Talk:Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Japanese only death animation?
I remember reading something on Did You Know Gaming? concerning that a death animation for Crash getting Crushed was removed for being too offensive to Japanese gamers because of a infamous murderer at the time who always chopped the heads off of their victims and left them by their shoes. It frightened me at first, but now I think it's mundane. Call me a masochist. TheRoflGuy (talk) 12:04, 6 March 2014 (EST)


 * I am VERY hesitant to believe this without hard evidence, as DYKG have a known tendacy to either misinterpret or sensationalize unclear information in their videos (their coverage of Luigi's Mansion being a prime example), and a lot of the time don't actually do their own research to facilitate their findings, merely basing what they find on speculation either of their own or of who covered the information in particular. I'm not saying this is total bullshit, as it may well be true, but until somebody with a Japanese copy/ISO checks to clarify, this is all but a rumour. Crashandcortex (talk) 13:26, 6 March 2014 (EST)


 * A quick search yields this Japanese mistake video. The ones I first thought of (falling down a pit and being crushed) are intact, so consider this debunked. LinkTheLefty (talk) 14:54, 6 March 2014 (EST)


 * Found the source of the "fact": Andy Gavin's blog. "Whether it was giving Aku Aku pop up text instructions, or replace a Crash smashing “death” that reminded them of the severed head and shoes left by a serial killer that was loose in Japan during Crash 2’s release, we focused on Japan and fought hard for acceptance and success." -Einstein95 (talk) 17:24, 6 March 2014 (EST)