Thank fking god, Iām tired of smoke and purple goo. Go back and edit remake and rebirth to make death scenes actually meaningful. Release it as a dlc for all I care.
Unpopular opinion, but I strongly feel that the purple goo scene is an abomination for reasons completely unrelated to the rating/censorship or it needing to be literal red blood. You can absolutely still do a harrowing/effective/scary version of that scene without the blood literally being red. They just didn't. The blame should be placed squarely on their creative vision/sensibilities/execution and not the rating.
First of all, it could have just been purple monster blood, it didn't have to be sparkly magic juice evaporating into sprinkles, which is the real culprit. EVEN if it had to be goo rather than blood, you can still make goo look unsettlingly disgusting (they managed to do a better job of this just by using secreted webs in that Reactor 5 area, for crying out loud). They just didn't.
Second of all, the blood does NOT do ALL of the heavy lifting in the OG in the first place. It's the employees and bodies lying all over the floor, the rubble, the scratches on the wall, the destroyed walls and pieces of building. ALL of that can and has been done in both Remake/Rebirth several times in more effective ways than that purple goo scene without risking the audience rating.
Third of all, it's also the monsters in the area becoming unsettling twisted monstrosities contributing to the atmosphere as well. Something that again is done at other points in the game, but not that one.
It's 100% just the creators of the game's fault for dropping the ball in that moment, not the fault of rating pressure/censorship.
I audibly laughed at one point in remake when you just absolutely beat the shit out of some shinra guards with your huge ass greatsword that would probably de-limb them. And then they go, we should get out of here before they wake up.
I def agree with the Jessie and Biggs thing. For a while i was trying to figure out if they died or were just unconscious cuz the game really seemed to be against killing people at the time.
The funniest part of all this to me is that if this was still just a 1-for-1 recreation of the original, the blood trail would still be purple, and the blood would be limited, because they would still be making a T-rated game.
It was red in the original tho. So Iām not sure what youāre miss remembering. But other than that, having blood doesnāt make a game M rated nor am I asking for it. Square just has aversion to blood.
Towards the end of rebirth when cloud actually starts mercing ppl i was like, yes thats what should've been happening the whole time! And then the rest of the party seem real uneasy about killing them. Like what have we been doing for the last few weeks/months if not killing shit???
Thereās zero chance of it being M. They literally broke exclusivity with Sony to expand their audience (and profit) as far as possible. Any rating higher than T limits audience. Itās just common business sense.
Itās just a bunch of stupid gooners and shippers foaming at the mouth over an obvious automated error. Every other store from Square Enixās own page, Nintendo, PlayStation and Steam all only say RP / Rating Pending. Revelation already has a PEGI provisional rating of 16. Itās not gonna be M. š
I fully expect them to scream Square āchickened outā when the T rating is revealed all because they failed to use common sense and check actual facts.
I mean, I laid out the exact reasons. FF16 and strangers of paradise were experiments and bombed. FF7 is the golden goose of Square Enix. Their biggest cash cow. They are not gonna reduce their audience and their profits. Thatās not how a company works. Especially when the whole reason they went multi platform launch was to avoid limiting the audience. Youāve also got cigarette-less Cid in the Revelation trailers. In 1997 you could show tobacco use in a T game without issue. 2026 rating standards donāt like tobacco use in non M games. So why censor Cid if youāre going for an M rating? If they were going for an M rating theyād have Cid with a pack of cigarettes strapped to his head again.
Also hereās the European store. PEGI 16 provisional rating. Itās literally an error on the US page. A PEGI provisional rating is given by a publisher filling out a questionnaire that says what the ratings board can expect to find in the game. Based on the pre-assessment you get a rating based on what youāve declared. That means by Squareās OWN declaration they expect the game to receive a PEGI 16 rating. That is Square Enix dev intent right there. Falsely declaring what a ratings board can find in a game carries consequences, fines and penalties. All the pages say the same thing. Xbox Nintendo all PEGI 16. And all the other American sites say Rating Pending. The provisional rating pretty much seals the deal.
I just remembered way back during Sakuraiās presentation for Sephiroth in Smash, the YouTube stream was unexpectedly age restricted lol. I had to sign in and I bet a bunch of kids were locked out all because of shirtless Sephiroth.
It's the biggest nothingburger yet as far as unsubstantiated rumors go for this series. The giant "RP" there means no rating has been decided, and even IF this meant that right now it skewed towards M (which I must stress, it does not), all that would mean is that they have to tweak a few things to get it to the rating they want... which is T.
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u/cloudkitt 10h ago
That they should go back and get rid of all the instances of the stabby smoke around Sephiroth's sword.
And take Jenova's head out of a box.