SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris – ESRB

Rating Summary

This is a role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hero attempting to rescue a friend in a virtual world known as the Underworld. From a third-person perspective, players traverse various environments (e.g., caves, villages, open fields), interact with characters, and engage in melee-style combat against enemy soldiers and fantastical creatures (e.g., trolls, giant birds, wild foxes). Players use swords to slash at enemies, sometimes resulting in splashes of blood. Battles are frenetic, with slow-motion effects and cries of pain. Cutscenes depict additional acts of violence: a female character impaled through the chest; characters lying in pools of blood. The game contains some suggestive material in the dialogue (e.g., “I’ve never seen boobs this big before”; “If you would allow me to touch you with these hands, to kiss you…If I could spend the night of my dreams with you”; “Oh, would you have preferred me to be in the nude? You voracious boy.”). Some female characters also wear outfits that reveal large amounts of cleavage. The word “a*shole” appears in the game.