Instantly upvoted for ingenuity.
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Depictions of criminal activities?
I thought about that, but weren’t the PEGI-12 games also full of those activities?
Desecration of graves, framing someone, constant robbing…
Guybrush openly consumes alcohol in MI2, 3, and 5. So not that.
Maybe obscene words or references to sex, drugs, etc. (I really don’t think so 
).
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More prudish people at the rating agency? 
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That may very well be.
PEGI 16
This rating is applied once the depiction of violence (or sexual activity) reaches a stage that looks the same as would be expected in real life. The use of bad language in games with a PEGI 16 rating can be more extreme, while the use of tobacco, alcohol or illegal drugs can also be present.
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So we’ll get: more violence, more realistic sexual activities (phallic nose doesn’t fit because stylized), more crude swearwords, constantly drunk Guybrush and Dread partying on the Jolly Rasta offering joints to everyone.
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Alcohol would be a surprising reason for PEGI 16… I mean, I was born in France, and I feel like we don’t really care about that. I feel like Americans are more sensitive to it. (I mean… Not really “Americans” but the American rating system.)
I’m more intrigued about the fantasy violence.
I’m actually hoping it will get dark like that ending of MI2, with Guybrush tearing off the leg of LeChuck.
This is something I’ve been missing in the other games… besides Tales, maybe. I actually like the dark parts in Tales.
Voodoo dolls that are photorealistic, with realistic violence and gore upon them.
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I would like that, actually.
It was nice to get the game after 30 years but I feel that it was received by fans with joyful but too measured reactions. I think that some controversial content might spice up the bland tones of the entire project.
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Well, the controversial content might be the ending. 
Judging by the interviews, I’m sure it will be the case.
I think the trailer focused more on adventuring to not spoil anything - and adventuring is mostly what the MI fans are looking for, IMO.
The fact that it will start at the amusement park means that something crazy will happen. I’m sure of it. Noah Falstein said it himself.
“And the thing that amazed me most I experienced in the first ten minutes of the game and I can’t talk about it because… Ron and Dave managed to do something I would have thought was impossible in terms of storytelling and they pull it off I think admirably.”
That’s what she said.
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There goes the theory that they are targeting the game to toddlers and pre-teens
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Yep. Well, actually I didn’t mean pre-teens being the main/only target, but parents of pre-teens who would play the game with their children. But I agree that the PEGI 16 doesn’t support much that hypothesis.
I was watching again the trailer to become more accustomed with the art and I thought that creating one of those “guess what’s this object” games that we organized years ago in the forum for Thimbleweed Park might result in extremely tough challenges, with this kind of art!
For example, what is this:
That’s a cocknose. I’d recognize one anywhere.
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A bear trap
A hole in one’s stocking.
WTF is this thing?
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