What got Jet Force Gemini that rating? I played it as a kid and don't remember anything that bad. Some dialogue stuff that went over my head?
There was a lot of goopy blood and gore in the game. You could blow off the heads of every killable NPC including the innocent tribals.
The fact that it’s a shooter with actual guns maybe? I’m actually curious myself, but being grouped with Goldeneye kind of makes me lean towards that theory.
True. Iirc it got a "T" rating from the ESRB.
The article says in Japan it’s rated Z which means banned from sale to anyone under 18 so that’s probably why they’re doing this.
I got that part. I was wondering what earned it that rating. I can understand the "teen" rating in the US but this article says that in Japan games rated "Z" can only be sold and displayed to people 18+. Games rated "T" in the US can technically be sold to anyone as far as I know.
So what about the game is considered so offensive in Japan?
I just spent the last like 45 minutes and I can’t find anything definitive. My guess is the other posters are correct and gore probably pushed it up while in the US gore is fine.
Ultimately both games involve humans that can be killed with guns so yeah I guess it's partly that. That's why I wasn't allowed to play either a kid haha. At least I think that the characters from Jet Force Gemini are humans?
Unrelated but this just reminded me of how my brother and I somehow convinced our mom it was ok to play Golden Eye as long as we used the paintball mode cheat haha.
What got Jet Force Gemini that rating? I played it as a kid and don't remember anything that bad. Some dialogue stuff that went over my head?
There was a lot of goopy blood and gore in the game. You could blow off the heads of every killable NPC including the innocent tribals.
The fact that it’s a shooter with actual guns maybe? I’m actually curious myself, but being grouped with Goldeneye kind of makes me lean towards that theory.
True. Iirc it got a "T" rating from the ESRB.
The article says in Japan it’s rated Z which means banned from sale to anyone under 18 so that’s probably why they’re doing this.
I got that part. I was wondering what earned it that rating. I can understand the "teen" rating in the US but this article says that in Japan games rated "Z" can only be sold and displayed to people 18+. Games rated "T" in the US can technically be sold to anyone as far as I know.
So what about the game is considered so offensive in Japan?
I just spent the last like 45 minutes and I can’t find anything definitive. My guess is the other posters are correct and gore probably pushed it up while in the US gore is fine.
Ultimately both games involve humans that can be killed with guns so yeah I guess it's partly that. That's why I wasn't allowed to play either a kid haha. At least I think that the characters from Jet Force Gemini are humans?
Unrelated but this just reminded me of how my brother and I somehow convinced our mom it was ok to play Golden Eye as long as we used the paintball mode cheat haha.