L’ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board), the American organization for evaluating the age at which each video game is intended, has decided: Final Fantasy XVI is a mature title (M).
This classification corresponds to a game intended for 17 and over. In question ? Blood and gore, foul language and partial nudity.
Final Fantasy XVI: a more adult episode
The organization recalls that Final Fantasy XVI is “a action role play in which players take on the role of an enslaved prince (Clive) who goes in search of his missing brother”, but also that “the fights are fast and accompanied impact noises, cries of pain and big explosions ” and ” blood splatter effects frequently occur when characters are slashed and killed”.
others acts of violence are cited, such as “a figure’s hands cut off by a sword, a guard’s throat slit by a knife, a figure impaled in the chest, a prisoner’s shoulder stabbed and twisted by the blade of a interrogator”.
Also, the title has sexual acts and references to prostitution, with moans and words that leave no ambiguity. And we see breasts and buttocks.
Finally, the Square Enix software is criticized for using foul languagewith in particular “f*ck” and “sh*t”.
Rated Teen (T), the previous installments of the saga did not go so far that this new iteration which will address much more mature themes when it is released on PS5 on June 22, 2023 before joining the computer thereafter, after the expiration of the6 month temporary exclusivity Game.
