Guys, do you think Serious Sam had blood options since the beginning? Because I kind of think the older Serious Sam games already had hippie mode. Please let me know if you have any information regarding whether or not you could change the blood in Serious Sam prior to the HD remasters. As many comments as humanly possible, please. Guys please also tell me about how Gorn does censorship, I haven't heard that Gorn turns enemies into piñatas, just let me know that I didn't talk about Gorn's censorship, thanks
Yes, I distinctly remember playing with "Hippie-Blood" in the original versions, on top of red and green. (I'm trying to remember if there was a 4th option, it could've been just "Off")
I vividly remember seeing that it was a cheat code option in console ports, actually? Could be the Mandela effect but I feel like I first learned about hippie mode from a Tips and Tricks or some magazine like that
The vr game Gorn has a "low-violence" setting that changes the enemies to piñatas, and it doesn't just change the blood to candy (although it still does that), it changes the teeth to rainbow candy, exposed flesh into candy, bones into candy canes, and it makes their skin look slightly more like paper and there is a lot of those extending bits of paper commonly found on piñatas.
I was just about to mention it since its my favorite one. The idea of choosing between regular and low violence is partly why I’m curious to try it ( I have a VR headset, just a big cheapskate )
@@samtinkle9076 And seeing anyone outside the community talk about Dbd or anything bhvr related also feels *weird* , for me dbd is still the small game nobody knows about that only i play
2:03 as a reference to the meet the medic short, where medic accidentally seals up Scout’s body after surgery… with his bird still in him. So, sometimes, if you kill scout with an explosive weapon, Archimedes (medic’s bird) will fly out of the gore.
I appreciate the explanation, but I already knew that 6 years ago when I made that video :P I was just surprised I kept getting them, because the chance is quite small.
@@ShockAbe”I’m gonna use this video to address the allegations made against me. Recently, to those who are unaware, I’ve been accused of grooming a 15 year old boy when I was 19, that I’m some kind of predator and was aware of his age all along. This is categorically untrue, and a complete lie” - different pyro
Surprised Splatoon wasn't mentioned in this video considering that it's a shooter with literally no blood. Shooting opponents? You're just covering them with ink. Killing opponents. Nope, they don't die, they just get splatted and respawn.
That game is a perfect example of what he was talking about later because it's completely designed around a premise that blood doesn't make sense in. It would feel stupid and less satisfying if it was violent.
I feel like my favorite example of how censorship can be done poorly is in Barony. There is a thing you can toggle in the settings that claims to "Disable blood and other explicit content" and yet the only thing it removes is blood. This is a game with succubus enemies that wear very explicit outfits and yet the only thing they chose to censor was the blood and maybe some swear words
Halo CE's Chinese censored version is particularly funny, because beyond removing blood (as expected), enemies fade after dying, rather than leaving any body. But...rather than fade with a transparency effect or something, they rapidly shrink into a speck and disappear. It makes it feel as if you have a shrink ray or something, it's rather funny.
Hey, that's better than the censorship in the German Left 4 Dead, where they just fade, and zombies sometimes are completely gone before they even hit the ground. But luckily the uncensored version isn't indexed anymore and a couple years back Valve released a small DLC patch that uncensors the game. So yes, even germans can now slaughter zombies in all it's gory glory.
Splatoon is an excellent example of a kid friendly shooter with fun and engaging mechanics. Not censorship, but a good example of an alternate way to make visceral and messy graphics without gore
In the point and click adventure Edna & Harvey: Harvey's new eyes, the player can have characters "accidentally" be brutally killed off. But luckily, everytime that happens, little gnomes helpers show up and paint anything that is not kid friendly pink. Its really shocking to see, and makes a lot of sense in the plot. Probably one of the best games to pull this kind of censorship off
I know just changing the blood colour is a lesser option and all like you said but its still funny when it gets changed to something like white and the game instead becomes tons more lewd. I'm thinking like Suija's zetsumei in Samurai Shodown 5 Special or Juza's death scene in the Fist of the North Star mobile game I also wish Mortal Kombat did something like this, just having an optional toggle that disables Fatalities entirely and makes the NRS-style Brutalities into more comical knockout supers. Instead all MK ever did was the sweat in SNES MK1 and green blood and sepia toned fatalities in Japanese SNES MK2.
Something that i allways wanted to do is a whole retro fps based on this concept, Just a cute girl slaying in the cutests of ways as the glitter comes out and she laughs like a psycho with a pastel chainsaw
I really like the "weapon" design in Noah's Ark 3D, it's not just a simple slingshot but a bunch of different related contraptions that feel like they would actually work. Also I wonder if people would buy a retro shooter based on the idea of it being the censored version of a classic shooter.🤔 I would be down for it.
