W.S. Anderson eventually helmed the film series, with his eventual wife-to-be Milla Jovovich playing the protagonist. Additionally, Romero's script was initially going to focus on series icon Jill Valentine instead of the OC Alice Marcus.
Today, we've got 2021's Welcome to Raccoon City, which itself is a reboot featuring Jill Valentine and the Redfields, and an upcoming documentary about George Romero's unmade Resident Evil film.
Back in 1999, when I was 10 years old, there was a video game collection for the PC called "Gold Games". The third volume of this collection contained a pinball game. Me and a friend wanted to install and play it. After we installed and started the game, it played the fully colored, uncut Resident Evil intro instead of the actual game. It must have been some kind of Easter Egg. I remember being shocked because there was so much violence and blood :D
That music section was funny af! Shesez your subtitles made it.
Thank you so much for the time and energy you put into these videos! Another great episode. Great music showcase on this one.
I still own an original US release of the PC version of this game, published by Virgin, and it restores a lot of the stuff that was taken out, including everything for the intro (Dead body, severed hand, Joseph's death, Chris lighting up, COLOR), the first zombie encounter head roll, images for the documents, and probably more stuff I can't remember right now. It's a shame that nobody has ever tried to do an update patch for this version of the game. ReBirth only patches the Japanese version.
5:22 That iconic 80s soundtrack in the Japanese version's character selection menu had me rolling! I especially like the hit song "Sending Out Evil Spirits to Bottle My Emotions" 🤣
I'm glad you make these videos. It can be kind of hard to find easy regional comparisons, and these fit that need nicely.
I feel like I mention it every time you upload these, but I love this series so much. I love comparing the differences of all kinds of media (not just video games) so this really appealing
0:47 not the ai generated pic LMAOOO
Great stuff as always buddy. I cannot believe the lyrics to the Japanese intro! Hilarious and so 90's. Cant wait for your next region break. Cheers❤
I used to watch my big brother play Resident Evil games on occasion and as thus they are comforting to me which is odd considering their content lol. Thanks for this video Shesez it was entertaining and fun to watch. It is a shame to me that the YT algorithm is shafting your videos the last few years, You deserve more views on mainline YT. Well at least you have a decent amount of Patreon's of which I will be joining in a couple months.
Have a great night.
This is awesome. Thank you for putting in the time to make this video. I found it fascinating
Glad you enjoyed it!
The music direction Bio Hazard took is way out of hand and I am freakin' living for it
It sounds like it was made for a Korean Drama instead of a horror game. Especially those lyrics in the credits that have nothing to do with the game whatsoever.
I love how you can tell Shezes had a lot of fun making this episode.
Thanks for making this side by side video! I’ve always wanted to know the differences here.
Great job on this video. Thanks! Lots of fun
The franchise being named Bio Hazard makes way more sense than Resident Evil
I never knew about the aim assist thing
Funny that there's so many RE fans that consider the awkward aiming to be part of the challenge when it was something it was added as an after thought
Appreciate the effort man! Well done!
Shesez when i am able to contribute to your channel i will. Ever since watching boundary break however long ago, going into games i always wonder what's behind the players view. You've helped many players explore more and more about their favorite games. Cheers friend
The reason the X and Square buttons were swapped is because, in Japan, the X symbol is a universal symbol for "no" and "wrong", whereas O is the universal symbol for "correct", "confirm" and "yes", etc, which is in stark contrast to how us in the west typically see the controls.
I always found it interesting that there's a character in the game named Rebecca Chambers. For two reasons.
1. Years ago I wrote a story (that never got published) that had a character named Rebecca Chambers in it. The reason I named her that was she was meant to be a mix of the characters Diane Chambers and Rebecca Howe from "Cheers". I've never been very familiar with the Resident Evil games, so I didn't know there already existed a fictional character with that name.
2. I once met a woman who actually was named Rebecca Chambers. Like me, she wasn't familiar with Resident Evil either, and didn't know she had the same name as a video game character.
Thanks Shesez! I LOVE the region break series!
love this episode ! great job man
I liked the name Bio Hazard way more as a kid and thought it was more fitting but Resident Evil was so badass.
