How Shadow The Hedgehog Was Censored

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This video takes a look at how Shadow The Hedgehog was toned down during development to lower its ESRB rating from Teen to E10+.

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[DBZZack]

"You're going straight to hell!" That's fine, leave in it.
"What the hell--" NOPE! Take it out!
gg SEGA

[BLOODY__FATALITY]

The cgi cutscenes in this game were amazing in quality. Especially for the time.

[flarestorm]

4:20
*Developer 1:* "We need an image of Maria Robotnik for a card in Sonic Rivals, but we don't want to make new assests. What should we use?"
*Developer 2:* "How about the image of her getting shot?"
*Developer 1:* "Brilliant!"

[WillcraftAnimations]

> Try to capture the older audience.
> Get an E10+ rating.

Fuckin' pick one.

[CattyMintgum]

Beta: "CRAWLING IN MY SKINNN, THESE WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEAL."

Final: "CRAWLING IN MY SKINNN, THESE WOUNDS WILL heal eventually, Just give it a few hours."

[mastervidxad]

Where's that DAMN fourth chaos emerald?!?!?

[Mendinso]

I know one line they removed was Sonic saying "I hate to piss of the GUN Soliders...", with Piss being changed to Tick.

[poltergeistchan]

How about we crank up that rating to M? Who doesn't wanna hear Shadow the Hedgehog say "fuck"

[TheJoseluisperez]

So "ow the edge" was supposed to be even edgyer

[MadeExpress]

We need a PC rerelease. Imagine the mods that would make this game so much better. I like it as it is already though.

[MANNY]

Hell... If they bring this game back with it's original content and "T" rating, I'd buy that damn thing. xD

[true-blue]

It was supposed to have even more EDGE?

[Clampp]

I feel as though if this game was rated T, people wouldn't have been so hard on it.

[shrektheogre]

I actually liked this game but playing it 10 fucking times to get the true ending was bullshit

[zelectrode]

In the end, Vector never found the computer room, and Shadow never found that *DAMN* fourth Chaos Emerald.

EDIT: Coming back 9 months later, I never thought I'd get this many likes. Nice.

[fullmetalgamer]

In one sequence of the game, Shadow told Eggman that Eggman was "going straight to hell." The commander uses the word as well, so removing "hell" was unnecessary.

[greenswag]

When you're the only one who liked this game.

[Byakkoya]

Edgy the Hedgy was going to be even edgier?

The more you know.

[TheRealDustinNunn]

Censored or uncensored, Shadow the Hedgehog was a really fun game. I always liked nuking my enemies with Chaos Blast.

[leglessrestsyndrome]

1:42 He talks about Sonic-Fanart. He got PTSD because of it.