10 Video Games With The WRONG Rating

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 video

00:07games with the wrong rating.

00:08For this list, we'll be going over the video games whose ESRB rating does not match its

00:13content either because it's too high or too low.

00:15If there's a game you think needs re-rating, please give your own grades in the comments.

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00:42Portal is a simple and straightforward landmark of a puzzle game, in which a malevolent AI

00:46named GLaDOS puts you through a series of tests involving using a portal gun to solve

00:50various problems.

00:51While there are gun turrets and some blood effects if you get hit by them or other obstacles,

00:55that's hardly worth the T rating that Portal has.

00:58Granted, GLaDOS has a dark sense of humor, but kids are exposed to much harsher content

01:02elsewhere, even back when the game was first released.

01:05Its rating, much like the cake, is a lie.

01:23This is a hack and slash game in which you take on hordes of enemies in a rip-off of

01:27in the vein of Dynasty Warriors.

01:2999 Nights has roughly the same level of violence as its inspiration.

01:33However, while most Dynasty Warriors games are rated T for Teen, 99 Nights got slapped

01:38with an M for Mature.

01:40While there are a few risque outfits, some impalement, and there are some moments where

01:43you kill civilians, the vast majority of gameplay is no more violent than the games they're

01:48imitating.

01:49Fighting through huge armies in an over-the-top way is something teens can definitely handle.

02:05Batman Arkham Knight

02:12The Batman Arkham games are quite dark in general and are some of the most mature Batman

02:16stories out there.

02:17Even so, M is a bit too high for the degree of content involved.

02:21Most of the violence is Batman beating up bad guys, and there are similar superhero

02:24games with similar combat systems, which are rated T.

02:27We'll grant that Arkham Knight goes to some pretty grim places, but coddling teenagers

02:31rarely works out well.

02:32Besides, it's Batman.

02:33Teens and kids are going to play it regardless of the rating.

02:41The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

02:49The Legend of Zelda franchise has featured a few games whose ratings many disagree with.

02:53As tempting as it was to discuss how unnecessary it was to give Twilight Princess a T rating,

02:57nightmare fuel aside, Majora's Mask is arguably darker, and it got an E for Everyone rating.

03:02The specter of death looms over the entire game in the form of a terrifying moon ready

03:06to crash into the world and end everyone's lives.

03:09For every quirky and lovable character, there's a horrifying enemy or grim side quest that

03:13will keep you up at night.

03:15Thankfully, the ESRB re-rated it upon its 3DS remake to E10+.

03:24Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

03:32Speaking of E10+, the very first game to receive that rating was Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, and

03:37right from the inception of this new rating, the ESRB got it wrong.

03:40Jungle Beat is a platformer where you defeat enemies using the DK bongos, a peripheral

03:44controller that uses rhythm strikes in the shape of, naturally, a pair of bongo drums.

03:49Aside from the unusual controller, Jungle Beat isn't that different to most other Donkey

03:52Kong platformers.

03:53It was the bongos, wasn't it?

03:55This kind of backwards thinking has us believing that some of the folks at the ESRB have heads

03:59as hollow as these drums.

04:07Halo Combat Evolved

04:15Even among most other first-person shooters at the time, Halo Combat Evolved is fairly

04:20tame.

04:21Sure, there's blood, but it's usually blink and you'll miss it or it's green from an

04:24alien.

04:25Admittedly, the introduction of the flood is legitimately terrifying and has elements

04:28of body horror.

04:29Yeah, we probably shouldn't have played that part when we were kids, but a full-on

04:32M rating?

04:33For Halo?

04:34We could see them giving it a stronger T rating, but even that's a little much, at least

04:37by today's standards.

04:38There are more graphic moments in later games that got away with a T rating.

04:49Super Smash Bros.

04:50Melee and Super Smash Bros.

04:51Brawl

04:57Both of these games in the crossover fighting series Super Smash Bros. have the same rating,

05:01a T, and both of them are wrong.

05:03The franchise may feature cartoonish and realistic video game characters beating each other up

05:07and using fantastical violence to knock one another off stages, but that hardly warrants

05:11targeting them towards everyone 13 and up.

05:14If there's Pikachu for crying out loud.

05:16Later games in the series have E10 Plus ratings, and while Melee is somewhat understandable

05:21given that the E10 Plus rating hadn't been invented yet when it was released, Brawl has

05:25no such excuse.

05:26We'd still skew more towards E than towards T if it were up to us.

05:37Star Fox Adventures

05:45The odd duck in the Star Fox franchise, Star Fox Adventures, is an adventure game made

05:49by Rare.

05:50Naturally, there are a lot of things to collect, cute animal characters, and a T rating.

05:53Wait, what?

05:54There may be another instance of E10 Plus not existing yet being the culprit behind

05:57an inaccurate rating, but it doesn't make it any easier to understand.

06:01Still, even if it had a rating that reflected its gameplay, it probably wouldn't be able

06:04to escape its reputation as a subpar game with Star Fox stapled on.

06:15Shadow the Hedgehog

06:21Shadow the Hedgehog, just like its titular character, is the darker, edgier counterpart

06:25to the Sonic the Hedgehog games.

06:27To that end, it has more violence, including realistic guns, mild profanity, and a protagonist

06:31who looks like he's the hedgehog equivalent of a god.

06:34Now, all that seems like it'd probably be worth a T rating, though it would be borderline,

06:38and that's exactly what the folks at Sega thought, because they trimmed some of the

06:41more extreme content, like a girl getting gunned down, so that the planned T rating

06:45wouldn't get passed as the newly created E10 Plus instead.

06:53Snatcher

06:54A cyberpunk adventure game made by Hideo Kojima, Snatcher features graphic imagery from severed

07:06heads to maggot-ridden corpses to dead animals.

07:08It's also set in a dystopian future and features a lot of mature subject matter, including

07:12murder and prostitution.

07:14Naturally, it's rated T for teen, and visual adventure games have often been able to deal

07:18with more mature subject matter with less scrutiny, and Snatcher is no exception.

07:22Or maybe the ESRB didn't look closely enough at it.

07:24To be fair, they weren't the only ones, since Snatcher's biggest release outside

07:28of Japan was on the Sega CD, and we all know how well that console did.

07:31If you've never heard of it, you're only proving the point harder.

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