In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Admiral Dane expresses his frustration with the Space Pirates by letting out a rather mild profanity. “Damn,” to be precise. In the Metroid Prime Trilogy, which released a week ago, it’s been scrubbed.
See for yourself in the above comparison, uploaded yesterday by YouTube user ThunderChaosStudios. The cleanup didn’t affect the rating process at all. All three games in the trilogy were originally rated teen, and so is the trilogy. One wonders why someone went to the trouble of eliminating the only(?) swear word in the game, one you hear on television daily.
I’ve contacted a Nintendo public relations rep for comment. If we hear back, we’ll update the post here.
Metroid Prime: Corruptions Admiral Dane Drops the Curse Word [GoNintendo via Joystiq]
ChoM
September 1, 2009 at 12:01 PM
‘Damn’ counts as profanity??? LOL
Report PermalinkAl
September 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM
doing that for disaster day of crisis, probably the only nintendo game to include the s-word would have killed a heap of spoken dialogue.
Report PermalinkCraig Oats
September 1, 2009 at 12:45 PM
What is this? 1983? Loll.
Report PermalinkTrent
September 1, 2009 at 2:39 PM
This counts as news…why?
Report PermalinkBlah2
September 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I don’t see it as a big deal either way, Nintendo like to make there games very friendly, it may have offended some 35 year old mother somewhere screaming “won’t somebody please think of the children!”
Report PermalinkHieronimus Kava
September 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM
My chemistry teacher said “damn” today. We still found it funny, haha. I’m 18 by the way. And yeah I still find that funny.
Report Permalinkmambodog
September 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Damn and blast!
Report PermalinkJames
September 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Well, thank f*** for that, swearing really s**ts me.
Report PermalinkCheezel
September 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM
The only thing i think about when i hear Ninty getting all uppity about language is, “How the *^#$ &#&#ing #&%$ !^&@ did Conker’s Bad Fur Day get onto the N64? And why was it toned down later? :S”
Report Permalinkkiv
May 31, 2011 at 5:02 PM
***** *** **** ****** all the ***** with the ****** goat ********* ***** lawnmower in the ****** to the moon!
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