Censored?

[devilfox091]

is this game and other parts censored anime have a lot of violence and blood and is there any censoring or it is no censoring everything is uncensored

[fllthdcrb]

There is very little in the way of visuals. Just blurry backgrounds (which are actually photos that have been artistically blurred) and character art. The descriptions can get a bit violent and/or gory on occasion, and there are a handful of humorously lewd lines. Almost nothing is censored, because it doesn't need to be censored. (There was one instance of a child character appearing nude (not in a sexual way, mind you) in one of the arcs, which has been removed in almost all versions, including this one.)

The console versions censor the lewd lines I mentioned, as well as a few references to trademarks and copyrighted characters (e.g. in Ch.1, there is the thing about "Kenta-kun", aka Colonel Sanders, which they changed to "Randy-kun", or "Colonel Randy" in English). If you get 07th Mod, which makes this Steam version very much like the PS3 version, there is an option to adjust how the text is matched to voices, because the voice lines correspond to the censored PS3 text.

[Kenshiro3]

Originally posted by devilfox091:

is this game and other parts censored anime have a lot of violence and blood and is there any censoring or it is no censoring everything is uncensored

there definitely IS some censorship in the dialogue. The only real instance I was able to notice was in the third ep... where its HEAVILY implied that Satoko is not only physically and emotionally abused by her uncle, but sexually as well. Her uncle was basically molesting her and pimping her out to his friends. During her freak out, she quite obviously starts having a flashback to an episode of her uncle's abuse... and ranting about how "its nasty" and she "doesn't want it" and she's quite obviously not talking about food. They completely removed that part from her freak out in the steam version....

[fllthdcrb]

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

there definitely IS some censorship in the dialogue.

There's a difference between censorship—something imposed by publishers or others apart from the author—and the author simply choosing to limit how explicit they get.

The only real instance I was able to notice was in the third ep... where its HEAVILY implied that Satoko is not only physically and emotionally abused by her uncle, but sexually as well. Her uncle was basically molesting her and pimping her out to his friends. During her freak out, she quite obviously starts having a flashback to an episode of her uncle's abuse... and ranting about how "its nasty" and she "doesn't want it" and she's quite obviously not talking about food. They completely removed that part from her freak out in the steam version....

Um, no, they didn't. I just looked at the copy I have, and it's still there, albeit translated a little differently. "No more, no more... I hate this I hate this... ee... eeee!!!" ... " I don't wanna be scared... it feels bad... no... I don't... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!" etc.

But you know who did censor Higurashi? Alchemist. They are the ones who did the PS2/3 ports. If you're using 07th Mod, which I suspect is what you're doing, it also (optionally) censors the text, so that it matches the PS3 voices. But you can set the voice matching level to 0, and any original text that doesn't match is allowed to not match; any part that was cut out just goes without any voices.