Katana ZERO
Video Game • 2019 • Action
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Is there decapitation?
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A scientist and two bosses are killed this way.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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There is a little girl character, and while her situation is extremely ambiguous, when she is first introduced it can be assumed she is not being taken care of properly.
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Unsure but possible
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Largely implied. There's a little girl who prefers not to spend time at home and builds a relationship with the protagonist instead. The girl's father is referred to as a drug user and some level of neglect is implied.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The main character doubting his own reality is exacerbated further by various other characters. The entire game is essentially about the main character doubting his own reality and what’s actually going on, and the way it’s depicted can be extremely upsetting.
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Is someone stalked?
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A character in the game is intent on tracking down people related to a certain thing
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Addiction is a main theme of the game. The protagonist and other characters require a drug to live, and so many characters are desperate to continually get the drug. Withdrawal is also depicted.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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There is one scene about halfway through the game where the main character goes to a bar and drinks with the two other patrons there. He is shown to be incredibly inebriated by the end of the night.
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Drug use is a constant theme throughout.
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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No, but you can pet it. And you can get an achievement for it!
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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At several points in the story, there is a depiction of someone tied to a chair. It happens with about four people.
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Is someone held under water?
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A guy gets drowned in a toilet.
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in a limousine scene, an antagonist may strike a nearby woman when angered, depending on dialogue choices
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Bodily Harm
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Is there body horror?
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Mainly in the hidden final boss.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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In a torture scene, a man gets something on his arm mutilated - due to the art style, whether this is his hand as a whole or specifically his fingers is unclear.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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In a scene near the end of the game, a character's sprite has visible damage to their teeth. It is small, pixelated, and somewhat subtle but clearly visible.
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Is someone burned alive?
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You can use a flamethrower as a weapon to kill people in the game. You do not have to use it, and otherwise no one else is burned.
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Is someone buried alive?
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There is a mention of burial in cement
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Is there amputation?
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It’s not in a medical context, either.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Enemies can fall down the stairs on death.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Albeit pixelated there is plenty of gore, though most of it is exclusive to cutscenes.
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Does a head get squashed?
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In one cutscene someone's head is smashed with a rock. Its pixelated, but still gruesome and violent.
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Is someone tortured?
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Torture via mutilation happens in one scene with an antagonist.
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Children
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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There’s a robot in one of the levels that’s probably just some kind of prop with prerecorded lined, but there’s the chance it’s become sapient somehow. It’s played for an extremely brief joke and not important to the plot at all. You can destroy it if you want.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Potentially once, when the player character is knocked out and tied up at an unknown location, and definitely at the end of the game, where it's revealed a sympathetic child character has been abducted with clear intent to harm.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Some of the abrupt "glitch" effects in the game are deliberately startling, but there are no jumpscares in the traditional sense.
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Gross
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Does someone spit?
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Certain dialogue options potentially have the main character spit in someone's face in defiance. The spit is not shown.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Throughout the game there are unskippable scenes between every level wherein a syringe is visually used.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There is a scene where there is a cryochamber and alot of medical monitors
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Mental Health
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In level two the main target of the level commits suicide by jumping off the balcony of his hotel room. This is skip-able but it requires killing the target before the cutscene with him can be initiated.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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An NPC in the game mentions that the player character has psychopathy. (the character you play as is violent throughout the game both in gameplay and in several cutscenes)
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The entire game’s story is essentially about how a war veteran is affected by his PTSD and how it affects his psyche. While it has a fictional context to heighten the intensity for the audience, the entirety of the game does not hold back from showing how his PTSD affects him and his grip on reality.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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A character says "not with those noodle arms" when referring to the protagonist's arms
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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In one scene you are required to get V into meltdown in order to progress. The Psychiatrist also has one of these.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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There are options to turn it up or down
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There is one level in a night club with minorly strobing lights. The game displays this warning when you start it: "Katana ZERO contains intense visual effects. If any symptoms of headache or dizziness begin to occur, we recommend turning off these effects in the options menu."
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Frequent uses of the F-Word, as well as some other swear words in russian.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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The fourth wall is broken in the sense that several visual effects are intended to visually elude to the game itself "glitching out", though this is meant to convey an in-universe sense of psychological instability.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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The main character gets called a homophobic insult in Russian once.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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The main character is described as a psychopath by what is seemingly a professional, despite the fact that a real medical professional would never use that terminology.
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Is there hate speech?
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The main character in the game is a war veteran, and the war he fought in draws heavy comparisons to the Vietnam War, called the Cromag War. There are a handful of characters who often talk about the Cromag War in a very similar way to how people in real life would discuss the Vietnam War.
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Relationships
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
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For some reason the ESRB Description says "Suggestive Themes" but I'm not sure what this is referring to.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The game is left very open ended with a lot of loose plot threads. Many characters are dead or very unhappy leading to a rather unfulfilling end. The credits reveal even more sad details about the story.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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One level is centered around fighting enemies on motorcycles; defeating an enemy causes their motorcycle to crash. There is also a helicopter crash at the end of the same stage.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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In the street chase level, the player character and enemies (all on motorcycles) all have the potential to be hit by oncoming cars. There are on-screen warnings as to where the cars will come from.
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Does a plane crash?
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At the end of a motorcycle chase-themed level, there is a boss fight with a man in a helicopter. The helicopter crashes upon the boss' defeat, though the man lives.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Throughout the game there are lots of visceral scenes. They are pixelated but gritty.
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Does someone drown?
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One of the minor characters Fa Yuan, is drowned in a toilet.
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Is there gun violence?
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Many enemies use firearms against the player. While the player character cannot use guns in the traditional sense, at one point he can pick up a gun and throw it at someone hard enough to kill them.
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