RE 1 on launch was the first game I heard of an uncut Japanese version of the intro cutscene in color so we looked it up online on some shady website and it was so cool as a middle schooler to see.
I had the OG released disc of RE and there was no auto aim or quick turn,
So I got very good at spacing and aiming in the game, to the point that when versions of the game came out that had those put back in they felt like straight cheating.
The newspaper intro difference always creeped me out more than just straight gore because as a kid I imagined monsters coming through my window at night and eating my family alive like they show in the papers ingame. What you don’t see is scarier than what you do.
I agree with yo ass ma dawg
The English lyrics to the opening song are excellent, really made my day.
The practical effects in the original intro video are awesome!
Excellent video, great finds!
すごい！ Thanks for reminding me Resident Evil was originally in Japanese. I completely forgot. Now I can go find the original version to download and play it in original style now that I would be able to read it. ありがとう！
And if you get tired of that, Biorand exists.
the hands on the AI generated image 0:48 are cursed. Look at the bottom left corner and check out that side profile. What is the shape of that head?
really looking forward to this episode!!
Wonderful content, thank you so much!
0:47 Please don't use AI generated images in your videos like that, not only they look bad (i thought i was going crazy trying to read the text), stock photos aren't that expensive and will look much better
It does get the "Resident Evil" vibe across... *shudder*
That section has been blurred through youtube's tools. Was wondering why.
@@ThePensiveWalrusbecause enough people complained probably
What kind of image was it?
why do ppl get mad just by using AI
@@Ismayamelasranaid Some people feel that it cheapens some experiences. They're useful otherwise, but you've got to invest more time in prompts and whatnot to make them appealing.
The ending song in the American version is super similar to the initial soundtrack of Sonic Adventure. Thought it was interesting, but it's probably just a coincidence
That's part of what I love about that theme.
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
It's obviously quite a bit earlier, but it's so similar that you'd be hard pressed to argue that it's a coincidence.
Wouldn't be the only bit of music on a first party dreamcast game to border on plagiarism: the music that plays during matches in Virtua Tennis is made up of two sections that sound suspiciously similar to "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" and "Mountainside" by Elton John and Wishbone Ash, respectively.
Awesome episode to it was very interesting to see the different region versions of the original Resident evil game. Also, I have been a fan of this channel for 5 & a Half Years.
Commenting to help fight the algorithm! Get yourself more views! Best series ever and the content never ends! Thank you for all your hard work and keep up the grind. Love your videos so much.
4:24 A guitar riff? The only thing I hear in the opening is a slap bass line
While the Japanese ending theme matches nicely to the pacing of the Credits, I will ALWAYS love Still Dawn. Just such a triumphant way to close out the adventure and feels so Sega Saturny.
Lol great video.
Many things I did not know that you mentioned.
I love retro games. So I still, and always will, find the old classics fascinating, and RE is one of my all-time favorites.
Amazing! Looking forward to this one!
I own almost every copy of Resident Evil/Biohazard in physical forms. This was my favourite game of all time back in the day.
Dude you forgot one thing to mention: sometimes you shoot an arm off from a Zombie, in the Japanese Version the Arm lays on the ground, in the american/european version the arm disappears.
Love the vids man keep it up
The end card with the playlist link kinda covers up the credits at the end. Love the video, though!
hey man! I found a n64 game that would be so very cool to see a boundary break episode! There is a Japanese train simulator game called Densha De Go. I Am so curious to see if the entire train track is rendered
It's so strange and ironic to me the way things had to be censored for the original RE to make it into America, but then other things had to be censored in RE's home country for things like RE4's chainsaw kills. That opening cinematic is just amazing and I love it. But I also wanna say, maybe don't use AI generated images in your videos. There's a ton of lawsuits going on with regards to them, and they look cheap. Which was a huge contrast to the editing you went through for the intro comparisons -- and I laughed out loud at the lyrics, especially on Wesker omg.
Fun fact about the RE 4 censorship in Japan; its borderline ILLEGAL to show a decapitation in any media if it's done via bladed weapon in Japan. It's because of Japan's history with ritual beheading and its imperial ties. Its the same reason why a lot of Japanese media does not glorify the military unlike western media.
