Bon, voilà, derrière cette accroche choc je voudrais vous faire part de la réponse de Rising Star Games au mail que je leur avais adressé samedi dernier.
Mon mail :
Dear Rising Star Games,
After having heard that the game « No More Heroes » will be censured in Europe, I´m writting this email in order to tell you my indignation about the lack of respect you show to your customers.
I am a fan of Suda51 and since « No More Heroes » was anounced to be released in Europe, I´m getting more impatient every day. This game have a atmosphere very unique and totaly crazy; that is its very interest : every part of the game is essential in order to obtain this atmosphere. Blood as well. When the main character, Travis Touchdown, slice a ennemy with his sword, there is a big splash of blood. This blood is not here to intensify the violence in the game, in fact, this explosion of blood is not realistic at all.
I am not somebody who love violence and blood in a game, because, in many case, the blood is just here without valuable reason. But that is not the case here. The blood is here to participated to the crazy atmosphere of the game and intensify every hit of Travis. It is here to show that the world of the game is completely different from the real one.
Remove the blood in the game is a mark of disrespect to players and to the game himself.
Despite economic risks, you have chosen to published this game in Europe, moreover, it will be released in the beginning of 2008 in Europe which is fast contrary to many other publisher. I would like to thank you for that.
But I´m not interested in a censured version of this game, that why I will not buy it in France (I will have to modify my Wii and buy the US version), and I know that I am not alone in this case.
This game is so particular that it will probably not do great sales and that is a shame: game of that caliber deserve recognition. But I do not think that censorship is a good way to obtain recognition.
Thank you for your attention.
A disapointed gamer.
Et voici la réponse que j´ai reçue il y a une heure :
Thanks for your e-mail. We know there has been much speculation in the press this week over what some people consider to be the censoring of our brilliant new action RPG, No More Heroes.
We’d like to bring to your attention the recent joint statement by Suda 51 (the game’s writer and director) and Yasuhiro Wada, (President of Marvelous Digital Contents Company) the game’s Japanese publisher regarding the release of No More Heroes in Europe.
“First, let me say how honoured I am that everyone in Europe is expecting No More Heroes. The sales point of this game is action. Both I and Wada san have concentrated on making the best possible action game for the Nintendo Wii. We have chosen to release in Europe the same version as has shipped in Japan considering the broadly growing Wii market.”
So, to be clear, Rising Star Games has not censored No More Heroes. The decision to release the same game as that successfully released in Japan was taken by the game creators.
Here is a link to the joint statement from trade weekly MCV’s site:
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/29132/Devs-decided-to-censor-Euro-No-More-Heroes
Also, please check out these great previews, each highlighting that fundamentally the action, characterisation, story and humour are the key elements to this highly anticipated gaming masterpiece.
Games Radar
http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/wii/game/previews/article.jsp?releaseId=2006121210125293056&articleId=2007121192142843056&sectionId=1001
Gamespot
http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/action/heroes/news.html?sid=6183960&om_act=convert&om_clk=multimodule&tag=multimodule;picks;title;2
Eurogamer
http://www.eurogamer.net/t/article.php?article_id=89321
With regards
Richard Barclay