Birushana: Winds of Fate

Birushana: Winds of Fate is rated T for Teen by the ESRB with Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, and Violence. This is a visual novel in which players follow the story of a young survivor of a war in feudal Japan. As players progress through the story, they make choices that affect the narrative. Some choices lead to instances of violence: characters engaging in sword fights (mostly off-screen with flashes of light and slashing sounds). One still-image depicts a character impaled by a sword, with blood effects. Other still images depict characters with blood on their bodies and/or clothing. The game contains suggestive material in the dialogue (e.g., “Our bodies got so close and I felt [his] hand in my kimono”; “I reached out with both hands to stop [his] lips as they moved down my neck, to my collarbone, and even lower…”; “[T]he burning heat I felt from him made me moan with pleasure”; “A typical name for a prostitute since many singers were also prostitutes.”). The game contains references to alcohol, including drunk characters slurring their speech (e.g., "Maybe if I get him drunk, he'll let something slip..."; "...[Y]ou have no shex appeal, and you can't hold a convershation"; "I kept pouring him sake, and after a while, he seemed to be getting drunker and drunker"; "I guess he really can't hold his liquor”; "...I'm all hungover and tired." The word “sh*t” appears in the game.