No More Heroes: possible U.S. boxart, possible attempt at placation from European publisher

by JC Fletcher { Dec 15th 2007 at 2:00PM }

Two interesting items related to localized versions of No More Heroes have popped up, and we decided to combine them despite the fact that they don't necessarily relate to one another. First, Amazon's page for the American version of No More Heroes now contains a boxart image. We have no idea if it's the final boxart or a placeholder, but it's cool and doesn't have too much clutter.

The other news tidbit is that Rising Star Games has apparently been responding to angry emails from European gamers who want ichor. The message, as reported by NeoGAFfer Dachande, says not to "rule out a revised, 18+ version released some time in 2008 incidentally."

If this happens, it's either a fan-pleasing move or an open grab at double-dippers' wallets -- or a confusing bit of marketing that will make people hesitate to buy the game the first time and, at worst, forget to buy it the second time. Most likely the statement is just Rising Star's way of trying to get people to leave them alone about the blood thing.

Tags: boxart, censorship, no-more-heroes, rising-star-games, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shadow31 @ Dec 15th 2007 2:20PM

If that's Rising Star's way of trying to get people to drop this issue... horrible idea. They say that, and there will be people holding out on buying the game so they could get the so called "revised, 18+ version". All they will do is hurt their potential sales. Maybe not dramatically, but enough to make it not worth just giving a flat out "no".

Shadow31 @ Dec 15th 2007 2:21PM

Sorry, worth, I said not worth, meant worth.

ALH @ Dec 15th 2007 2:23PM

ouch, that ubisoft logo looks like a football or something. Ruins the flow of the box, your eye is drawn down travis's leg to it instead of up from there to the no more heroes logo

ssuk @ Dec 15th 2007 2:36PM

I think it's colours which do that, more than it's shape. Needs monochroming and it'll probably fit right in.

Joshua @ Dec 15th 2007 2:42PM

Yeah, the Ubisoft logo gets in the way, but the rest of the box is very nice.

Mr Khan @ Dec 15th 2007 2:45PM

I agree with Shadow, this will just engender confusion and reduce sales, especially if that "revised, 18+ version" never surfaces

sn1per @ Dec 15th 2007 2:45PM

So does this mean that the game got an M rating, and they won't need to censor it in the US? Cause I remember reading somewhere that Suda said it would be more violent than manhunt 2.

ZagZagovich @ Dec 15th 2007 3:02PM

That's a great box art. I wouldn't mind buying it. Even thought it would cost a fortune here. Also I'm ready to wait for the uncensored version. I waited for Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 3 so this won't be a hard time for me.

Atlantis1982 @ Dec 15th 2007 3:22PM

I liked the Japan cover art more. >.>

Serious Kano @ Dec 16th 2007 8:34AM

ok, now i'm confused. does that mean that europe will get the bloodless version and then, maybe, a blood-containing version will come out? what's the point of doing this? they should either give us the uncensored game or the censored one. that's lame.

Ethan @ Dec 15th 2007 6:00PM

Is he giving us the V-sign? How very towers of london of him.

AshStampede @ Dec 15th 2007 7:22PM

I saw the video of the uncensored vs censored version. I perfer the edited with ashes instead of blood. Being cel-shaded and that over the top blood just did seem to fit. I wont wait for any uncensored version here in the uk, will get the game on release day in what ever form. whatever happen to games with parental controls or a "turn blood off" then you could just have one version of you game that delievered both ends of the spectrum.

Shadow31 @ Dec 15th 2007 7:40PM

Here's what happened. The happy people at ESRB were given a group concussion and now think they are the parents of everyone in the world. So, wanting to be responsible parents but unable to watch all their children at the same time, they decided they needed to make sure any hint of violence was unattainable by... well, everybody.

Basically, ESRB does not trust parents with parental controls, so seperate versions must exist (if ESRB so allows it).