Ninja Gaiden 3 about violence, not blood and guts

"To us, there's a difference between gore and violence. Ninja Gaiden 2 was about gore. Ninja Gaiden 3 is about violence ... that feeling of cutting into bone, actually killing a person. When you cut off an arm, it just becomes an object. Ryu is fighting humans, not monsters, and we want you to feel that." - producer Yosuke Hayashi

Well, I don't think you can get much more hardcore than that...

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