In Japan, you can watch a character getting their head bitten off, shot off, torn off, etc but CAN'T show them being beheaded with a sword or, in RE4's case, a chainsaw.
One of my favorite video game franchises! Great video!
Really crazy how much differences were in these 2 different versions. Great video.
10:08 can't you just show a couple of images or a pdf? you don''t need to have the actual box.
I really like Shesez and his videos but he really does make more UA-cam algorithm complaining videos and comments than any other channel I've ever seen. It gets truly bizarre sometimes
The Japanese Saturn version has its own unique artwork even compared to the other versions.
The first version of Resident Evil in the US had not just the jewel case version on PlayStation, but also the earlier longbox edition. Safe to say the longboxes were not well made and Sony ditched them generally quickly. I also prefer how the jewel case version overall looks. Also, there's a White Label version for Europe on PlayStation.
I also wonder why he can't just go with images if he's concerned about the budget. Heck, he has to also keep in mind there are big box editions in both Japan and North America for the PC version. There's even the lost White Label PC version for Australia (with the European version looking similar, but does not have the age classification sticker at the front nor does it mention 3DFX cards on the front). The main art on the big box feeling like a big post stamp. He might find it difficult to get the Japanese PC big box or even that White Label release.
Oh, yeah, Korea and China had their own box art for the PC release. Korea's big box is inspired by the North American Saturn box art, but has official art of Jill and Chris plastered next to the zombie. Also, the jewel case has the same Jill and Chris art in front of a white background.
As for China, it was actually published by Ubisoft Shanghai. They seem to have two versions; one that's a very stylized take on the original Japanese PlayStation cover. The other inspired by the North American box art for the first version of Resident Evil on PlayStation. Both have white borders at both bottom and top. With the bottom white border having the tagline "Every adventure has a beginning". Also, it appears the CD came in an actual DVD case.
@@Zeldarulahhe made one video about it
Does anyone else think of "Sonic Adventure" and running down Emerald Coast during the end credits theme?
I always think of Sonic Adventure when listening to Still Dawn.
Proud of you for stepping out of your comfort zone and doing a PlayStation title! Keep up the good work man! I love these videos!
there is no such thing as a comfort zone
Thanks for making this video! I played Biohazard when it was new so never really cared to later play the English version. I therefore had no idea about these differences!
I kinda miss all of this regional and random differences in games, nowadays they make games thinking of an international audience or even do the localization at the same time as the game is being developed.
The ai generated image at 0:47 is 😬
I don’t get why people still use this stuff when it both looks bad and it’s built off of stolen images
I consider myself a Resident Evil 'expert' But i had no idea the differences between the 2 opening FMV's! The singing part you did made me lol :D I did know about the difficulty settings and a few things here and there,but that opening FMV lmao,that is gold.
great episode! hearing the music was awesome too. The music is too good 😮
wow, so "director's cut" could not have been further from the truth! something tells me none of this stuff got re-added in it, what a gyp! I do remember hearing there were extra scenes in the intro that didn't make the cut, but I don't think there was *ever* any mention of the song!
shout-out to Laz though, I see him from time to time in one of the twitch streams I follow, and yeah he's been helpful as far as Japanese games go.
US gaming magazines at the time were furious that the directors cut was still censored
I find it funny that the censoring over the years got reversed between regions.
Agreed. I read the Spanish comic Todo Dinokid, and there's a Japanese character there. If it was an American comic he'd probably be a polite perv as that's how they are stereotyped there, but as it's Spanish, he instead is polite yet excited about blood and having Dinokid stomp people..!
Iirc Japan's rating system didn't come about until the mid-2000s immediately following a series of violent murders that made national news. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the standards they put in place as a result could be considered "knee-jerk reactions".
what a great video dude
Love your work brother.
When the Bio is Hazard, when the Resident is Evil
46 seconds into the video and it has an ai generated image lol.
Edit: lol it got blurred out
Might have to go back to the other episodes to check out the data I might not know and to support our bot
I don't know about the US but Europe got a Director's Cut version of the game about a year later. The DC version had the intro cinematic in color, uncut and uncensored but was still missing the head in the first in-game zombie encounter cinematic. The DC version also had a difficulty selection besides the character differences, it was basically the japanese difficulty and the US difficulty, but labled normal and hard. It also had the auto-aim feature and a cheat that would double all ammo and ribbons you would find.
