Oh right! Yeah Cybernator got problems. What I really can't forgive is removing Satoshi "HENTAI COLONEL" Urushihara's beautiful character portraits! I get early 90s Nintendo being skittish with the ol' child soldiers and Budd Dwyer tributes, but cutting the panels is just butchery.xxx1993 wrote:I meant Gunhound EX was more poorly written than the localized version of Assault Suits Valken.
Maybe there was some tech reason, like EN text eating up space, or whatever. Ditching the Leynos stinger is meanwhile just the sort of ham-handed treatment de rigeur of cross-platform series at the time (see Technos fracturing their stalwart mascot Kunio into like five different, unrelated characters because Reasons)
Come to think of it, Leynos's Target Earth localisation has some cuts too. I know they censored st3's poor buddy who doesn't make it back to the dropship in time, burning to death on re-entry. Ironically that's exactly the grisly fate you save the kid from in Valken.