The Development of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — Interview

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Leynos said:

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There's only so much body horror you can pull off while retaining a Teen rating; Metroid is niche enough without limiting its audience even further with an adult rating.

Xenoblade 2 Torna would disagree. That aside Metroid was never about pure horror. More about isolation. If people want body horror. You can play Dead Space or Still Wakes in the Deep or something like that. Metroid doesn't need to go into that stuff.

I feel like Torna gets away with this primarily cos it's more stylized and cartoony, if it had a realistic art style I don't think this would qualify as a T Rating.