With the ESRB's introduction of the E10+ rating in 2005, many games that previously straddled the line were bumped up from E (as in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D) or down from T (as in the original Ratchet & Clank trilogy).
More egregious cases can be chalked up to overzealous Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians cracking down on content that was once acceptable (or, at the very least, wasn't considered a cause for concern by more level-headed audiences).Īs shown in the page image, this is often an occurrence when old video games are ported, re-released or remastered as a new product years after the original release. This also happens as ratings systems grow more robust over time, introducing more tiers of ratings and allowing for more precise classification.
REBORN IN SIN HENTAI SERIES
Something that might have been perfectly innocuous and acceptable 20 or 10 or even five years ago is now regarded as automatic grounds for a rating bump, even if everything else in the series is all rainbows and unicorns. What's changed is how its content is seen. You pop in the disc (or crack the cover) and find, surprise surprise, that the series hasn't really changed at all. Sure, there might have been a little violence, an odd bit of innuendo that flew over your head 20 years ago that makes you chuckle looking back or a joke or two that pushed the boundaries of what would today be considered good taste, but certainly things haven't changed that much, have they? Has the franchise taken an unexpected turn for the Darker and Edgier while you weren't looking? But what's this? "Rated M for Mature?" "Parents Strongly Cautioned?" "Not for children under 17?" What's all this nonsense? The last work in the series, the one before it and all of its predecessors have been perfectly family-friendly. So the latest entry in your favorite series has just come out. The Nostalgia Critic's review of Labyrinth
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