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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}|Bowdlerizing]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[The Witcher]]'' was fairly heavily censored in North America (to the point of having its own, less graphic sex cards) until the Director's Cut patch was released.
* Whenever a game is denied sale in Australia due to lacking a rating (due to it being "too much for MA" and the people in charge of giving higher ratings to videogames being more than a little clueless), this will inevitably occur. The most famous is ''[[Fallout 3]]'', where morphine became "Med-X", because we really have to protect Australian kids from getting mixed up in a hospital grade narcotic that is nowhere near as readily available as its illegal counterparts.
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* ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'' was hit with this particularly severely (even compared to the rest of the ''Breath of Fire'' games, almost all of which have either suffered some bowdlerising, dodgy translation, or both). The [[PS 1]] international versions had [http://www.zareste.com/web/bof%204%20bath.mov a bit of fanservice]{{Dead link}} (in essence, an [[Hot Springs Episode|onsen scene]] involving Nina and Ursula) and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110728221140/http://www.zareste.com/web/bof%204%20trousers.mov scene involving Ursula proving her womanhood via exposure] (which were not so important to the plot) cut entirely--as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_EL20mPZw a third, ''very'' plot-important scene] where {{spoiler|Fou-lu decapitates Emperor Soniel}}. International versions just ''fade to black'' at the latter scene and people are left [[What Happened to the Mouse?|wondering just what the hell happened]].
** The redaction of the latter scene is particularly puzzling {{spoiler|as the scene where Fou-lu actually offs Soniel is only depicted by black-on-red "washi screen" [[Gory Discretion Shot]]}}--very common to keep games in the equivalent of a PG rating as well as to get around Australian "blood bans"--and which would be considered quite safe for inclusion in Playstation games of the period. Yes, you're reading this right--this may well be the only known case ''where a previously censored scene was itself '''completely cut''' in international adaptations''.
*** And in the recently-completed adaptation of "[[Breath of Fire IV]]" being published by Comic Blade Avarus there is a bit of a [[Take That|Take Your Censorship And Shove It]] response to both the (relatively mild) original Japanese bowdlerisation and the (completely censored) international [[PS 1]] and Windows versions; the "graphic novelisation" [http://80.manmankan.com/200909/569/24359/0991509325824751.jpg is]{{Dead link}}, [http://80.manmankan.com/200909/569/24359/0991509325890409.jpg shall we say]{{Dead link}}, ''[http://80.manmankan.com/200909/569/24359/0991509325910038.jpg considerably]''{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Family Project]]'' had an English translation done by [[What an Idiot!|JAST]]. A number of scenes involving [[Token Loli|Matsuri]] were censored, with underwear digitally added in any scene that involved her being remotely nude at all. It didn't help that the customers who pre-ordered this were never warned of the censorship; in fact, [[Blatant Lies|JAST marketed the game as FULLY UNCENSORED]].
** http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/21/family-project-kazoku-keikaku-fully-uncensored-eroge/
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* ''[[Minecraft]]'' servers have to do this by substituting any firearms for fictional equivalents in order to comply with the EULA. In May of 2023, Mojang forced a server to do this after discovering that it contained firearms, leading many people to worry for the future of gun mods and a few mini games on the Hypixel server such as “Cops and Crims”.
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