Will Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360 be hit hard with an Adults Only rating? Maybe not, but at the moment, it looks like it very well could. So why does it have to be so violent and go as far as having Hero Ryu Hayabusa, the main character in the game, repeatedly cut enemies in half and watch blood spew out? Well, Yoshifuru Okamoto, an assistant producer at Tecmo's Team Ninja says that entertainment requires two things. Sexual elements and violence.
No, they don't want to influence it,(calm down Jack Thompson) but instead, they want to show you how deadly some situations can get, so you must defend yourself at all costs. Ah yes, the sexual elements? Rachel from the first game is gone, but no worries, there is another girl filling in that Okamoto confirms to have large breasts.

Okamoto said the eventual rating a game will get isn't of much concern when development begins. He also raised the possibility of producing localized versions of Ninja Gaiden II to comply with local ratings, although followed with a suggestion that he doesn't want to change his game for such purposes.

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