That M rating cannot stop 7th graders from viewing anything and everything that's going on in the world, who in turn share it with elementary schoolers.
That footage will be seen period. What's worse, Dismemberment, blinding, and torture because its "fun"; "Here you try!". If anyone thinks that if you commit such acts in a game, that it will not effect you in real life, you are pitifully ignorant.
Now I am an adult. I bought the game, I can navigate it, and can use my own good judgment to make a good play through and enjoy what just might be my last ever video game.
There is nothing to praise Larian for, as this genre appears dead. All their hard work? Seriously? There best efforts I will never see, because it certainly wasn't made for me.
Any D&D series I played was about having the tools to stop evil, not become it. What I saw in the Shar cultist scene, made the Manson family look like the Brady Bunch family picnic, and Sven is laughing maniacally. "Hey, lets go kill Jaheira and the Harpers, cuz they aren't fun".
The man has made a trip round the bend, and ain't commin back.
These are some really outrageous and unsubstantiated claims you're making here, buddy.
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