I mean, I've actually come around to preferring the German version of HL1 over the original. I feel it has a bit more character, as janky as it is (or rather, as a result of that). Sometimes, the censored version can give you an "alternate take" on the story, which helps with replaying it.
Well, that and the robots and the fact I have lots of nostalgia for it :P I'll never forget buying it on that sunny Sunday afternoon at a flea market, for like... 3-5 bucks. Ahh, good times.
Honestly, the idea of having cutsie visuals but violent gameplay is so appealing to me, Like imagine a Quake game but in the style of Looney Tunes XD. Personally these types of censorship sometimes enhance games for me
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but THE FINALS has an example of cute censorship that I really like. When you someone dies you are replaced with coins, which looks very cool and fits the virtual setting of the game
The bit at the end about Overwatch and Fortnite is a very good point! You don't need OTT gore if you have good enough *impact.* Fortnite's weapons feel punchy, and while blood would be a fun detail, they've already figured out how to make it unnecessary.
@@phoenixmarktwo now that you say that i can vaguely remember, but its supposed to be blood and the game was rated t for violence and blood or mild blood if i remember
The VR gladiatorial brawler GORN has a funny way of censoring gore, though it is an option in-game as a kid mode. It turns the enemies into piñata dolls that spill out candy when torn apart (which happens often in GORN).
I feel like the Censorship of the german Saints Row 2 version is the worst example of how to do censorship. That version removes like half the activities in that game and puts a black bar over any cutscene that has any amount of mild violence or drug use depicted in it.
Honorable mention to "Nerf arena blast", a game that uses unreal engine and used a bunch of nerf guns. Yeah, it was a nerf promotion, like chex, but it played so demn well.
well gazelles and ostriches dont have hands, and bears dont exactly have elegant ones, so maybe thats why they cant just eat from their own grain bags?
i think another fun side effect of cute censorship is that it can sometimes make the effect even more visceral. take puss in boots the last wish or digital circus episode two, when characters would explode into confetti. the way that it’s portrayed makes it even more horrifying than if they were to just explode into gibs
Probably the biggest example of a generally violent franchise taking a spin towards a more child friendly route is Tiny Tiny's wonderlands. As someone who generally enjoys bright vibrant fantasy settings much more over depressing gritty ones, i found wonderlands really charming and it really looks like a whole game that's been made with kids in mind, even if some of the actual content in the game might not be.
I know it probably doesn't count, but the in-lore cognition filter from Lobotomy Corporation is an interesting example of this, even if it's only there because of time constraints.
I love when games with predatory microtransactions and fear of missing out pay to get mechanics are built from the ground up with kids in mind. Really soothes the moral panic i get whenever a kid sees blood. All things considered proper and good media for kids is always so hard to actually convince someone to do, theres very little money in it(at least in the context of massive AAA projects that have no business needing that much investment into a competitive scene) and whenever there is its always the first instinct to use "for kids" as a barrier to criticism rather than an opportunity to make something great.
The flower censorship in Alien Hominid reminds me of that scene in Suicide Squad, where Harley Quinn goes on a killing spree, where there's flowers everywhere, instead of blood and gore
One of my favorites is Gorn. The games a VR where you're fighting guys in an arena. In the non violent mode it makes them into pinyatas. They bleed candy bars and thier different organs are different candies. Thier eyes are gumballs, thier teeth are gumdrops, thier hearts are those heart shaped boxs of chocolate ect. I think you criticized this form of censorship but I like it here because of how high effort and fun it is.
The statement in the beginning is lies! At 8:28, you can see even more blood! I am deeply offended, and as a -67 year old, I have been eternally traumatized! (/j)
When i was in high-school I think i used to play a shooter that had a paintball option, i dont remember what game might have been a cod but i used to use it all the time because it was more visually interesting than the normal bullet holes
I mean like when it come to Going The Whole Hog, Cute Censorship and the Chex thing are the best. Also that I really do think that having your audience in mind when you make something will make the best something as well as being fun and interesting.
Transforming gore into cartoon gore while still keeping the gore is actual more gorey, imagine getting rainbowd into being 1 arm 2 legs and a bunch of flat flowers
In TREPANG2, you have a low violence mode in which you can turn off the organs and make less blood splatter or choose confetti mode to turn all blood splatters into confetti and turn organs off. There's also a piñata cheat in which you can turn the organs into candy, this unlocks after beating the game once I think.
tbh i always found cute gore censoring in video games hilarious. It’s like the most violent game but you’re shooting out flowers and hearts and people are bleeding rainbows lol
I like how in disc room you can change the blood color, turn it off entirely or even make it so you let out a burst of confetti! I always went with black blood cuz it's like oil basically lol
Nope. It comes from the German version, which was released together with the original in 2007. There were no birthdays back then. Birthday mode only added the cake-medkits and festive ammo boxes.
