Parents Guide 2 Games: Video Games New Releases Feb 28th 2017

Hello and Welcome to Parents guide to games. The games on this list are coming out the week of February 28th 2017. We will be covering all the games coming out for the Nintendo Switch later this week.

Horizon Zero Dawn

(PS4)

Rating: Teen

Content Descriptors: Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Blood, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence

This is an action role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hunter surviving through a post-apocalyptic world. Players guide Aloy as she learns to hunt robotic creatures and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to injure and kill machines, boar, and occasional human enemies. Animals and humans emit small puffs of red blood when struck; one sequence depicts an abandoned camp with large blood stains on rocks and trees. The game contains a brief reference to sexual material. During the course of the game, characters sometimes reference controlled substances. Swear words appear in dialogue.

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns

(3DS)

Rating: Everyone 10 and up

Content Descriptors: Alcohol Reference, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violent References

This is a farming simulation/role-playing game in which players can grow crops, care for animals, and interact with other farmers and friends. While the majority of game involves task completion, some text contains a storyline referencing violence. Some scenes contain suggestive dialogue. The game also allows players to make wine from grapes and other fruit.

Torment: Tides of Numenera

(PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Rating: Mature

Content Descriptors: Blood, Language, Sexual Themes, Violence

This is a role-playing game in which players assume the role of the Last Castoff, a mind that cheats death by hopping between bodies over time. As players explore environments and interact with characters, they engage in turn-based combat using swords, clubs, crossbows, and magic to defeat fantasy creatures and human enemies. Players select their attack moves and intensity from a menu as characters battle during brief cutscenes; some attacks result in splashes of blood. Cutscenes depict larger amounts of blood: a man exploding into blood after touching a machine; a man's head exploding into blood splatter; a cyst-like chamber bursting and expelling blood. Descriptive text occasionally references sexual material. The words “sh*t” and “a*shole” appear in the dialogue.