Unleashed Patches Remove Holoska Swastikas
Tristan Oliver | April 29, 2009
Controversial Symbol No Longer Has Icy Grip
Back in November, TSSZ News reported on the spotting of a swastika-like symbol in Sonic Unleashed‘s daytime levels. The discovery was initially found by German Sega fansite Sega Portal, and for reasons that draw back to Germany’s period under Nazi rule, the reasons for concern were obvious. Still, many of our readers and commenters shrugged off the snafu.
Today, we’ve learned Sega wasn’t so quick to shrug it off.
Astute Sonic Stadium forum member JezMM noticed a change with the recent patches made to the game–those swastikas are gone. The image you see above and to the left shows the original pattern before the patch, taken by the forumer. You’ll note that both the offending swastika and a reverse one exist as a texture map. The reverse swastika is a symbol in a rather peaceful Buddhist religion.
Compare that to the image below from the same area, taken after the patches were applied. You can see that those swastikas are now squares.
It is unclear whether these changes were made with the first patch or the more recent patch released yesterday. UPDATE: Reader blueblur is telling us that the changes took effect with the first Unleashed patch.
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lol seems like the Eskimos are Nazi Buddhists.
Seeing close up screenshots like this remind me how refreshing it is not to see Sonic being overgrown with bounce braclets, magic gloves, and wacky changing shoes from 06′ c:
Malady@
I think you mean Adventure 2
Anyway, I dont know the hell anyone would notice that in the first place but wow, Sega had no reason to remove them if anything to keep to soccermoms at bay.
I liked the first one better. They don’t need to take away that. It isn’t really bad stuff!
It haw Hitler that stole that little poor cool…..eeerrr. sign or what do we call it?
Sorry, was not “haw”.XD
“lol seems like the Eskimos are Nazi Buddhists.”
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The swastika was once a religious icon used by Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It’s a shame that jerk Hitler had to ruin it.
If you play Seven rings in hand backwords you can here “Hitler was the one”…
Remember when SEGA were not pussies and used that to make fun of Nintendo?
Well, Sega just isn’t cool anymore…..
Obligatory comment about how the swastika was a symbol of peace until the nazis used it.
O.O I never noticed that!
reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_6WekXKcM
It’s not about being pussies, guys. It’s about not offending others. Even though the “swastika” here was facing clockwise, while the Nazi one went counterclockwise.
awww…look at sonic
his model in Unleashed is always amazing
Ummm… Those aren’t even swatiska’s, swatiskas are the other way around.
That means unity, not kill jews… <_<
SEGA you pussies
It’s not SEGA’s fault people are offended. people need to grow some nuts and learn to respect art.
@werehog
“If you play Seven rings in hand backwords you can here “Hitler was the one”…”
It also says “dip your hands in river” or something like that
and really I never noticed it. It could be that my T.V is the size of my PS3 that I play the game on or something…
@Crysore
LAWL, durr ~ I was stating the shoes were FROM 06′ I am well aware the others are from SA2. >:B thankyou.
And I don’t personally mind the changes, not like it’s much of a diffrence anyway.
Remember kids, it is only O K to offend Buddhists.
Oh, I forgot all about this. The last patch I got for this game (on PS3) was a while ago. I need to see this again.
Okay, that patch that came out a while ago on the PS3 version seems to have “fixed” it. I didn’t mind it. I think it’s funny because it was unintentional. Oh well.