It's Mature in the US. Frankly, MANY families in the US wouldn't be phased by the killing of tiefling children. Parents let their kids watch Return of the King at very young ages with decapitated heads and eyeballs popping out. BG3 is tame compared to some of the stuff parents here are letting their kids watch these days.
Mature isn’t the highest rating a game can get though. Return of the King is an odd comparison - those were PG-13 films. It has a lot of violence but how it is presented and against whom is rather important. I was very squeamish at the time, and had no issues watching LotR trilogy. I found original Star Wars trilogy more violent then LotR.
It is a curious limitation though - it has so much “mature” content I find it difficult to believe Larian would worry about the game being inappropriate for young audience. There specifically created a limitation, though, so there must be a reason for it.
Right. ROTK was PG-13 with decapitated heads and ghosts with eyeballs hanging out of their faces. Not exactly kid friendly material. BG3 is Mature which is the equivalent of rated R.
My point is that the game's rating should have no bearing on whether players can kill kids or not. If they make it so players can kill tiefling kids, it isn't going to suddenly ruin Larian sales or cause an issue with the game's rating.
Now. That said. I'm a parent. When my kids were younger, I wouldn't let them play games or watch me play games with content like BG3's. Whether we can kill tiefling kids or not, that's only one small portion of the game's maturity rating. Sex scenes, duergar cursing like sailors, blood, guts, severed heads and limbs... This is not a game for younger audiences. So, why are we even talking about rating in terms of whether a game like this should allow killing kids or not?
