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Mugen Souls series is better in Japan, The Puritanical States doesn't want you bathing a loli much less seeing one nude.

Criminal Girls will be better in Japan, the Puritanical States of America doesn't want you having your way with lolis and the feminazis don't want you spanking females, NISA please think next time before localizing something like this. Want this, import, it's a decent RPG.

Bravely Default is better in Japan for some but not for most gamers. It's no big deal for me.

Monster Monpiece is a disaster in the US, import it and you get the full experience, but I don't recommend it, it's the most imbalanced and boring game I've played in years.

How about the upcoming title Neptunia U? If it gets localized version it will be better in Japan, no way in hell Censor Factory will let the localized keep the Rom and Ram fanservice. Import and tell censorship to go screw itself.

Never ever buy a fanservice game localized unless you are 100% sure the tits, ass, and possibly loli isn't censored or unless it's Senran Kagura.

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Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams is better in Japan as it 1. has the story intact and 2. has English and several other languages for the text and 3. It's cheaper to buy ($60 for JP over $300-800 for US version).

ST-V arcade boards are better in Japan as if you play ST-V games on US boards, you miss out on vital features, think about that before wanting to play Radiant Silvergun on the ST-V.

Yu-Gi-Oh games are better in Japan as the earlier card art is better and uncensored.

Puyo Puyo was better in Japan well until around the GBA days, those dolled up installments we got are a slap to the face and bad marketing, the localization teams should've went to Japan and watched the commercials because the best idea was to market the game to women and girls.

Castlevania (NES-PS1) are better in Japan, less or no censoring at all.

DDR arcade cabinets are better in Japan and that goes for many other rhythm arcade titles.

I wouldn't say better but DJ Boy has everything in it's entirety in Japan (including the racial stereotypes).

Breath of Fire 2 and 4 are better in Japan due to the localization teams removing abilities, the censorship didn't bother me much.
 

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Megaman Zero replaced instances of "die" or "kill" into "retire"

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Later on in the series they seem to use "perish" or "meet your end" instead, which at least is less jarring.
 

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Megaman Zero replaced instances of "die" or "kill" into "retire"

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Later on in the series they seem to use "perish" or "meet your end" instead, which at least is less jarring.

Despite it being easier to replace with kill if I edited that I would probably put retire in quotes.
 

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In the last Pokémon Mystery Dungeon they decided to remove the gender outside Japan. It's weird because you still get a definition of Virizion, Emolga, Dunsparce and all the other characters in the story. The only confused genre in the whole story now is your partner.
 

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DDR arcade cabinets are better in Japan and that goes for many other rhythm arcade titles.
To be fair arcades are all but dead in the west. It's not even that they're better, it's that they often don't even leave Japan in the first place. Try finding something like DDR 2014, Jubeat Saucer or IIDX Spada within a 200 mile radius. Unless you live near one of the few arcades in the non-japanese world that have these games (I think there's one in Sunnyvale, other than that idk) you're pretty much fucked.
 

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Despite it being easier to replace with kill if I edited that I would probably put retire in quotes.
They did seem to do that in the second game.

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It's been a while since I played them, so I don't remember whether "retiring" is used less as the series progressed, or if I just simply stopped noticing it.
 

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Sonic the Hedgehog has scrolling clouds in japan. US missed out on that. Contra in japan has moving backgrounds. Gamesack did a video recently about this.
 

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To be fair arcades are all but dead in the west. It's not even that they're better, it's that they often don't even leave Japan in the first place. Try finding something like DDR 2014, Jubeat Saucer or IIDX Spada within a 200 mile radius. Unless you live near one of the few arcades in the non-japanese world that have these games (I think there's one in Sunnyvale, other than that idk) you're pretty much fucked.

They've also pretty much blocked the exportation of most of their arcade games... quite a few arcade games are internet-enabled nowadays, and so most (if not all) of the machines for, say, the latest DDR and IIDX in the west will be connected to a community-run private server. And good luck finding a Sound Voltex machine outside of Japan; Konami only offers them for lease, which makes exportation of said machines problematic and causes complications with connectivity to the servers.
 

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Parlor Games - Master System: In Japan the girls have bunny ears. USA had them taken away. I find this disappointing. :(
 

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Sonic the Hedgehog has scrolling clouds in japan. US missed out on that. Contra in japan has moving backgrounds. Gamesack did a video recently about this.


Both of these happened because of later release dates, similar stuff happened with "broken" games when they were released on the USA too. (I saw one but right now, I can't remember :|)
 

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To be fair arcades are all but dead in the west. It's not even that they're better, it's that they often don't even leave Japan in the first place. Try finding something like DDR 2014, Jubeat Saucer or IIDX Spada within a 200 mile radius. Unless you live near one of the few arcades in the non-japanese world that have these games (I think there's one in Sunnyvale, other than that idk) you're pretty much fucked.

Even worse Arcades have a Steam-like service now to download the games, which pretty much makes MAME useless for those games.
 
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Even worse Arcades have a Steam-like service now to download the games, which pretty much makes MAME useless for those games.
Most of those games run on some version of Windows on a regular PC now anyway. The problem is they're encrypted and protected to hell (especially SEGA's stuff from what I've heard) AND many modern ones need to be connected to a custom online network.
 

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Most of those games run on some version of Windows on a regular PC now anyway. The problem is they're encrypted and protected to hell (especially SEGA's stuff from what I've heard) AND many modern ones need to be connected to a custom online network.

The later Gundam Vs titles (Extreme Vs, Full Boost, and Maxi Boost) have the custom network which makes them impossible to run outside of Asia, thank goodness they end up being ported to consoles because they are excellent games. I also think of Raiden DX, while it was ported to consoles, it isn't playable on MAME due to the encryption being so tight on it.
 

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