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9601394 No.9601394 [Reply] [Original]

Why were localizations for the English market usually toned down in difficulty? Is it because Japanese people think Americans are stupid or some other reason.

>> No.9601395

*laughs in DMC3*

>> No.9601398

>>9601394
> Japanese version of Battletoads is actually easier with Turbo Tunnel cut in half

Even japs thought it's a little too much of bullshit.

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>>9601394
It was mostly rpg's that did that as the genre was still very niche in the western console market at the time. There are plenty of other games like Streets of Rage 3 here where they were made way harder outside of Japan largely people just renting a game and beating it

>> No.9601449

>>9601423
Yeah that makes sense. I guess I just play a lot of RPGs.

>> No.9601464

>>9601394
probably because the one 55 year old play tester that US game companies use to test every game before it's distributed locally says they're too hard because they think the only people that play games are children