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(2015 Video Game)

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Sex & Nudity

  • The main character takes a shower, no nudity is shown.
  • Nothing is shown but a character implies possible assault in a story she tells her friend. Though she said she managed to get away.
  • In the same episode when entering a drug dealers RV; you can see a rather clear poster of two naked women kissing. You can also see a naked woman as someone's laptop wallpaper. If you observe closely you'll most likely find more posters similar to this. It doesn't show any actual nudity, just implied.
  • Some sexual innuendos.
  • Girls are shown in their underwear in some parts.
  • In the last episode there is some kissing between characters.
  • It is implied the main character was in love with the missing girl.

Violence & Gore

  • Episode 1:
  • A girl is shot with a gun, but you have to rewind time and save her.
  • A girl is hit in the head with a rugby ball, but you can save her.
  • A boy is shown being bullied. It isn't violent, but it is implied that they assaulted him.
  • A character fights another, and the one who is your friend gets a bruised eye.
  • Episode 2:
  • It is mentioned that a man died in a car accident.
  • One character has a gun and in a part of the game you go with her and play with the weapon and the time. She asks you to shoot something and if you choose incorrectly, the bullet rebounds in the direction of your friend (the character who shot it) and gets injured.
  • A girl is stuck on a train rail and if you don't save her, the train kills her, although you only see the train near the girl and orders you to rewind time.
  • A character is shown attempting suicide, although you rewind time and you can save her by speaking with her. Howeve if you chose incorrectly, she will fall off the building and die. Not very graphic, but may be disturbing and very emotional.
  • When you use too much the time rewind power, your character bleeds a bit from the nose.
  • Episode 3:
  • Dead birds and whales are shown.
  • A man tries to kill you with his knife if you do something to him, but the game orders you to rewind time so you only see the man moving to your character.
  • If you choose to throw the false bone to the highway, the dog gets knocked down by a truck.
  • Episode 4:
  • If you choose the wrong answer, the friend of the main character shoots a dog and a man. Also with another answer the man can get injured with his own knife. The man can kill you, but the game pauses and have to rewind. But you can also finish with no one injured.
  • Dead whales are shown with some bruises and some blood.
  • You have to let an innocent man die to return to the original timeline.
  • Photos of girls tied and dying are shown. This is more disturbing than violent.
  • A man injects a syringe in the main character's neck. In the same scene, a girl is shot in the forehead, blood is shown. We later see the girl in the floor with blood around.
  • A boy hits another that has a gun numerous times. If you choose to stay away from him, the "good boy" hits the "bad boy" more times and he starts bleeding.
  • You can kill a bird if you close the window, although you can rewind in time and save it.
  • A girl accidentally gets hit and falls into a swimming pool, although you can warn her.
  • Episode 5:
  • This episode is the most violent, although nothing too much or too gory.
  • The main character is tied in a chair in some sequences. Another character is also shown tied in some moments (depending on certain choices made in Episodes 1 and 4).
  • A man hits another man various times and dies. In the same sequence if you choose the wrong choice the bad guy will shoot the other man, showing some blood. If you do it right, the good guy hits the other man various times. In the part of the game, when you speak with the man who saved you, if you choose "TELL THE TRUTH" he will shoot the bad guy, showing blood.
  • A lot of pigeons hit the windows of the classroom covering everything with blood. Weird and bloody.
  • A lot of dead pigeons are shown.
  • It is implied that a boy was killed.
  • Dead people is shown in the street.
  • You allow a teenage boy and girl to die or save them.
  • You can accidentally electrocute a fisherman.

Profanity

  • Around 90 uses of "fuck", 1 use of "cunt", several uses of "shit", and about 5 uses of "motherfucker"
  • Depending on the choices you make, someone may end up calling the main character a 'dumb cunt.'

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A girl smokes weed in her bedroom.
  • It's discussed many times that a girl was drugged at a party, but luckily got away.
  • Some of the characters are drug consumers and drugs are discussed many times through the game.
  • Some drinking is shown in diferent scenarios.
  • At a party, some people are drinking. Some of them are swearing. We also can speak with some people that are drunk. For example, a very good friend of the main character is drunk when we speak with him.
  • The villain injects a syringe in the neck of the main chracter.
  • Finishing "Episode 4", in the teaser of the next episode, a man is shown preparing a syringe and the main charater asks mercy.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Many players report this game to be quite depressing because of its sad character deaths and its implications that our choices we make as people can have devastating unintended consequences.
  • Although it's an exploring adventure game with a sci-fi tone, it has a dramatic mood with very emotional, intense, shocking and disturbing moments. Although there are some lighter, happier and funny moments to make it more pleasant.
  • Some intense moments like the escape from the academy and discussions.
  • The final scenes of Episode 3 and 4, and opening scenes of Episode 4 are highly emotional and gut wrenching.
  • The final episode (Episode 5) has a very sad tone, with plenty of weird and quite heart-wrenching moments. The episode is emotionally very intense.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • The villain, who is an adult, drugs and kidnaps teenage girls and takes lewd pictures of them.

Violence & Gore

  • Chloe gets shot in the head on screen accompanied by a blood spray. (Though the main character Max later rewinds time preventing her death)
  • Chloe dies at the end, if the player chooses to sacrifice her.
  • You can choose to kill the best friend of the main character with euthanasia. Although later you rewind the time and she's alive.
  • It is revealed that the girl who disappeared is dead. There is a scene when she is found where a bag can be seen, implying that she is inside. Nothing graphic, although it's very emotional.
  • If you decide to tell Chloe's step dad, David, that she was killed by the villain, he'll shoot the killer offscreen. However, the player can see the dead body of the villain.
  • You can choose to let your friend die or destroy the whole city. If you choose to let your friend die, the same sequence of the first episode (when a boy shoots a girl) is shown, but we see more blood than the first time. If you choose to destroy the city, some corpses can be seen.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Women are seen injected with drugs by needles to render them unconscious so the main villain can kidnap them and take creepy lewd photos of them.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The game has two endings. In one ending, you sacrifice Chloe (the other main character) to save Arcadia Bay, and in the other ending you sacrifice Arcadia Bay (and all the residents) to save Chloe. Both endings are pretty sad.

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