Bloodstained Rating

I don't know anything about ratings, but demons are in, so religious guidance might be a thing. I expect spewing blood from bisected enemies, so animated blood and violence. I would like to see an option for nudity censorship for those who want to share the game with their kids. I don't want to see Miriam nude, but I would like to avoid the censorship problems that have hindered SotN with monsters and architecture.

So... Mature I guess.

Before there are many votes, you might want include some info on how ratings are defined and assigned.

Mature, no doubt.

go m or go home!
this should NOT be hindered by the castevania censorship of the past. blood should be red! religious references should stay intact! iga is given 100% control of his work..... and this does not look like a game for kiddies. maybe a censorship OPTION for those who are really sensitive... but otherwise bring on the blood and nudity!!

I agree, they will probably just call it cartoon violence or whatever they usually say.
Hopefully any nudity would be kept to architecture because the last thing I want is for this game to turn into a stupid fanservice thing (I am sure it won't). I would be selling my copy so fast your head would spin.

I REALLY HOPE it will be "M" to prevent any censor on their creativity, i am so tired and angry from some censorships around, this censor thing is becoming a plague this last decade i can't stand it , i like to see things exactly as the author made it, i don't want any kind of restrains. Actually i am expecting some rooms on Bloodstained with hanging dilacerated corpses, body members haning around, "disgusting" enemies models and blood, a lot of blood, i mean thats a NEED not even an expectation in my opinion.

I can understand graphical sexual censors since some persons may not like it and that is not the point of the game atmosphere anyway(not the main point at least), but certainly i can imagine dark themed naked girls portraits hanging on the walls as making sense on the game dark atmosphere, but it doesn't seems to be happening for moral purposes unfortunately. Not to mention succubus and other demons that are supposed to have their bodies exposed, but all that are minor things so i can bear with it. I just don't want to see restrained good ideas because of that.

As i understand we need a "M" mainly because of the "blood and gore" part. "T" may be fair enough to make the game right, but it is the barely minimum.
Anyway i am sure Iga and the team know what they are doing.

Heck yeah go M rated. *drool* in all seriousness tho, I would like for them to be able to as much as they can without any limitations and worry about what they can't put in the game >_>

To be fair, a lot of times the games that do have blood can be rated T to some degree. I have no idea what Bloodstained will get obviously but I'd hope that it is available to more people and that the art style is also not muddied by the rating. However I am also one of those guys who doesn't care at all how grotesque or outlandish something is, it wont offend me. More over I find a particular interest in things that out right make people wince or make reaction based on what they see / hear / do.

Case in point, you can kill off  a main character and it make little to no difference to the player if this were to occur. (How would you feel if Maria died in SoTN for example? Likely you wouldn't bat an eye because she doesn't really mean crap to you playing through the game unless you had the japanese copy) Further on this point you have the idea that in order to make something matter to the player both in aesthetic and idea you want everything to be cohesive and make a lot of sense.

If I walk into Castlevanias "Dracula" boss room, there are things I expect. A chair (throne / etc: ). Same can be said of the Succabus fight in SoTN, Thought that save location looked kinda odd... Boom Boss fight with 32 bit pixel art boobs flying around. Sense is made.

As long as the atmosphere makes sense, however done, It'll be okay T or M realistically makes little difference outside of possible "grotesque" or "excessive" use of viscera etc:. In the end though we do have to trust Iga on this... which we do.

Worth noting that the ESRB has been getting progressively more strict as the years have gone by. I wouldn't be surprised if Bloodstained ends up in the 'Rated M, but would have been a T had it been released 8 years earlier' boat.

I'm predicting T or M. I'll actually be a bit displeased if the game has AO level content.

However, someone refresh my memory as to what graphical style Bloodstained is using, because I know the ESRB tends to be quicker to give 3-D imagery a higher rating on account of being more 'realistic'. (I think I heard that it was 2.5D but I won't swear to it.

*stops self from ranting about children being grown up children if not exposed to life*

That said yeah the ESRB has gotten more strict recently. Something I had totally not paid much attention to. But a little R&D goes a long way. Perks of being old i guess... "ratings?" course I was one of those 80's kids who had porn on hand since they knew what it was... so my compass on such things might be a little "off"