The ESRB, Europe’s software content ratings board, says Mass Effect: Andromeda will contain “full nudity”, according to Bioware’s GM Aaryn Flynn.
We played four hours of Bioware’s space opera. Find out what we made of it in our Mass Effect: Andromeda preview, which sadly featured little to no banging.
Flynn tweeted the news out over the weekend.
Remember. We lost the "partial nudity" rating and got full "nudity". https://t.co/yauGf9Cnol
— Aaryn Flynn (@AarynFlynn) February 26, 2017
This is an apparent update to the ESRB’s earlier verdict of “partial nudity”, which leaked a little while ago. Retail listings for the ESRB’s age rating show it as PEGI 16, according to VG247. As a point of comparison, Austrialia’s classification board rate Andromeda Mature 15+, with “strong sex scenes and violence”.
The stronger assessment of their game’s content doesn’t seem to have troubled Bioware, with Aaryn Flynn eagerly leaping on a fan’s suggestion that non-gamers could mistake it for, ahem, “space porn”.
@Lady_Alenko @N7Follower Yes it's totally softcore space porn
— Aaryn Flynn (@AarynFlynn) February 26, 2017
He’s probably just kidding – why else reduce a wide-ranging, epic space opera to one very specific subgenre of titillating media? But Flynn insists he’s not.
We hope your PCs are in your rooms, folks.