Nintendo is releasing an adults-only N64 Switch app in Japan | VGC
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N64 18+ Switch Online will launch alongside GoldenEye and Jet Force Gemini…
  • replicat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • limitedduck@awful.systemsEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • KamikazimattEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • replicat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            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?

            • KamikazimattEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              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.

              • replicat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                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.