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Sex & Nudity
Violence & Gore
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- The older brother gets bitten by a person that turned into a spider in the face.
- The two brothers chop off a person's leg when the person was dead with blood
- The two brothers use a crossbow to shoot the dead person on the face blood appears.
- The older brother gets stabbed by the person who turned into a spider there is blood when the brother got stabbed
- A bird is injured and blood is seen in the desk the bird probably was bleeding.
- In all of the following cases, if a brother meets a sticky end, the screen fades quickly to black, and play resumes, both brothers hale, from a recent checkpoint.
- At one point there is a dog that, if not successfully avoided, can leap onto one of the brothers, pulling them to the ground and savaging them.
- Later there is a pack of menacing wolves that behave in the same way.
- There is a conflict with an evil ogre. The ogre chases the brothers with a club. I didn't see him use it, but I expect he will if you are too slow. One brother entices the ogre into chasing him, while the other pulls a lever to open a pit. When the ogre falls in, both brothers must loosen the ogre's grip from the edges of the pit before he falls to his offscreen doom.
- At one point the older brother attacks the younger brother, sitting on him and hitting his face. This is then revealed to be a dream.
- In water, the younger brother panics and drowns if he isn't riding on his big brother's back.
Profanity
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- The brothers walk past a happy drunk sitting on the ground. He waves his bottle merrily. If the player chooses to interact with him, the younger brother will take a sip from the bottle, but finds it disgusting.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The ending is very depressing.
- There are some very dark scenes in this game. However, it is practical for a careful and prepared parent to play through this game with a very young child, while censoring the darker moments by playing through them while the child is out of the room, yielding a rewarding and richly emotional gaming experience, enriched by each brother continually helping the other to progress. Although it's meant to be single-player only, it's easy to share a single controller between you to play it as a two-player co-op, each controlling one brother.
- The introductory animation shows the younger brother in distress as his mother drowns - she slips off a rowboat and sinks beneath the sea. Her death is referenced on the game's title screen every time you load the game, where the younger brother kneels before a tombstone. Even without having seen the drowning scene, my 4 year old recognized that "he is sad."
- The prologue and chapter 1 are harmless sun-dappled romps through the brothers' home village (punctuated by the dog described above)
- Chapter 2 ends with the evil ogre described above.
- Chapter 3 is much darker in tone than the previous chapters. It opens with the menacing wolves described above. This takes place at night, in a creepy forest, leading to a graveyard, where corpses hang from trees. There are also creepy tree-trunk creatures with arms that try to grab the boys.
- Chapter 3 ends with a surreal sequence with a giant who looks like their mother, with their regular-sized father nestled under the fingers of her hand. When one brother interacts with the giant, the big brother attacks the little brother as described above. This wakes the little brother up, who was having a bad dream.
- Chapter 4 opens in sunlight, but if you follow a downhill branch in the path to the right, then you end up at a bleak scene in which a man is trying to hang himself, with his burned house in the background and what is presumably his dead family under a blanket. This whole scene can be skipped entirely if you simply avoid the path's right-hand branch - the gallows tree can be seen distantly over a bluff, so it's pretty easy to spot from afar, and steer a young child away from it before it can really be made out what's going on.
- Chapter 4 ends with a bedraggled and slightly bloody-looking griffin in a cage. After being freed, it allows the brothers to ride on its back, but then dies, exhausted.
- Chapter 5 takes place in the aftermath of a giant's battleground, as the brothers walk around and over very bloody giant corpses
