The guillotines in Chrono Trigger may have been a result of the lessening of control on censorship by Nintendo of America, or it may have been because the guillotines were never depicted as a pending execution device. The censorship policies of Nintendo of America were rather black and white at times.

I am still surprised at some of the language and content in Breath of Fire II. Final Fantasy Tactics and Xenogears contained similar elements, yet they, too, had to have content altered slightly in certain parts.