Xexyz US/Japan comparison

Updated description with more detail.

First = US
Second = Japan

This contains rarely viewed comparisons between the american and japanese version of Xexyz, an exelent Nintendo game, with exelent music. The japanese title is "Kame no Ongaeshi - Urashima Densetsu". The assortment of differences may astound you. There is not other vid about this, so this is a rare video at that.

This comes from a section on androidarts.com


"This is the story from the intro of the game. I'm not sure what the manual says. The hero of the story is a guy named Ken Urashima, and he's a descendant of the legendary Urashima Tarou. While standing on a polluted beach, pondering... the pollution, he spots a crab tormenting a turtle (both rather large). Ken, being somewhat of a wizard, nukes the crab. The grateful Turtle tells Ken to ride on his back, because apparently Ken is the right man for some task which lies ahead.

So they fly through some kind of warp space and end up in the Dragon Kingdom. The turtle explains that they have been invaded by the 'Machine Beast Empire' and are in dire need of help. So, the turtle gives him the 'Brigandine' armour, and Ken sets out to save the princess 'Otohime'.

On his journey he meets a bunch of talking dogs, frogs, a ghost king, fairies, a collection of princesses, silly girls, Blue Landers (except they're probably something else), and other strange stuff. It ends with Ken saving all the princesses, piloting a giant turtle ship and destroying a Space Fortress. For his trouble he gets a present, a so called 'tamatebako'. If he opens it he returns to the beach (minus the pollution) and a girl looking just like Otohime is promptly asking him to marry her. If he doesn't open the box he gets to marry the real Otohime and becomes the king of the Dragon Kingdom. If he throws it away he's returned to the beach (minus the pollution) and then he's turned into a little ball. Bad end."

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[camaxtle]

i like the us version more,because it feels more like an ancient planet...and because of no intro you imagine the causes and whys you are on that planet...

[silenceofthehills]

@camaxtle

I definitely love the US version from what I remember as a kid, but this intro was new content to me, and gave reason for being there. Of course, there is the manuel, but they should have made a new intro instead. You can't really imagine much past the manual input anyhow.

After that, the original was supposed to be kinda the same type of "ancient" planet as well, I guess. A weird far away land.

[silenceofthehills]

@camaxtle

To be honest, there is too little difference, so to me, the Japanese version fars a bit better. the NES version's lack of multiple endings could be considered a lack of replayability. It has passwords for endless boss, but they only do but so much.

Some designs are better on the Japanese version, and some the American. The dance is a bt silly, but i'd rather them replace the scene over removing it, maybe a reuniting scenario similar to the dance, but without dancing.

[brianvgplayer]

@silenceofthehills The JP version actually has the extra passwords, as well. I tried the US Passwords in the JP version and they work!

[silenceofthehills]

@brianvgplayer

I guess that means the US version has nothing over the Japanese version then, at least gameplay wise. You can skip the openning and all to begin with, so nothing they took out was a nuisance. Personally, the Japanese version I find interesting for having all these differences. I think i'll do more, like of different versions of the game, as I did Sparkster. I want to do Toy Story and more.

[austinmackert]

Wow, that's very interesting.. Xexyz is one of my favorite NES games and I had no idea the Japanese version was so different in places. Thank you for uploading this!

[silenceofthehills]

@austinmackert

Your welcome. :)

[OnBeingHuman]

This game is serious great... and super under-rated.

[hansmohlman]

Awesome! This game doesn't get the love it deserves. I played the crap out of it when I was younger. It still ranks high on my all-time list.

[momihog]

ちゃんと通じるか不安だけど...

Greeting from Japan.

Thank you for explaining the difference point of Xexyz and 亀の恩返し.

The fairy tale "Urashima Taro" of Japan is a motif in this though the people of Gaijin that sees this animation might feel the content of a Japanese version strange.

Therefore, the hero is a descendant of Taro, and the turtle is a motif in his fighter.

[xexyz]

wow had no idea of the differences 

[camaxtle]

@silenceofthehills EXACTLY ;)

[jibblesmgee]

6:43 "Turtle Power!"

[SF2Guile]

I got this game as a b-day present. One of my favorite games.