Final Fantasy Versus XIII to be Mature Rated

As many of us noticed, at one point in the new Final Fantasy Versus XIII trailer, the Prince impales one particular soldier with one of his many weapons. This is no new thing to Final Fantasy, but the effect you are all now thinking of is, blood and gore. FF-XIII.net provides screen shots to see the exact moment in the trailer.

Minor blood has been in Final Fantasy's in the past, like on Sephiroth's face at the end of FFVII and the tiny patch of blood on Cloud's shirt after being stabbed by Sephiroth in FFVII: Advent Children. Those fall under the ESRB Teen Rating for "containing minimal blood". What is seen in the Versus trailer is in no stretch of the imagination "minimal blood", but easily fits into the ESRB Mature Rating's "contain intense violence, blood and gore" category, the article continues.

[MK_Red]

OMG, I pray that it's true. I'd kill to see this happen. FFXIII Versus just moved up in my book by 10000000. Seriously, a mature rated FF could be a revolution. I love M rated J-RPGs like Paraside Eve and SMT.

[nanometric]

Parasite Eve and Nocturne are still the best two RPG's I have ever played. And I agree, I've been hoping for an M rated FF for ages

P.S. I would give you bubbles, but you don't seem to need any :D

[C_SoL]

but the VS video convinced me to get Final Fantasy VS only cause it's more like Kingdom Hearts(I heard)....not really into RPG's, sorry.....sooner or later I'll get into it, I just haven't really played enough RPG's...

[Grassroots]

It's is more like KH, it's a action RPG and is being created by the KH team, and the Advent Children teams. Now on the rating, they will get a teen out of it.

[MK_Red]

I can't even begin to imagine a Final Fantasy with Blood and Gore.

[Bonsai1214]

it makes for a more immersive story telling experience..

[Sevir04]

any for of impaling in gameplay and decapitations this will be an amazing mature FF that will have jack thompson talking about why we should bann RPGS... which would spurr along a controversy and user gamer awareness which equals more than phenominal sales for versus... I can only hope it goes for a more mature viceral, gritty but elegant action packed game. it will be amazing because the game play in KH2 had a bit of teleporting/mid air flight combat with Xemnas and that dude with the sniper,

i loved using the Warp command when that dude would fire is snipers it was just amazing to look at and then the reversal command when fighting xemnas was nothing short of awesome and DBZ/advent children in some aspect... this will be amazing if they make this part of the permanent battle system for this game... and i pray they make it mature... they better, it will be the first Mature FF and be revolutionary action RPG from them to ull off a well recieved mature rating FF game.

[LinuxGuru]

to see an apocalyptic series of RPG's like Final Fantasy start taking itself seriously and including the blood and gore that would come along with fighting all these insane battles and wars.

[INehalemEXI]

Can't Wait

[Darkiewonder]

I'll die. I really want to see a mature story unfold with lots of action and fighting and such ;o

Nomura himself said Versus will have a darker Mood to it. so darker story is mature no? ;o

KH2 just didn't do it for me. too light compared to the first.

[Mario18]

Mature Rated > Teen Rated!!!!

[kamakazi]

ok folks all together now...........SYSTEM SELLER GUARANTEED!!! (if it turns out to be true) wait.....what am i saying regardless.

[Delive]

On a side note. Mature ratings due to blood and gore. Is this limited to human interaction? Example. Let's say "Afrika" allowed the lions to hunt, kill and eat a zebra. Would this be M for blood and gore or not, seeing this is stuff on the Discovery channel all the time. It's not like the player can cause the B&G.

[Timesplitter14]

Mature = better IMO

But speaking of ERSB... don't you think that's downright stupid? You need to be 17 years old to see blood? Cuz if you were 16... omg... you'd be DOOMED and you'd end becoming an emo serial killer? What the hell?

[Reibooi]

Tbh I don't really care if it's M rated or not. It's gonna be uncontrollably awesome regardless of it's rating and personally I don't think it needs blood and gore to be awesome although it wouldn't hurt the game either

[harv052]

Like it's going to make a difference. Kids can buy any game they want at any ratings. This shouldn't be allowed. As a parent, I watch closely what my kids play. I guess this is the biggest problem, parent letting their kids play whatever the f**k they want. Sad really.

But FFXIII looks promising.

Edit: wow, a disagree...you actually disagree with the fact that any kid can buy any game? wow...

[Timesplitter14]

I've played whatever the f*** I wanted ever since I was 5 years old.(Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, GTA...) All the most violent games. And guess what? They didn't do anything. I'm probably the most calm and non-violent person I know. And I always got great marks at school. You should know that games do nothing, since you play them. The only things that make children go wrong are the parents themselves (like if they divorce or if they're violent) OR social problems like poverty or exclusion at school. NOT GAMES

[harv052]

I'll agree with you 50%. Although it ain't true that video games do nothing. They might not have done anything to you, me and a lot of people. But you do well know, if you watch a bit of news, that games will affect some people, to high extent sometimes, enough for them to kill people or even kill themselves (remember Everquest?). Highly influencable people are more likely to become violent. But you are right. Education and good parenting are the main things when it comes to younger audience playing mature games...

[PStriple703]

this game will own

[MK_Red]

Hopefully this games turns out a great M rated and sells really well so publishers could finally understand that M rating isn't that bad (Right now, best sellers like Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Halo 3, COD4, BioShock and such are all M rated).
Blood and gore FTW!

[Tyrael]

If this turns out to be true, I have officially announced my purchase of a Playstation 3. This game is going to kick ass

[Prismo_Fillusion]

*crosses fingers*
Come on Mature rating!

[bootsielon]

But if the rating means a more "realistic fantasy", i.e. not one as naive as to lack blood gore, sex, rock, drugs and alcohol, then I'm in.

[J@D]

a Mature FF? Now that's kinda imppresive specially coming from Numora with the light serie Kingdom Hearts(Series that I loved and I'm huge fan) but this could be revolutionary.

[Big Jim]

A mature FF would be awesome, I admit. But it wouldn't sell as well. There are a lot of kids who would want to buy FFXIII but whose parents wouldn't let them because its mature. The PS3 needs all the system selling games it can get. So no way is Sony gonna let this be rated mature. They desperately need this game to sell as much as possible. If this game comes out with a mature rating I'll eat my hat.

[vloeistof]

so this is how game is going to be like kh was ment

[DethWish]

Blood trails in the ShinRa building and the blood in Squall's face in the opening are examples of a little more blood

[vhero]

WTF is the point of this the games not even finished and released in japan yet how can it be given a rating? This is just fanboy crap even if its going to happen which wouldnt ruin the game but IT NOT RELEASED ANYWHERE IT CANNOT HAVE A RATING!

[somekyle]

"Rumors" it's a category. This article is in it.

[coltsfreak18]

kids will still buy it. halo 3 anyone... all the true ff fans will be older people that werekids in the first couple of them

[Timesplitter14]

Is that really a problem? I don't think seeing 0,1 nanoseconds of blood will transform you into a bloodthirsty killer

[Shaka2K6]

Game just keeps getting better and better.

[jinn]

a mature game like this belongs on the xbxo360