Gorn a VR gladiator game has a censored mode for gore by turning everything into candy, candy hearts, candy canes falling out of dudes and when somebody was cut in half you can see all the candy inside them
not a game but i used to watch this animation channel on youtube that would talk about hypothetical survival scenarios. They used to show red blood but they got demonetized. So in response, they made all the blood rainbow colored and guts and innards became flowers and candy. Funnily enough, after this change the scenarios they talked about only got more deadly and gorey but the art got more colorful.
3:45 Also, it's technically advanced: 2 more weapons with their own ammo type, automap and full map item like in Doom, and floor and ceiling textures! Also, enemies "death" sprites now animated I still think that launching coconuts and watermelons into animals is not very friendly, which is thing for 5th and 6th weapons... Also, stranger example is pretty adult shooter without gore: Z.A.R. is russian 90s shooter, while having heavy military topic forces you to fight ONLY against all kinds of automated vehicles and turrets, only violence against human during gameplay is when you die and have a chance to look around like ghost
Not sure if it would be censorship really but Grounded has the option to make Spiders less scary. I have no Arachnophobia, but the changed spiders look awful. They are essentially 3 floating blobs with no legs, and it looks horrible.
best censorship I've seen is in Gorn, they make all the enemy's piñatas and they have candy blood, bones and a candy heart. its even better because its a vr game
I gotta mention Nightmare Reaper's "candy" FX mode. Instead of spouting blood, they spew candy and burst into pieces of candy upon death. Not "exactly" censorship, but an honorable mention I think.
Reminds me how today's (mostly) Chinese gacha action games and even battle royale have such effects as a total replacement of blood. Which is amazing from a certain standpoint given that hit feedback still exists instead of just removing blood outright. Or if the enemy is large, make it robotic or monstrous so detachable body parts can be still shown. Also Tekken, as far as i remember, back in 3 has blood splashes (though it doesn't stick in surface or characters) but from idk 4 onwards they're replaced with the over the top energy blasts that is fan favorite.
For an example of "cute censorship" done for nonviolent reasons, the PS4 version of 20 Ladies was renamed "20 Bunnies" and replaced all the images of topless women with images of cartoon rabbits. Yes, seriously.
Paint The Town Red had an April Fool's update that added a modifier called "Green" you cold play with, which changes all the blood to flowers and it's really funny to see all the people you've just massacred surrounded by little patches of colorful flowers
Little fun fact about Pyro since the Pyro Vision was brought up: He managed to become a business owner in the comics, while being basically illiterate because of Pyro Vision
First time watcher here. I must say, very fun video, good editing, pacing, and interesting subject. Great work! Not sure what the German accent is about but it sounds pretty authentic so I don't mind.
This is crazy. Both serious sam 2 and super noahs ark 3d in one video, both random niche games that me and my friends refrence. I have never heard anyone talk about either of those before despite both being in my steam library
Gonna also recommend for those who love silly censorship versions of games "Bear Party Adventure". An old Half-Life's "Care bear" parody that turns it into a campaign. You could also say that it has Multiplayer, but the servers shut down and the Steam version just got unlisted so... Maybe you can try on LAN? What matters is the Singleplayer adventure, and it's pretty fun.
I love when there's cute censorship, but the gameplay is so, SO horrifically violent, like if Hotline Miami was pyrovision, but, BUT! An interesting idea would be that at the end of each level, the facade fades into the original artstyle, where you see the chopped off heads and blood and gore staining the halls
A few years ago, rainbow 6 siege had an april fool update that cutified the game. Therussianbadger has a video about that update. I think its called "rainbows are magic" or something like that
Another cute censorship was rainbow six sieges April fools event called rainbow is magic. All the players are either toy soldiers or the furry skins that came with the event, the hostage is a teddy bear, the whole map is a toy plane in a child’s bedroom, heck even the bullet holes are cutesy, and that’s not even scratching the surface of what the changed. I find it wild they did all of that just for a limited time event
In black ops 4 zombies, and zombies only, there's this option called cartoon mode and I don't know if it actually censored anything, but it puts everything in cell shading and it's just kinda neat
If I remember correctly, the Chex Quest opening outright states that the slime aliens are immune to conventional weapons, so teleporting them away IS the best solution. And like Civvie mentioned once, you could just be teleporting them into the upper atmosphere of their home planet, killing them anyways. You just gotta use your brain a bit to get your horrible slime carnage.
