Been planning on compiling these examples for a few years but never got around to it until now lol.
Now I know most people are aware of the censorship of the holidays and the gender swapping of some characters in the localization, but I don't know how many people are aware of the frankly bizarre censorship in New Horizons where they attempted to make it "vegan friendly". Anyone who has played the series before knows that if you donate fish to the museum you get some facts about them, and that often involves how they taste, how they are cooked, etc. But New Horizons completely scrubbed all of that from the localization, and also made changes to items in the game made from animals (like leather) to make them "fake". Though I guess this was before the localizers had control over what the Japanese side was doing, since they patched cooking into the game later on that rained on their vegan parade.
I'm not going to translate all of these examples because there is a ton of them and that is a pain in the neck, but I translated the relevant words and phrases and added the localized version for comparison.
Now I know most people are aware of the censorship of the holidays and the gender swapping of some characters in the localization, but I don't know how many people are aware of the frankly bizarre censorship in New Horizons where they attempted to make it "vegan friendly". Anyone who has played the series before knows that if you donate fish to the museum you get some facts about them, and that often involves how they taste, how they are cooked, etc. But New Horizons completely scrubbed all of that from the localization, and also made changes to items in the game made from animals (like leather) to make them "fake". Though I guess this was before the localizers had control over what the Japanese side was doing, since they patched cooking into the game later on that rained on their vegan parade.
I'm not going to translate all of these examples because there is a ton of them and that is a pain in the neck, but I translated the relevant words and phrases and added the localized version for comparison.