[Mudokon_Master]

In the original Abe's Oddysee, the Mudokon Pop plan is a picture of a severed mudokon head on a spear. I have seen images, however of a happier version and it turns out it was the Japanese version. Why did they make it happier? Aren't the Japanese tough enough to handle an animated alien head on a stick with no blood or anything. I've never found it disturbing, my 9 year old brother doesn't find it disturbing, why do the Japanese?