I was today years old when I found out Super Noah's Ark is a proper well-made game and not just a gospel oddity. Chex Quest, though? That's a well-known slam dunk of family-friendly action and I seriously hope more wads for it come from the modding community.
Guys, do you think Serious Sam had blood options since the beginning? Because I kind of think the older Serious Sam games already had hippie mode. Please let me know if you have any information regarding whether or not you could change the blood in Serious Sam prior to the HD remasters. As many comments as humanly possible, please.
Guys please also tell me about how Gorn does censorship, I haven't heard that Gorn turns enemies into piñatas, just let me know that I didn't talk about Gorn's censorship, thanks
Yes, I distinctly remember playing with "Hippie-Blood" in the original versions, on top of red and green. (I'm trying to remember if there was a 4th option, it could've been just "Off")
TFE and TSE both had a hippie mode, no halloween though
I remember it in second encounter
I'm positive it did. I just played Serious Sam: The Second.
I vividly remember seeing that it was a cheat code option in console ports, actually? Could be the Mandela effect but I feel like I first learned about hippie mode from a Tips and Tricks or some magazine like that
The vr game Gorn has a "low-violence" setting that changes the enemies to piñatas, and it doesn't just change the blood to candy (although it still does that), it changes the teeth to rainbow candy, exposed flesh into candy, bones into candy canes, and it makes their skin look slightly more like paper and there is a lot of those extending bits of paper commonly found on piñatas.
I was just about to mention it since its my favorite one. The idea of choosing between regular and low violence is partly why I’m curious to try it ( I have a VR headset, just a big cheapskate )
This is exactly what i thought of when i read “Cute Censorship in Video Games”
Gorn but you are piñata scp
@@SkyblueStarmoonas someone who regularly still plays Gorn, I’d recommend it
Honestly that setting was really funny, just breaking apart a living pinata that has its insides turned into litteral CANDY.
Naughty Bear is a weird example of a game built around not having actual gore but still being as violent as Manhunt
Funnily enough, Naughty Bear was made by Behaviour before they made Dead By Daylight. Seeing Naughty Bear actually IN DBD feels... *weird.*
@@samtinkle9076 And seeing anyone outside the community talk about Dbd or anything bhvr related also feels *weird* , for me dbd is still the small game nobody knows about that only i play
@@grisu1934 dbd is massive lol... like yeah its not mainstream cuz its old but it still has 50k active players on steam only lmao
@@fleggy5050 ik thats why i said "for me" since i still remember the old days when dbd was very little
@@grisu1934 damn game is nearing the decade, kinda amazing actually, still kinda remember when there was only 3 killers
I wasn't expecting a pyrocynical joke lmao.
Where? He was only talking about the Pyro from Team Fortress 2
@@Nod_Les 2:16 "No, different pyro..."
@@BX56_YT that was a GROUP HALLUCINATION
@@Terrythetortoise rofl
@@Nod_Lesfunny inflation joke 2:20
2:03 as a reference to the meet the medic short, where medic accidentally seals up Scout’s body after surgery… with his bird still in him. So, sometimes, if you kill scout with an explosive weapon, Archimedes (medic’s bird) will fly out of the gore.
I appreciate the explanation, but I already knew that 6 years ago when I made that video :P I was just surprised I kept getting them, because the chance is quite small.
pyrovision 🌈
"Mmmph mmph mmmmmph mph mmmmph!" - Pyro
@@TheBloodyMatey”Mmmph mmmmph mmh mmhhp mmmhp?” - Other Pyro
@@Rodentkaztatscomannes"Hmmm Mmmmph Mm Hmmph"
- The wise Pyro
@@Raadicality "Mmm mmmph hmmph. 😎"
-The cool Pyro
@@ShockAbe”I’m gonna use this video to address the allegations made against me. Recently, to those who are unaware, I’ve been accused of grooming a 15 year old boy when I was 19, that I’m some kind of predator and was aware of his age all along. This is categorically untrue, and a complete lie” - different pyro
"Let's the world how pyro sees the world"
Looks at sniper: gets dummy thick
"No the other pyro"
Surprised Splatoon wasn't mentioned in this video considering that it's a shooter with literally no blood. Shooting opponents? You're just covering them with ink. Killing opponents. Nope, they don't die, they just get splatted and respawn.
the development of that game is surreal the characters where gonna be entirely different species
And it would have not been a post apocalyptic horror fest.
