It Takes Two

Mild themes, violence and coarse language, online interactivity

Players control two human-like dolls which use weapons and their magical abilities against a range of fantasy characters, such as animated toys and anthropomorphised animals. The violence is non-realistic, and no blood or injuries are shown. While some enemies can be blown up, they merely disappear in the explosion without any gory details. When the players’ characters are hit, they fall over, and stars appear before they get up again. If they are defeated, they simply break apart into particles before reforming at the last save point. Sometimes the players’ characters can be pinned down by their enemies. In one scene, they are briefly held captive and are repeatedly jabbed by wasps armed with spears. They wave their arms and shout, while breaking apart and repeatedly reforming until their captors call off the attack. In one scene, the player characters are required to harm and kill another toy character. They do so in order to further their mission of attempting to escape from the fantasy world in which they’re trapped. While the violence has a purpose in the game’s narrative, and the violence is unrealistic in nature, featuring as it does toy characters, younger children may find the toy character’s frightened reaction to the violence upsetting. The game also includes infrequent use of bad language (‘shit’, ‘bloody’, ‘pissed’ and ‘goddamn it’).