The Entertainment Software Rating Board has recently rated the upcoming Emio—The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. The ESRB slapped the game with a Mature 17+ rating, citing the use of violence, horror and disturbing subject matter, as the reason for the age rating. You can read their full summary below. Emio—The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club launches on Thursday, 29th August.
“This is a simulation/adventure game in which players follow a junior detective as he collaborates with police and locals to find a killer. As players examine scenes and gather evidence from witnesses, they can ask various questions to uncover key story elements/backstory. Some cutscenes depict instances of violence: a father slapping his children; characters strangled; a human corpse hanging from a tie; a man using scissors to slice his face. Some scenes depict corpses lying in pools or trails of blood. The game contains plot points dealing with child abuse, murder, teen suicide and self-harm. The word “sh*t” appears in the game.”
apparently, a father slapping his children is considered as violence.
If it’s done because the father is abusive and doing the violence not as a form of behavioral correction, it could be.
Not to mention, society as a whole has gotten more sensitive about parent-child violence. It’s definitely more knee-jerk now than it was 30 years ago, but even then some media dared not broach the subject. For example, did you know that in the original Japanese script of Mother 2/Earthbound, after Porky and Picky go home after they and Ness check out the meteorite at the start of the game, it is heavily implied that their father beats them once they return? In the NA version, the punishment was changed to a harsh yelling-at and no dessert for the rest of the decade.
Had to fall in line with that K-A rating that no longer exists.
I did know that, and also that Ness gets naked in the JP version only.
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