That Japanese intro song goes HARD. Why was that made?! 😂
0:48 Please don’t use AI generated images in your videos. I usually unsubscribe and click off of any video that uses it, but I love you too much. Please stop.
I instantly went to the comments to see if someone else said something. So weird, there are so many stock photos of generic office spaces and stuff like that, don't know why you'd use this horrible Ai shit
What would you do if Shesez switched to fully AI videos (incl. a clone of his voice), so that he could publish content faster?
@@jayhughes3843 I'd stop watching
"Hurts... the Pain hurts" is.. such a line. its just.. immaculate. another amazing video! haha i love all these comparisons!
Lacks the funding to do box comparisons?
As in, putting two pictures downloaded from gamefaqs or something side by side? I'm sorry, what? That takes me right out of the video.
I don't get it either.
Please don't use AI art for slides in videos it's just way too creepy and distracting
Awesome video, I never knew there was so many differences!
There are even more differences when it comes to the Japanese and international Saturn releases compared to all the non-Director's Cut releases on PlayStation. Heck, the Japanese Saturn release even uses the international character roll and ending themes.
@@tidepoolclipper8657 oh wow, is there a video showing the differences for this one too???
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There isn't a singular video that showcases all the differences. A shame that Shesez currently has no intention of taking both the Japanese and international versions of PlayStation Resident Evil and comparing them alongside the Saturn Japanese and intentional releases.
The main video to start with would be 'Retro Head to Head - Resident Evil 1 - PS1 Vs Saturn Vs PC Vs DS'. It will provide the main meat of the differences the Saturn releases have with the PlayStation original releases. Make sure you read the description to know what version is which in the video. It should also be noted Saturn has different stairs walking animations.
'Game Over: Resident Evil (Saturn)' shows what it's like to die to a zombie specifically in the Saturn international version. The zombie actually just stands there. The Japanese version of the death animation though can be found in 'BIO HAZARD: Secrets from the Guidebook Sega Saturn Edition'.
'Uncensored Plant 42 Death Animation | Resident Evil (1996)' has a new animation of Plant 42 killing the player character; only shows up in Saturn Japanese release, uncensored PC, and Deadly Silence.
'Resident Evil (1996) - Barry voice differences (Saturn vs PlayStation)' shows an alternate take for Barry after he kills Plant 42 and also that Wesker can be heard behind that door unlike in PlayStation.
'Resident Evil (Sega Saturn) - (The Costume Room - All Costumes)' shows the Saturn exclusive costumes.
'SurvivHor - RE1 - Saturn - Tick' shows the modified Hunter known as the Tick in action.
'Resident Evil Easter Eggs, Secrets & More (Original Version) | 2022 EDITION!!!' shows the Tick using decapitation at close range and the other things relating to the Saturn.
'Resident Evil (Sega Saturn) - (Longplay - Chris Redfield | Battle Mode | S Rank)' shows the exclusive Battle Game.
Supplemental material; which includes a basic idea of the backgrounds not being the same between Saturn and PlayStation, would be 'Covering Resident Evil's Four Ports + MORE | Port vs Port', 'Resident Evil 1 Comparison: Playstation 1 vs Sega Saturn vs Nintendo DS (OSSC)', and 'Resident Evil 1 PS1 VS Saturn VS DS Console vs Console'. All of these videos should cover almost all the noteworthy stuff. Don't forget that while the Saturn Japanese release has the uncensored cutscene stuff, the international one does not.
Yay, a new shesez video!!
Changing my old comment bc Shesez removed the AI
How can you even tell?
@Vegeta654 the image used when he talks about the internal renaming contest is clearly AI generated, you can tell as all the potential names on the board is characteristically AI-ish gibberish
bidenomics hitting this channel hard
@@arekrekas213 Going back through some parts of the video you right. Crazy how insane AI is becoming now just imagine how crazy is going to be in another 10 years
@@Vegeta654 once you get used to seeing it you can spot them pretty easily. I saw the face was wonky, then the text on the board is complete mush. If you need more proof you can count the fingers on hands because AI is terrible with fingers.