It’s not often that a Japanese role-playing game obtains a ‘Mature’ rating from the ESRB, but that’s exactly what the North American classifications board has awarded PlayStation Vita dungeon crawler Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars. While the Nintendo 3DS iteration is the only version to be examined thus far, it stands to reason that the release on Sony’s system will follow the same path.
The company noted fantasy violence – including some gory scenes – as one of the reasons for the adult rating, but also pointed to some raunchy dialogue and sexual themes. “During the course of the game, players are able to engage in a Classmating system, in which two characters interact to create a Star Child,” a summary explained. “These brief sequences do not depict sexual acts, though the female characters shown are often partially nude and placed in suggestive poses.” Hmm.
As the game’s name implies, you’ll need these Star Children to succeed, so there’ll be no escaping the fleeting sensual sections. It’d be interesting if this was being handled in a manner that tallied with the title’s classification, but the ESRB descriptor also mentions the inclusion of “jiggling breasts” and frequent close-ups of “cleavage”. The title sounds more juvenile than mature, then – but still probably not appropriate for youngsters.
[source esrb.org, via siliconera.com]
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Making babies! This game is mine!
Really? Children should be taught sex education prepuberty so to give this 18 rating is frankly ludicrous. More publicity I guess. I don't think many parents will care too much about letting their children play this. Making animated star children is clearly only suitable for adults :/
@Sanquine Thought you might say that.
Well that's the ESRB for you or any other rating system for that matter!
Omg then the Sims (all of them) should be M. And Pokemon from silver on up. Jk, they shouldn't. GTA5, FC3, FO:NV, etc. show bare breasts and depict the bajezis out of sexual activity and get M. Makes perfect sense.
Have they announced a western release date? I'm definitely planning on picking it up
@Cowboysfan-22 US release date !
@get2sammyb @get2sammyb Well, those strange games really attract me! Still want to play excestra ( Kissing rpg xD)
@Sanquine is there an exact date for the US?
@Sanquine
Making babies and sending them out to war!
This will be a day one purchase for me! Although I'll probably get the 3DS version.
I think they said the release date is going to be around May.
@Cowboysfan-22 Don't know matey!
@Tsuzura Vita version for me! Glad both handhelds can enjoy this title!
Sending kids to war is cruel. Eh, those games for shameless otaku.
@Cowboysfan-22 April or may I forgot
It has been listed on gamefaqs
Oh take the date with consideration of Ys which late for some months though
@Sanquine
@Tsuzura YES
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