Thats not censorship though
That game is a perfect example of what he was talking about later because it's completely designed around a premise that blood doesn't make sense in. It would feel stupid and less satisfying if it was violent.
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 alternate timeline where somehow splatoon remained as giant tofu blocks shooting each other
I feel like my favorite example of how censorship can be done poorly is in Barony. There is a thing you can toggle in the settings that claims to "Disable blood and other explicit content" and yet the only thing it removes is blood. This is a game with succubus enemies that wear very explicit outfits and yet the only thing they chose to censor was the blood and maybe some swear words
the moment when the censorship just say you can ship it under x if you remove the blood and devs goes ok removes the blood and nothing else.
Lol how would they censor the outfits? Make them nuns?
@@ChangeNameEdits literally just by filling their armor slots with undroppable statless gear (they don't wear any armor normally)
@@ChangeNameEdits yes.
@@ChangeNameEditsthere is a degree if clothing between "aggressively wrapped" and "buttock thong"
"guns shoot friendliness pellets"
" friendliness pellets"
" *friendliness pellets* "
"FRIENDLINESS PELLETS"
" *FRIENLINESS PELLETS* "
That's a wonderful idea
"Friendless thrower it throws friendless"
Flowey?!
undertale 🤑🤑🤑🤑
"Howdy Frisk I have a projectile launcher"
"Just look down the barrel there and..."
*POW*
Halo CE's Chinese censored version is particularly funny, because beyond removing blood (as expected), enemies fade after dying, rather than leaving any body. But...rather than fade with a transparency effect or something, they rapidly shrink into a speck and disappear. It makes it feel as if you have a shrink ray or something, it's rather funny.
I guess they're all just AntMan 😂
Hey, that's better than the censorship in the German Left 4 Dead, where they just fade, and zombies sometimes are completely gone before they even hit the ground. But luckily the uncensored version isn't indexed anymore and a couple years back Valve released a small DLC patch that uncensors the game. So yes, even germans can now slaughter zombies in all it's gory glory.
Splatoon is an excellent example of a kid friendly shooter with fun and engaging mechanics. Not censorship, but a good example of an alternate way to make visceral and messy graphics without gore
The pyro vision goggles also turn fire from the flamethrower into rainbows and bubbles. It makes the flame sound effect sound like bubbles as well.
In the point and click adventure Edna & Harvey: Harvey's new eyes, the player can have characters "accidentally" be brutally killed off. But luckily, everytime that happens, little gnomes helpers show up and paint anything that is not kid friendly pink. Its really shocking to see, and makes a lot of sense in the plot. Probably one of the best games to pull this kind of censorship off
Been looking for this comment!!
I know just changing the blood colour is a lesser option and all like you said but its still funny when it gets changed to something like white and the game instead becomes tons more lewd. I'm thinking like Suija's zetsumei in Samurai Shodown 5 Special or Juza's death scene in the Fist of the North Star mobile game
I also wish Mortal Kombat did something like this, just having an optional toggle that disables Fatalities entirely and makes the NRS-style Brutalities into more comical knockout supers. Instead all MK ever did was the sweat in SNES MK1 and green blood and sepia toned fatalities in Japanese SNES MK2.
Like this?
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@@GermanPeter Oh man how did I miss that video. YEAH! Duke Nukem has a lot of the funny sex stuff, why SHOULDN'T the blood be white in that series?
Something that i allways wanted to do is a whole retro fps based on this concept, Just a cute girl slaying in the cutests of ways as the glitter comes out and she laughs like a psycho with a pastel chainsaw
Sounds pretty cool
Pyroland Theme Park!
there is a retro fps where its just fashion police
I guess tf2 works for that for now
Does Lollipop Chainsaw count?
I really like the "weapon" design in Noah's Ark 3D, it's not just a simple slingshot but a bunch of different related contraptions that feel like they would actually work.
Also I wonder if people would buy a retro shooter based on the idea of it being the censored version of a classic shooter.🤔
I would be down for it.
I mean, I've actually come around to preferring the German version of HL1 over the original. I feel it has a bit more character, as janky as it is (or rather, as a result of that). Sometimes, the censored version can give you an "alternate take" on the story, which helps with replaying it.
@@GermanPeter Ok but how much of that is coloured by your love for German Barney.😜
Well, that and the robots and the fact I have lots of nostalgia for it :P I'll never forget buying it on that sunny Sunday afternoon at a flea market, for like... 3-5 bucks. Ahh, good times.
