Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's ESRB rating promises impalement, skimpy outfits, and a "bodacious beach bod"
Nov. 13, 2023Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth sounds like a wild time
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirthsounds like a pretty wild time in its newly publishedESRB rating, which details teen-level content like impalement by sword, skimpy outfits, alcohol use and smoking, and a character bragging about their “bodacious beach bod.”
Like Final Fantasy 7 Remake before it, Rebirth has a Teen rating under the ESRB broadly due to “Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence.”
More specifically, the ESRB says Rebirth has combat “highlighted by impact sounds, cries of pain, and explosions.” There’s also splatters of blood and “characters impaled or slashed by swords, sometimes with slow-motion effects,” not to mention “an assassin throwing a spinning blade at a targeted figure” and “characters shot by soldiers.” It goes without saying that word of a characterimpaled by a swordhas raised red flags among longtime FF7 fans for obvious reasons.
Violence isn’t the only element of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth that warrants a Teen rating. According to the ESRB, “some female characters are designed with revealing outfits (e.g., deep cleavage)” and “suggestive dialogue sometimes accompanies camera panning/close-ups of characters' bodies/outfits.”
There’s some drinking and smoking going on in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth that concerned parents should know about, although this won’t surprise any big fans of the series. The ESRB says Cloud can drink “a version of moonshine while at a bar” and “cutscenes sometimes feature drunk characters slurring their speech.”
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Finally, you can expect your potty-mouthed party to utter such abominable sins as “sht, ashole, and pr*ck” at various points throughout the story.
Have I mentionedFinal Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s open world was inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon?
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