Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Will Feature Less Violence

PS3 owners hoping for a blood-soaked adventure as they hack and slash their way through Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 may have to reconsider.

Producer Yosuke Hayashi told GamesRadar they decided to cut back on the blood and gore for "conceptual" reasons.

"Each game has its own concept and with Ninja Gaiden II, the focus was on extreme violence. But with Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, we really questioned whether violence is a necessity for a game, so we decided to move away from that trend," Hayashi said through a translator.

"So the violence 'approach' is not the way we approached the development of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Being able to unlock higher levels of gore would be out of kilter with the concept of the game."

Players will quickly notice a distinct lack of blood, both on the ground and shooting out of freshly cut limbs.

What say you, readers? Is this a dealbreaker?

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