8 Times Censorship Almost Ruined Your Favourite Video Games

Showing up in every major game released so far, torture scenes are a staple of the Metal Gear Solid franchise. With each game including at least one sequence that sees the protagonist bound and beaten, it's no surprise MGS has become familiar with international censors over the years.

While these scenes resulted in some of the more extreme moments of violence being cut or obscured in some territories however, after multiple sequels the MGS team decided to get creative for the Japanese release of the PSP spin-off, Peace Walker.

Instead of removing gore or toning down the violence to avoid the censors, the developers opted to change the scene entirely. While he was originally being tortured for information by lightning rods, in the Japanese version Snake's gets punished by... tickle rods.

Completely changing the tone, in this new scene Snake is effectively being tickled to death, and it's hard to take the whole torture seriously as a result. Then again, if Snake is into this kind of stuff, then who am I to say it's wrong or weird?