FAQ

Except the Japanese release, every version worldwide contains a more or less censored version of the game. For the US release one cutscene containing nudity had to be altered (the intro video). This is the only alteration made for the US version. Unfortunately this slightly censored US version had to be altered even more for the European release. The reason for that was the UK's regulations regarding weapons that could inspire children to imitate the use of them. The most famous example for such weapons are nunchucks which had to be cut out in nearly every UK release (games and movies) until the reformation of those guidelines around the year 2000. Since nunchucks are a basic weapon in the original Japanese version they had to be altered to make a UK release possible. Like many times every PAL version (Europe, Australia) contains the same version. This way, the publisher could spare costs and did not have to make a separate version only for the UK. In the end, a lot of countries got a double censored version although their regulations do neither forbid nudity nor nunchucks.