Exile

Localization

The Western release of the Genesis version of Exile has been thoroughly sanitised. The protagonist Sadler is no longer a Muslim warrior, the Roman-Catholic church has been turned into the Luciel empire, and the mosque in the hometown has been profanised into a hotel.

The TurboGrafx CD version, however, is much more faithful to the original. Geographical areas and names of characters have been only slightly changed, and their prototypes are for the most part easily recognized ("Yuug d'Payne", for example, is clearly Hugues de Payens, the leader of Knights Templar during the Fifth Crusades). The famous Greek philosopher Pythagoras and the mysterious hero of masonic legends, Hiram Abiff, even survived the localization unscathed.