classroom of the elite season 3 ep 1 seven. deadly sins
GS: You experienced your share of ups and downs during your time at SNK. Among them, the censored release of the home AES version of Samurai Shodown and the poorly managed US release of the NeoGeo CD unit. Can you provide some background as to why Samurai Shodown was censored in the US and what reactions were inside the company toward selling the edited game? SNK of America didn't realize the US version of Samurai Shodown was censored until it was too late to do anything about it. CO:To be honest, we didn't know that Samurai Shodown was edited until it was too late to do anything about it. SNK Japan had started to release home versions of English games to Europe before sending them to the US and didn't give us any input into how a particular game would be localized for the North American market. By the time that Samurai Shodown had reached our warehouse, gray-market versions from Europe had already penetrated the US region, so the company was already in a hurry to just release the game already. Personally, I loved this game from the start. When I received Samurai Shodown and found out it had been censored, I was disappointed. I remember approaching Marty Kitazawa, the president of SNK America, about this fiasco to try to find out what happened and what they were thinking. The only thing he told me was, "Yes, the home version is censored. " I later learned that SNK decided to play it safe because of all the lawsuits and negative publicity surrounding a number of other violent video games of the time.
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