The fact that Chex Quest is actually a semi-legit DOOM/Wolfenstein knockoff franchise that started as a .wad to promote cereal to children:
@@viscountrainbows2857 for doom you also got Square's Adventure
Honestly, the idea of having cutsie visuals but violent gameplay is so appealing to me,
Like imagine a Quake game but in the style of Looney Tunes XD.
Personally these types of censorship sometimes enhance games for me
I'd buy an officially licensed Looney Tunes Quake clone in an instant that sounds like a blast.
for doom you also got Squares Adventure
for quake you got blockquake (the modder might still need a year till it gets a lego gib update)
Same
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but THE FINALS has an example of cute censorship that I really like. When you someone dies you are replaced with coins, which looks very cool and fits the virtual setting of the game
The bit at the end about Overwatch and Fortnite is a very good point! You don't need OTT gore if you have good enough *impact.* Fortnite's weapons feel punchy, and while blood would be a fun detail, they've already figured out how to make it unnecessary.
Yeah! In fact, I didn't even realize Overwatch didn't have any blood until I made this video. I thought it had at least a little, but nope!
@@GermanPeter i could have swore the characters bleed when you shoot them? im like 80% sure they at least used too.
@@sixty5notch796 It's more of a red "spark" effect from what I remember.
i dont play overwatch or overwatch 2 but maybe that is a difference between the two? Not sure as i dont play.
@@phoenixmarktwo now that you say that i can vaguely remember, but its supposed to be blood and the game was rated t for violence and blood or mild blood if i remember
I think Lollipop Chainsaw had an interesting way of dealing with it
The exploding head's in Kingsman immediately came to mind.
The VR gladiatorial brawler GORN has a funny way of censoring gore, though it is an option in-game as a kid mode. It turns the enemies into piñata dolls that spill out candy when torn apart (which happens often in GORN).
I feel like the Censorship of the german Saints Row 2 version is the worst example of how to do censorship. That version removes like half the activities in that game and puts a black bar over any cutscene that has any amount of mild violence or drug use depicted in it.
same goes with South Park
Omfg i don't even want to imagine suck a game,wtaf were the germans thinking?!
Honorable mention to "Nerf arena blast", a game that uses unreal engine and used a bunch of nerf guns.
Yeah, it was a nerf promotion, like chex, but it played so demn well.
well gazelles and ostriches dont have hands, and bears dont exactly have elegant ones, so maybe thats why they cant just eat from their own grain bags?
They can open doors
You underestimate the ingenuity of bears.
i think another fun side effect of cute censorship is that it can sometimes make the effect even more visceral. take puss in boots the last wish or digital circus episode two, when characters would explode into confetti. the way that it’s portrayed makes it even more horrifying than if they were to just explode into gibs
subversion of expectations from minute 0 second 0. excellent!
1:03 you should’ve said bubble bathss
Probably the biggest example of a generally violent franchise taking a spin towards a more child friendly route is Tiny Tiny's wonderlands.
As someone who generally enjoys bright vibrant fantasy settings much more over depressing gritty ones, i found wonderlands really charming and it really looks like a whole game that's been made with kids in mind, even if some of the actual content in the game might not be.
I like how you're approaching this with neither rabid hate nor unquestioning love.
Great video
I know it probably doesn't count, but the in-lore cognition filter from Lobotomy Corporation is an interesting example of this, even if it's only there because of time constraints.
great point near the end about why censorship doesn't work. I'd totally be down for more kid-friendly games if that's what they were built around tbh.
I love when games with predatory microtransactions and fear of missing out pay to get mechanics are built from the ground up with kids in mind. Really soothes the moral panic i get whenever a kid sees blood.
All things considered proper and good media for kids is always so hard to actually convince someone to do, theres very little money in it(at least in the context of massive AAA projects that have no business needing that much investment into a competitive scene) and whenever there is its always the first instinct to use "for kids" as a barrier to criticism rather than an opportunity to make something great.
The flower censorship in Alien Hominid reminds me of that scene in Suicide Squad, where Harley Quinn goes on a killing spree, where there's flowers everywhere, instead of blood and gore
that fucking thumbnaiul dude wtf this is fucking raw
One of my favorites is Gorn. The games a VR where you're fighting guys in an arena. In the non violent mode it makes them into pinyatas. They bleed candy bars and thier different organs are different candies. Thier eyes are gumballs, thier teeth are gumdrops, thier hearts are those heart shaped boxs of chocolate ect. I think you criticized this form of censorship but I like it here because of how high effort and fun it is.
