Dragon Ball FighterZ - Legendary Edition
Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.-
PC - 29/02/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 29/02/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 29/02/2024
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Xbox One - 29/02/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 29/02/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 29/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Special edition of the fighting game, featuring the 2018 base game and subsequently released DLC, in which Goku and his friends must fight a new battle against a revived Android 16 and an army of super androids designed to resemble and fight like them.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate but unrealistic violence. Violence takes place in a game environment in which characters are restricted to movement in four directions: up, down, left and right. Strikes are accompanied by flashes of bright coloured lights and a reduction in the health bar. Once defeated a character remains motionless on the floor. The game also include use of bad language ('bastard', 'piss').
Goku’s Next Journey
Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.-
PlayStation 4 - 19/02/2024
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PlayStation 5 - 21/02/2024
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Xbox One - 20/02/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 21/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
DLC for the action fighting game, 'Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot', in which the characters reunite after 10 years, with a new storyline, characters, battles and areas added.
Content specific issues
This game contains depictions of moderate, but non-realistic, violence towards both human and fantasy characters. Players throw punches and kicks, as well as using special abilities and energy blasts to defeat each other. Characters recoil from each blow, with a reduction in health, but return to their fighting stance almost immediately with little to no injury detail. Characters also fall to the ground when defeated. The game also contains use of bad language, including 'shit', 'bastard' and 'piss'.
Light Fairytale Episode 2
Red Art Games-
PlayStation 4 - 16/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Instalment in the Japanese role-playing game series in which players once again take on the role of Haru as he uncovers the mysteries of the 'Deeplands', meeting with a mysterious silver haired girl along the way.
Content specific issues
This game contains use of bad language ('bastard').
Other issues
The game also includes mild violence involving human and fantasy characters. Combat is turn-based, with characters attacking from a distance and with only mild reactions to violence. Characters flinch when hit but there is no injury detail, with damage indicated using numbers.
Pacific Drive
Maximum Entertainment Ireland LTD-
PlayStation 5 - 09/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Driving survival adventure game, set in an alternative version of 90s America, in which players face supernatural dangers in the unstable 'Olympic Exclusion Zone'. Players make an abandoned garage their base of operations, where you research new parts, customize your station wagon, and chart routes deeper into the Zone.
Content specific issues
This game contains use of bad language, including 'shit', 'goddamn' and 'screw you'.
Other issues
The game also features implied violence against the player's character, who can be harmed by radiation, shockwaves, and storms, as well by crashing their car. The game has a generally dark and unsettling atmosphere as the player must avoid and outrun storms and alien creatures.
HAAK
Super Rare Games-
Nintendo Switch - 29/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Side-scrolling platform adventure game in which players take on the role of the mysterious wanderer, Haak, as he embarks on an epic expedition across a vast cyber wasteland, populated with robotic and human-like enemies, in search of his lost brother.
Content specific issues
This game features moderate violence during encounters with human-like boss characters. Successful hits result in a pain noise and an exaggerated physical response with the damage shown as a number value. Once a character is defeated, it disappears off screen. There is also infrequent use of mild bad language including 'shit, 'bastard' and 'bloody'.
Hubris
Perpetual - Europe-
PlayStation 5 - 23/02/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
VR action-adventure shooter in which players control an employee of the OOO Corporation who must complete an intergalactic mission, accompanied by a crewmate, while defending yourself from aliens and a hostile corporation.
Content specific issues
This game features non-realistic violence towards human characters using fantastical weapons. When hit, these characters make grunting noises and then evaporate into purple particles. When alien characters are hit, they explode and disappear, leaving behind only a trace of green blood-like stains.
Evercade Piko Interactive Collection 4
Blaze Entertainment Ltd-
Evercade - 26/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Collection of ten arcade-style games from the 1980s onwards, all of which were previously released on classic home game consoles. The games are: Glover, Street Racer, Risky Woods, Skuljagger, Zero Tolerance Underground, Star X, Mermaids of Atlantis, Bad Street Brawler, The Fidgetts and Target Renegade.
Content specific issues
Many of the games feature mild violence. However, the game 'Zero Tolerance Underground' contains more moderate violence towards human-like characters. When characters are shot, there is a brief flash of light and some minor blood splatter, after which the character transforms into a pixelated and unrecognisable heap on the floor.
Evercade Sunsoft Collection 2
Blaze Entertainment Ltd-
Evercade - 26/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Compilation of games previously released on 8, 16 and 32-bit consoles. This package includes Blaster Master: Enemy Below, Ufouria: The Saga, Daze Before Christmas, Aero the Acro-Bat 2, Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, Pri Pri Primitive Princess! and Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors.
Content specific issues
This collection contains a fighting game, 'Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors', which features moderate violence. Violence in other games is milder in nature.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!
SEGA of America, Inc.-
Nintendo Switch - 25/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Party game, based on the anime 'Demon Slayer', in which players fight against each other and team up to defeat demons.
Content specific issues
This game features use of bad language, including 'shit', 'piss' and 'bastard'.
Other issues
The game also features mild violence, without blood or injuries.
Eiyuden Chronicle - Hundred Heroes
505 Games S.p.A-
PlayStation 5 - 23/04/2024
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PlayStation 4 - 23/04/2024
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Nintendo Switch - 23/04/2024
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Xbox One - 23/04/2024
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Xbox Series X|S - 23/04/2024
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PC - 23/04/2024
Advice for consumers
This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age.
Brief outline of the game
Japanese role-playing game in which players lead over 100 heroes through a war-torn world as they seek to prevent the Galdean Empire from becoming the dominant power in the land.
Content specific issues
This game contains use of mild bad language, including 'bloody'.
Other issues
The game also contains turn-based battles between human-like and fantasy characters, using both weapons and magical abilities. When characters are struck, any damage is indicated using numbers and flashing effects, without any realistic reactions and with no sight of blood or injuries. Most defeated characters disappear, although some faint onto the ground, awaiting revival or the end of the battle. Some cinematic sequences show characters engaged in close combat, including slashing with bladed weapons, but their physical reactions remain unrealistic.