Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6431205-20130423195835/@comment-5085906-20131122213653

Weedle McHairybug wrote: If you want to get technical, we already saw Raiden beheading ten POWs due to Solidus telling him to "blow out the candles" in the DGN, and we did see Chico participate in direct combat in Peace Walker (specifically, when storming the base). If those could get through the censors, as well as Raiden's flashbacks to Liberia in the Make it Right trailers, they can do it here.

DGN is an illustrated novel, and the only Make it Right trailer that kind of showed the horror Raiden went through during his days as a child soldier was a live-action that lasted about 60 seconds. What he suggested earlier was an entire game going through Raiden's bloody days as a child soldier, probably made possible via the FOX Engine, arguably one of the most advanced engines so far when it comes to graphic enhancement. Think of how realistic the scenes would look, and how horrible the deaths would look to the gamer. Sure, you might argue that issues as radical as child employment in wars might have been treated by other forms of art, but let's not forget that not everyone considers videogames an art. Heck, they managed to prevent "Six Days in Fallujah" from releasing just because it was a game, and it treated a historical event (because according to activists, games aren't allowed to treat serious matters).

So yeah, I think a game like that would never happen. Not in the near future, at least.