The statement in the beginning is lies! At 8:28, you can see even more blood! I am deeply offended, and as a -67 year old, I have been eternally traumatized! (/j)
It's red paint 🙄🙄🙄
When i was in high-school I think i used to play a shooter that had a paintball option, i dont remember what game might have been a cod but i used to use it all the time because it was more visually interesting than the normal bullet holes
I always loved the lollipops, blocks, confetti and such in Fat Princess when you turn of blood and gore
i was about to say "team fortress 2 pyrovision goggles lore" until i realized you put it in the video
wait a second… this video has more than just one drop of blood! it has an intro, content, and an outro!
I mean like when it come to Going The Whole Hog, Cute Censorship and the Chex thing are the best. Also that I really do think that having your audience in mind when you make something will make the best something as well as being fun and interesting.
Another fact about Wisdom Tree: They circumvented the protection chip on the console through voltage manipulation.
A vr game called “gorn” just makes all the enemies piñatas.
Gorn turns the fighters into piñatas, they blead candy, and when you remove their heart with the stab mechanic, its a chocolate box instead.
Transforming gore into cartoon gore while still keeping the gore is actual more gorey, imagine getting rainbowd into being 1 arm 2 legs and a bunch of flat flowers
In TREPANG2, you have a low violence mode in which you can turn off the organs and make less blood splatter or choose confetti mode to turn all blood splatters into confetti and turn organs off. There's also a piñata cheat in which you can turn the organs into candy, this unlocks after beating the game once I think.
tbh i always found cute gore censoring in video games hilarious. It’s like the most violent game but you’re shooting out flowers and hearts and people are bleeding rainbows lol
I like how in disc room you can change the blood color, turn it off entirely or even make it so you let out a burst of confetti! I always went with black blood cuz it's like oil basically lol
BTW, the censorship of TF2 actually comes from the "Birthday Mode", which activates naturally on the birthday of the game.
Nope. It comes from the German version, which was released together with the original in 2007. There were no birthdays back then.
Birthday mode only added the cake-medkits and festive ammo boxes.
Gorn, a VR gladiator game, actually has a features that turns all the fighters into piñatas. Candy bones, candy insides, even a candy heart.
2:22 You can also change it so that gore is replaced with springs and gears on your Pov without Pyrovision.
Gorn a VR gladiator game has a censored mode for gore by turning everything into candy, candy hearts, candy canes falling out of dudes and when somebody was cut in half you can see all the candy inside them
not a game but i used to watch this animation channel on youtube that would talk about hypothetical survival scenarios. They used to show red blood but they got demonetized. So in response, they made all the blood rainbow colored and guts and innards became flowers and candy. Funnily enough, after this change the scenarios they talked about only got more deadly and gorey but the art got more colorful.
00:49 RUN INTO THE -BULLETS- friendliness pellets
0:00 this content warning really really scared the hell out of me i dont know what gory blood and organs on the floor will be in this video
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Also, it's technically advanced: 2 more weapons with their own ammo type, automap and full map item like in Doom, and floor and ceiling textures! Also, enemies "death" sprites now animated
I still think that launching coconuts and watermelons into animals is not very friendly, which is thing for 5th and 6th weapons...
Also, stranger example is pretty adult shooter without gore: Z.A.R. is russian 90s shooter, while having heavy military topic forces you to fight ONLY against all kinds of automated vehicles and turrets, only violence against human during gameplay is when you die and have a chance to look around like ghost
Not sure if it would be censorship really but Grounded has the option to make Spiders less scary.
I have no Arachnophobia, but the changed spiders look awful. They are essentially 3 floating blobs with no legs, and it looks horrible.
It's not for you, then. Yes, they look horrible, because they remove everything that makes them resemble a spider. It really helps with the phobia.
In the original carmageddon there was a zombie mode instead of the peds
best censorship I've seen is in Gorn, they make all the enemy's piñatas and they have candy blood, bones and a candy heart. its even better because its a vr game
friendlieness pellets, try to collect them all!
In Trepang2, there's an option in the settings to turn blood into confetti. I always have that setting turned on just because it's fun.
"What if guns didn't shoot bullets, but friendliness pellets?"
oh no
If blood ain't spraying, I ain't playing.
I love The Adventures of Square
There was recently discovered a "FUN" mode in Manhunt 2, one of the most gruesome videogames of all time.
in gorn ( a goofy vr colosseum game) you can enable a mode where all the enimies become pinatas and spew out candy
Pyrocincal joke was top tier
Gorn VR also has this, turning the normal gladiator enemies and turning them into piñatas
A game I will probably develop has a normal version with all the violent and gruesome deaths, and a bloodless version with censorship.
I gotta mention Nightmare Reaper's "candy" FX mode. Instead of spouting blood, they spew candy and burst into pieces of candy upon death. Not "exactly" censorship, but an honorable mention I think.
