Final Fantasy XVI Rated Mature For Sex Scenes and Hate Crimes - Kotaku

Turns retired the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI, isn’t conscionable leaning heavy connected its Game of Thrones medieval aesthetic successful jest. According to its MSRB standing successful Brazil, FFXVI is rated mature for its enactment scenes, cause use, and phantasy hatred crimes.

According to a Reddit translation of the game’s standing connected the Brazilian Ministério da Justiça website (their Ministry of Justice and Public Security), Final Fantasy XVI features a cacophony of “extenuating circumstances” like:

• Sex scenes (that are not afloat shown) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• “Intentional deaths” (ㆆ_ㆆ)
• Torture scenes depicting suffering victims ( ಠ_ಠ )
• Drugs usage (¬‿¬)
• Prostitution (＃°Д°)
• Sexual contented (that is shown and discussed) (。﹏。)
• And hatred crimes （⊙ｏ⊙）

While this quality whitethorn travel arsenic immoderate astonishment to you, we already knew that FFXVI would beryllium much mature than its predecessors due to the fact that its producer, Naoki Yoshida, said arsenic overmuch successful an interview with Gamespot.

“When trying to archer a communicative with hard big themes, these ratings tin extremity up becoming somewhat of a hindrance. And you find yourself changing things that you wanted to bash successful the crippled based connected that rating,” Yoshida told Gamespot. “This time, to marque definite that we could archer the communicative that we wanted successful the mode that we wanted to, we decided to prosecute a Mature standing successful astir of the regions that volition beryllium releasing the game.”

Despite the salaciousness of FFXVI’s mature contented standing details, the aforementioned themes and topics aren’t wholly caller for the franchise. Last year, Square Enix updated the guidelines for its MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV, allowing its users to partake successful consensual and backstage erotic roleplaying truthful agelong arsenic it was “conducted successful a backstage area.” Granted, bumping uglies oregon “making love” successful FFXIV for the romantics retired determination fundamentally involves getting your squats successful portion being uncomfortably adjacent to your peculiar friend. But it’s existent to FFXIV players, dammit, and each powerfulness to them.

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Final Fantasy VII Remake besides had its just stock of mature content, contempt being rated T for Teen for its language, suggestive themes, usage of intoxicant and tobacco, and violence. Cloud Strife and his set of eco-terrorists were tortured galore times, astir enactment trafficked, and witnessed home coercion by mode of Shinra dropping an full colony connected apical of different colony. However, it would look that the lone happening that separates FFVIIR from FFXVI is the level of item the second spends some with its dialog and with however agelong its camera is trained on FFXVI’s enactment scenes and hatred crimes.

Personally, knowing that FFXIV features hatred crimes moves maine to tears. I’m crying ironically, don’t interest (～￣▽￣)～. Why the ironic laughter astatine phantasy hatred crimes? Well backmost successful November, FFXIV’s producer, Naoki Yoshida, poorly explained to IGN why the game’s phantasy satellite of Valisthea didn’t person immoderate non-white radical successful it by saying helium felt radical diverseness would beryllium a usurpation of FFXIV’s “narrative boundaries.”

“Ultimately, we felt that portion incorporating taste diverseness into Valisthea was important, an over-incorporation into this azygous country of a overmuch larger satellite could extremity up causing a usurpation of those communicative boundaries we primitively acceptable for ourselves,” Yoshida told IGN.

With that successful mind, my caput has been racing a mile a infinitesimal wondering some what incites FFXIV’s mature-rated hatred crimes and what phantasy radical volition beryllium astatine the receiving extremity of it. Will the Hate Crimes™ beryllium against bunny-eared people? Cat girls? Or worse, the British-sounding natives? The possibilities mightiness beryllium endless, but they’re decidedly gonna beryllium some sorta white and, arsenic the kids say, that’s alright.

FFXVI is slated to merchandise connected PlayStation 5 and PC adjacent summer.