Enix Denies US Release of Dragon Quest VII

Enix America representative John Lawrence expressed to GameSpot that reports of a censored US release of Dragon Quest VII, to be known as Dragon Warrior 7, were completely unfounded. While he did not deny the possibility of a future US version of Dragon Quest VII, he stated that no official announcement of a US version has been made yet, and that if a US version is released, gamers need not fear the rumored censorship of religious matter in the game. Lawrence said,

“Anything that has to deal with the North American market will be coming out of our office. So, I have no idea where these guys picked this up. The other thing that was really weird was that whole thing about the censorship. That just doesn’t hold any water at all. We make those decisions, and our philosophy and our policy is to keep the games as similar to the Japanese content as possible. We’ve demonstrated that in Dragon Warrior and Dragon Warrior II by keeping in a lot of things that Nintendo had originally taken out of the NES version. For example, the puff puff scene didn’t make it into the NES version, but we did keep them in the Game Boy Color version that we put out. So, anything like that about taking stuff out for religious content and stuff like that is total bull.”