Reminds me how today's (mostly) Chinese gacha action games and even battle royale have such effects as a total replacement of blood. Which is amazing from a certain standpoint given that hit feedback still exists instead of just removing blood outright. Or if the enemy is large, make it robotic or monstrous so detachable body parts can be still shown.
Also Tekken, as far as i remember, back in 3 has blood splashes (though it doesn't stick in surface or characters) but from idk 4 onwards they're replaced with the over the top energy blasts that is fan favorite.
Yay, another gerbil pepper video. I mistyped "GermanPeter" on purpose.
I was expecting you to talk about Splatoon, but it’s okay
Well, I wanted to talk about bloodless games that are actually fun to me :P
@@GermanPeter I can't believe you'd dare imply Splatoon isn't fun. 😤
The VR game gorn has a mode where you can turn the enemies into cute little pinatas and the blood is replaced with confetti 🎊
In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, they had a whole kid themed event. I know it had cool things instead of blood and gore but i forgot
For an example of "cute censorship" done for nonviolent reasons, the PS4 version of 20 Ladies was renamed "20 Bunnies" and replaced all the images of topless women with images of cartoon rabbits. Yes, seriously.
Gonna be honest, after having seen what the ladies looked like... yeah, the bunnies were a better choice.
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I remember Jet Force Gemini having a cheat toggle “kid mode” option that was just rainbow blood.
Paint The Town Red had an April Fool's update that added a modifier called "Green" you cold play with, which changes all the blood to flowers and it's really funny to see all the people you've just massacred surrounded by little patches of colorful flowers
Little fun fact about Pyro since the Pyro Vision was brought up: He managed to become a business owner in the comics, while being basically illiterate because of Pyro Vision
10:04 unicore costume in doom eternal, and confeti explosion on headshot in halo
Bro when you said "friendliness pellets" the flowey laugh played in my head
"heheheheHAHAHAHA~" like that?
First time watcher here. I must say, very fun video, good editing, pacing, and interesting subject. Great work! Not sure what the German accent is about but it sounds pretty authentic so I don't mind.
Yeah, I wanted to try something different with the accent. Glad you liked it!
2:21 i like how everyone pokes fun at pyrocynical any chance they get
This is crazy. Both serious sam 2 and super noahs ark 3d in one video, both random niche games that me and my friends refrence. I have never heard anyone talk about either of those before despite both being in my steam library
That thumbnail is just perfection
Gonna also recommend for those who love silly censorship versions of games "Bear Party Adventure".
An old Half-Life's "Care bear" parody that turns it into a campaign.
You could also say that it has Multiplayer, but the servers shut down and the Steam version just got unlisted so... Maybe you can try on LAN?
What matters is the Singleplayer adventure, and it's pretty fun.
The fist thing I thought of was how they changed the blood to sparkles in joker's final smash
0:47 no...
That thumbnail looks like a banksy
I love when there's cute censorship, but the gameplay is so, SO horrifically violent, like if Hotline Miami was pyrovision, but, BUT! An interesting idea would be that at the end of each level, the facade fades into the original artstyle, where you see the chopped off heads and blood and gore staining the halls
A few years ago, rainbow 6 siege had an april fool update that cutified the game.
Therussianbadger has a video about that update.
I think its called "rainbows are magic" or something like that
Another cute censorship was rainbow six sieges April fools event called rainbow is magic. All the players are either toy soldiers or the furry skins that came with the event, the hostage is a teddy bear, the whole map is a toy plane in a child’s bedroom, heck even the bullet holes are cutesy, and that’s not even scratching the surface of what the changed. I find it wild they did all of that just for a limited time event
In black ops 4 zombies, and zombies only, there's this option called cartoon mode and I don't know if it actually censored anything, but it puts everything in cell shading and it's just kinda neat
i actually got super noahs 3d ark from a random key and its.. interesting to say the least
there was indeed more than one drop of blood in this video
especially GORN a VR game that changes gore into candy and piñatas.
If I remember correctly, the Chex Quest opening outright states that the slime aliens are immune to conventional weapons, so teleporting them away IS the best solution.
And like Civvie mentioned once, you could just be teleporting them into the upper atmosphere of their home planet, killing them anyways. You just gotta use your brain a bit to get your horrible slime carnage.
No, that's horrible. Not everything needs to die. I find it absolutely perfect that they're just teleported away in one piece.
I was today years old when I found out Super Noah's Ark is a proper well-made game and not just a gospel oddity. Chex Quest, though? That's a well-known slam dunk of family-friendly action and I seriously hope more wads for it come from the modding community.